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This Mocha-Caramel-Honey Post-Racial Fantasy Is Making Me Sick
Illustration by Judith Kim for BuzzFeed As a mixed-race woman, the defining question of my life has not been “Who am I?” but “What are you?” I get it everywhere, from all races. Recently it’s been...
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Revelations About Being Brown In A World Of White Beauty
Illustration by Linda Yan for BuzzFeed Ideas I have my father's smile. I wasn’t always sure that was a good thing. We both shared a feature, a separation between our two front teeth. It was slight...
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What The Marriage Equality Referendum In Ireland Means To Me
Dublin scene of South Great George's Street, mural by Joe Caslin. Rebecca Hendin for BuzzFeed. Two years ago, I appeared on an Irish radio show to discuss how Ireland’s gay sons had suddenly become...
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Anna Kendrick Vs. The Hollywood Type Machine
Hulton Archive / Stringer Last week, my inbox filled with links to a short but potent New York Times profile of Anna Kendrick. From a colleague: “Ugh, the cool girl act here is KILLING ME”; from a...
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When I Got Pregnant At 40, Time Slowed Down
A decade after my second son was born I found myself unexpectedly pregnant again. Will Varner / BuzzFeed An unsettling thing about e-readers is that you can't easily sense how far along you are in a...
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In Praise Of Betty Draper, Difficult Woman
AMC I woke up in the middle of last night mourning Betty Draper Francis’ imminent death. Which is a surprise, because there are so many ways to dislike her: She’s manipulative and selfish,...
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How A Chapatti Brought My Mum Back To Life
Rebecca Hendin for BuzzFeed I am standing in a takeaway shop that sells "authentic home-cooked Gujarati food", listening to the owners chat amongst themselves in the language I grew up with. I can...
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How Hollywood Taught Rebel Wilson To Lie About Her Age
JUSTIN TALLIS / Getty Images In the wake of Pitch Perfect 2’s record-breaking weekend, Rebel Wilson has been caught in a very old-fashioned sort of scandal: According to one of Wilson’s high school...
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7 Essays To Read This Week: "Bad Blood," Pop Music Stardom, And Counterculture
This week, BuzzFeed Ideas Editor Bim Adewunmi wrote a piece on the strange conformity of YouTube’s beauty tutorials. Read that and other essays from The Atlantic, The Fader, Grantland, and more. "How...
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"Mad Max" Is A Feminist Playbook For Surviving Dystopia
Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. If you're going to bring feminist propaganda to the masses, there are worse ways than in a giant exploding truck covered with knives. In case you haven’t seen Mad Max: Fury...
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Welcome To The Inheritance Issue
Illustration by Boyoun Kim for BuzzFeed Most people expect no material solace in the death of their parents. Inheritance kicks in at birth, and it is simultaneously more nebulous than money...
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What Is A Woman's Wardrobe Worth?
Susie Cagle My grandmother was one of the beige ladies of Santa Barbara, a rare and particular breed of self-made California woman with scotch in her liquor cabinet, Didion and Butler on her...
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Weighing The Promises Of Big Genomics
Illustration by Daniel Fishel for BuzzFeed News “Success in sight: The eyes have it!” Thus the scientific journal Gene Therapy greeted the news, in 2008, that an experimental treatment was restoring...
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Those Who Leave Somalia Need Remittance Too
Illustration by Kevin VQ Dam for BuzzFeed We’d get the most calls starting two weeks before Ramadan. Advancements in long-distance calling made shouting unnecessary, but my parents shouted anyway, as...
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Why You Can Kiss My Mulatto Ass
“The recent reemergence of mulatto identity isn’t about race, it’s about actively acknowledging a multiethnic reality in a simplistically racialized world.” Maritsa Patrinos / BuzzFeed Yo, I'm a...
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How Evangelical Churches Protect Abusers Like Josh Duggar
Danny Johnston / AP Although my parents currently attend an Episcopalian church, swear, and drink a lot of wine, my family resembles the independent Baptist Duggars — America’s most famous...
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I Want To Remember My Father's Life, Not Just His Death
My father was killed in the 1994 Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi when I was only 5. It’s getting harder to remember what he was like when he was alive. Alice Mongkongllite/ BuzzFeed A year ago, a...
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"Mad Max" Is A Feminist Playbook For Surviving Dystopia
Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. If you're going to bring feminist propaganda to the masses, there are worse ways than in a giant exploding truck covered with knives. In case you haven’t seen Mad Max: Fury...
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This Mocha-Caramel-Honey Post-Racial Fantasy Is Making Me Sick
Illustration by Judith Kim for BuzzFeed As a mixed-race woman, the defining question of my life has not been “Who am I?” but “What are you?” I get it everywhere, from all races. Recently it’s been...
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A Foolproof Plan To Spread Love And End All Wars Forever
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed I’ve got a family reunion coming up in a couple of weeks. As you might expect from a New Yorker named Jacobs, my reunion will have more than a minyan of Jews of Eastern European...
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