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What Our Parents Taught Us About Love And Money
Ilustration by Yao Xiao for BuzzFeed Not every child gets a trust fund. But each of us is heir to a certain set of abstract financial assets: a standard of living, an aspiration for lifestyle, mom’s...
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7 Essays To Read This Week: "Mulatto," Consent, And Visual Evidence
This week, Mat Johnson explains why he loves the term “mulatto.” Read that and other essays from Jezebel, The Toast, The Cut, the New York Times Magazine, and The New Republic. "Why You Can Kiss My...
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Vladimir Putin Is Destroying My Dream Home
Dennis Huynh/BuzzFeed Let me tell you why I love this farm.In the spring, you have these boys, all under 10, one being severely autistic, and they’ve been locked up for weeks in Amsterdam and you...
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A Childhood Spent Inside A Chinese Restaurant
Being one of the few Asians in my school was hard enough. Working at my parents’ Chinese restaurant didn’t make it any easier. Will Varner / BuzzFeed Snot gushed from my nostrils as I heaved giant...
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We Don't Talk About Mental Illness In My Family
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed A very short history of how I came to be: Before the war, my father came to America to go to college. After the war, my mother and her family came to America because there was...
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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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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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When The Family Business Is Ribald Wedding Poetry
Illustration by Kevin Valente for BuzzFeed From my dad’s side of the family I received an odd first name, a big crooked nose, and a compulsion to write and recite poetry at public gatherings. “Bad...
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Why You Can Kiss My Mulatto Ass
“The recent re-emergence 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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I Watched My Ex Fall In Love With Someone Else On Facebook
Keeping tabs on him via social media became a form of self-inflicted torture that I just couldn’t quit. Maritsa Patrinos / BuzzFeed We broke up in the parking lot of an Uno Pizzeria in Boston. He...
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Why Trans Women Care About Caitlyn Jenner's Pronouns
Vanity Fair On Monday, when Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and upcoming Vanity Fair cover, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Finally, we would be able to freely refer to her using female...
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In Defense Of "Vaguebooking"
Dennis Huynh / BuzzFeed News We read them every day in our Facebook feed. “I can’t right now,” my former student proclaims. “I don’t understand the decision-making process,” a colleague writes...
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A Childhood Spent Inside A Chinese Restaurant
Being one of the few Asians in my school was hard enough. Working at my parents’ Chinese restaurant didn’t make it any easier. Will Varner / BuzzFeed Snot gushed from my nostrils as I heaved giant...
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Vladimir Putin Is Destroying My Dream Home
Photo Illustration by BFN Design Studio / Putin: Carsten Koall / Getty Images Let me tell you why I love this farm.In the spring, you have these boys, all under 10, one being severely autistic, and...
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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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The Big Swinging Dicks Of "Entourage"
Warner Bros. The unifying visual motif of Entourage has always been the swagger: a cluster of men walking, talking, and generally plowing their way through the scenery. It’s different genre than the...
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Gay Male Sex In Film And Television Has A Lube Problem
A few weeks ago, on a horny whim, my boyfriend and I rented L’Inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake), a 2013 erotic thriller set on a nude beach that earned an X rating in France. The last gay movie...
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How TLC's Fundamentalism-As-Kitsch Hurts Women
With shows like 19 Kids and Counting and Submissive Wives’ Guide to Marriage, TLC hurts every former fundamentalist who’s been dehumanized and silenced. youtube.com Jim Bob Duggar would like you to...
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7 Essays To Read This Week: Baby Photos, "Girl Movies," And Kurt Cobain
This week, Larissa Pham wrote about growing up in a family that never spoke of mental illnesses. Read that and other essays from Pigeons and Planes, The Cut, Jezebel, and more. "I Watched My Ex Fall...
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