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The Victims Are The Heroes Of "Missoula"
Andrea Hickey / BuzzFeed / Thinkstock In May 2012, I spent a weekend in Missoula, Montana, after the Justice Department announced that it would examine the city’s handling of sexual assault...
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Could I Have Been Jailed For My Miscarriage?
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed When I heard that an Indian-American woman named Purvi Patel had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the contradictory charges of feticide and neglect of a child — for...
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The Bride Paradox Of "Four Weddings"
Via YouTube I love weddings. I’ve never been one for religion, or for mindless adherence to tradition, but when two people decide to dress a little over the top, say things a little too sappy to each...
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This Public Shaming Is Not Like The Other
Author Jon Ronson instagram.com We are living in a cultural moment in which people with the normiest of normative identities — those jealously guarding an armful of poker chips in the game of social...
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What Happens When We Treat Anonymous Stories Of Sexual Assault Like Gossip Items
Justine Zwiebel / BuzzFeed News Like many sexual assault victims, Ariel Norling didn’t go to the police after her alleged attack. Instead she wrote everything down — described being sexually harassed...
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What I Learned From Spending My Entire Twenties In Debt
Sian Butcher/BuzzFeed "I want to share what I learned about spending my entire twenties in debt," I said to a friend in the pub when we sneaked in a quick drink before dinner at a new restaurant we'd...
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The Struggle To Reclaim Parenting
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes. Since then, I've become unfortunately all too well-versed in...
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What It's Like Speaking A Different Language From Your Parents
James Chapman/BuzzFeed In Bengali – the first language of my parents – I cannot read, distinguish left or right, or describe different kinds of love. I cannot count above 10, recite the alphabet, or...
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The '90s Asian Sitcom That Shows How Far We Haven't Come
Ian Chen, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler, and Constance Wu in Fresh Off the Boat. Ron Tom / ABC "You're not going to become actors," Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) scoffed last night on Fresh Off the...
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The Year My Fiancé Left Me And I Watched All Of "Law & Order"
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed In 1990, the year Law & Order premiered, 87 people burned to death inside New York City’s Happy Land Social Club when the coat check girl’s ex-boyfriend doused the stairs...
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The Victims Are The Heroes Of "Missoula"
Andrea Hickey / BuzzFeed / Thinkstock In May 2012, I spent a weekend in Missoula, Montana, after the Justice Department announced that it would examine the city’s handling of sexual assault...
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Early In My Transition, Two Teenagers Helped Me Embrace My Identity
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed I walk past vendors selling rainbow everything and feel the first warm drizzle of rain on my face. Today, thousands have congregated on Duke’s East Lawn for North Carolina’s...
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An Article About Black Women Shouldn't Have To Come With A Warning Label
What do we have to do in order to be just people? Chelsey Pippin/BuzzFeed For a woman who has made a career out of her love for culture – and consumes so much of it – it would not make sense for me to...
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7 Essays You Need To Read This Week: Free-Range Parenting, Counting Calories,...
This week, one mother wrote about her struggle to reclaim parenting and her reflections on her own childhood. Read that and other essays from The Fader, The Frisky, and Rookie. "How an Anime Series...
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How An Anime Series Helped Me Recognize My Depression
The world of Paranoia Agent can seem overwhelming and monstrous. But it looked very familiar to me. Andrea Hickey / BuzzFeed Depression is large. I don't mean this in the sense that depression as a...
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The Lessons We've Learned From Our Boomer Moms
The story I’ve always told myself and others about my mom is relatively straightforward: She could’ve been a scientist. She was a chemistry star. She would’ve gone to grad school, if she hadn’t gotten...
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The Struggle To Reclaim Parenting
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes. Since then, I've become unfortunately all too well-versed in...
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Caring About India’s Women Means Giving Up Our Defensiveness
Mike Coppola / Via Getty Images This past March, a British documentary about the horrific 2012 gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, India’s Daughter, was poorly received here at home. As documented by...
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"Ex Machina,""Gone Girl," And The Myth Of The Perfect Girl
The problem with the perfect girl is that she doesn’t exist. And is a murderer! (Warning: Spoilers for Gone Girl and Ex Machina within.) Alicia Vikander as Ava in Ex Machina. Universal Pictures...
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When A Lesbian Gets Sober
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed “How will anyone know I’m a lesbian if I don’t drink?”I asked my therapist this eight years ago, pretzeled into a knot of anxiety on her couch in the fragile months of my new...
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