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How An Atheist Answered Her Daughter's Question About God
What I told my 9-year-old when she finally asked. Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed "How do we know there's no God?" My 9-year-old daughter, the youngest of my three children, was doing her math homework in the...
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Why Rachel Dolezal Needed To Construct Her Own Black Narrative
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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The Duggars, In Touch Magazine, And The Future Of Tabloid Journalism
In Touch Earlier this year, a woman named Tandra Barnfield posted a picture of herself and her wife kissing outside of the Duggar house — setting of the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting — as a protest...
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What Most People Don't Know About Sign Language
The Tribe Drafthouse Films One Friday night in high school, my friends Emily, Jen, and I curled up on Emily's couch watching Four Weddings and a Funeral. During the scene where Hugh’s character and...
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37 Difficult Questions From My Mixed-Race Son
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Why I Quit Working In Nail Salons
Bebeto Matthews / AP A New York Times investigation into New York City nail salons shed light on the exploitation behind $10 manicures — low pay, racial discrimination, health hazards — as well as the...
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I Fell For The Perfect Guy, But Not For His Open Relationship
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed Life Love, to me, is simple. Love is a man who will stay over after sex (without being asked). A man who will drive on our road trips to national parks, but let me navigate. A...
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Rachel Dolezal Is Abusing The Language Of Trans Activists To Justify Her Actions
Nicholas K. Geranios / Via Associated Press “I was drawing portraits with the black crayon instead of the peach crayon.”Hearing Rachel Dolezal say these words in her interview with the Today show’s...
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How I Came To Jesus On Global Warming
In the days long before the plane hit the Pentagon, I rode a little minibus every morning that let me off at the massive building’s south entrance, flashed my badge at the door, and began a long...
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How My Father Raised Me Through Silence
“Saan ka na?”“Pauwi na.”And that’s it. If you looked at my text history with my old man, 90% of it would consist of this and its variations. He’d ask where I am; I’d answer truthfully. He wouldn’t...
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My Dad Was Amazing To Me, Just Not To My Sister
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed Toward the end of their decades-long marriage, my hurt, angry mother was looking for some way — any way — to break the bond I had with my father."You realize she's going to get...
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U.S. Latinos Need To Get Loud About The Dominican Republic
Ricardo Rojas / Reuters As the Dominican Republic begins what has been called a “vicious, slow-motion pogrom” on black Dominicans and Dominicans of Haitian descent — stripping them of their...
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10 Must-Read Essays On Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Dolezal’s deception has generated a ton of thoughtful writing. Here are some of the best essays that touch on identity and what it means to be black. "Black Like Her" — The New Yorker Rachel...
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A Handy Guide To Gentrification
“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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Kristen Stewart's Dating Life And The Last Tabloid Taboo
Is it really “outing” if she was never hiding it in the first place? Kristen Stewart and Alicia Cargile. Haco Kapp Wahs / AKM-GSI When she was dating Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart's life seemed...
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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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7 Essays To Read This Week: Anti-Blackness, Amy Winehouse, And Fathers
This week, Daniel José Older urged U.S. Latinos to speak up about the anti-blackness and injustice taking place in the Dominican Republic. Read that and other essays from The Atlantic, The Washington...
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The Year I Stopped Celebrating Father's Day
Illustration by Marina Muun for BuzzFeed Exactly 10 years ago, my family left my father. It was Father’s Day.I was 17. We’d entered a crescendo in my father’s history of emotional abuse, substance...
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After I Came Out, I Thought My Dad And I Would Never Be Close
Illustration by Tran Nguyen for BuzzFeed Like many dads, mine loves family photos. He employs the classic dad move of lining us up and refusing to let anyone else grab the camera. “I don’t need to be...
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Ten Times I Knew I Loved You
Happy 10-year anniversary, Sarge. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed 1. It's Feb. 14, 2005, and I am 15 years old. I'm standing by a row of lockers just down the hall from the cafeteria, waiting for the last few...
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