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My Brief Career As A Waitress Dominatrix
A high-tipping regular was obsessed with getting bossed around. The customer is always right, right? Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed "Swab the deck, err…matey." I said, disguising my stuttering with the growl...
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Why Cultural Significance Is The Best Job I Ever Had
“My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.” Andrea Hickey / BuzzFeed For many years — nearly 20 — I have lived far away from many of the people I love best. But we still feel...
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Welcome To The Carers' Issue
Sian Butcher / BuzzFeed There are 6.5 million people in the UK caring – unpaid – for family and loved ones. That figure will rise (increasing by 3.4 million over the next 30 years) over the next few...
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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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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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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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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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8 Awkwardly Hilarious Intricacies Of Being Kept Alive By Family And Friends
The thing about relying on loved ones for your care is: It can get seriously awkward. I'm 23 years old, and I was born with a lovely disease that causes my muscles to waste away as I get older. If...
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The Time I Dabbled In Do-It-Yourself Dentistry
Maritsa Patrinos / BuzzFeed I lost a tooth while eating pizza at work. "Lost" as in, like, it was nowhere to be found.It was already a bad day. I was preparing Christmas merchandise for the boutique...
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The Straight White Man’s Guide To The 21st Century
Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed For the modern gent, the 21st century can be an absolute ruddy minefield. A chameleonic landscape of rights, wrongs, and rules where the unknowing and unwilling are met with...
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Professional Carers Talk Honestly About The Reality Of Their Jobs
For professional care workers the pressure can be extreme, and there is as much joy as frustration to be found in their work. Sian Butcher / BuzzFeed I've been in care work for more than five years...
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As A Black Lesbian, Queerness Is Not Made In My Image
Dennis Huynh / BuzzFeed I am unable to marry my Blackness and my queerness in my mind. I will pull myself apart.It starts superficially. I clutch at my hair and despair at the frizz and kink and curl....
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Gentrification Mad Libs
“Well, it is crazy cheap to live there…” Illustration by Jan Buchczik for BuzzFeed *(or choose one of the following) a) Phoenix b) Modesto c) Wichita d) Fort Lee e) Purseville, a tiny town upstate...
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What Living In The U.S.S.R. As A Kid Taught Me About Parenting
Will Varner/BuzzFeed Estonian kids had a lot of freedom in 1990. At school, we would take off during our lunchtime to eat in a café, or just to roam around the city together. If a teacher didn’t show...
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7 Essays To Read This Week: Black Joy, God, And When You "Literally Can't Even"
This week, Alex Andreou wrote about caring for his mother with Alzheimer’s for BuzzFeed Idea’s Carers Issue. Read that and others from The New Inquiry, Hazlitt, The New Yorker, and more. "Caring for...
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Adventures In Queer Girl Tinder
Monique Steele for BuzzFeed The worst part of every Tinder date I ever went on was the moment before the date actually started. I hated scanning bars, trying to identify a girl with whom I’d exchanged...
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Why Rachel Dolezal Needed A Narrative Of Oppression
In order to pass as black, Dolezal took advantage of the black community’s long tradition of inclusion regardless of skin tone. Nicholas K. Geranios / Via Associated Press In 1895, when Justice Henry...
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My Handyman, My Soap Star
Like a lot of people these days, I know how to Spotify but not spackle. Living in New York with a superintendent in the building, this wasn’t a problem. But a decade ago when I moved into my own house...
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My Mother's Dementia Gave Me The Best Birthday I Ever Had
Alex Andreou's mother, Maria, working at the Mykonos Museum in Greece in 1962. Alex Andreou The morning of my 44th birthday I wake up to no breakfast in bed, no cards on the doormat, no presents and...
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Here's How To Actually Explain Death To A Child
And it doesn’t involve going to sleep for a really long time. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed At The Sharing Place, children who have lost parents and other family members come together during bimonthly...
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