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Finally, A Black Best Friend Character Who Doesn't Suck
Universal Pictures By the time I’d heard of Amy Schumer, the comedian was already mid-backlash. A brief crescendo of idolatry for Schumer’s feminist satire was followed by even louder accusations of...
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Who We Love And Who We Eat
Cecil the lion’s death has sparked an outrage I’ve been feeling all my life, but I’m not sure how I feel about it. Will Varner / BuzzFeed My parents rented the movie Gorillas in the Mist for me when I...
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In Ferguson, Resistance Is Messy — And More Important Than Ever
Rick Wilking / Reuters Resistance is messy. As my T-shirt, shorts, and once all-white sneakers can attest, I mean that literally.I was sprinting through the dirt-turned-mud that separated the sidewalk...
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I Talked To My Cheating Ex After Finding His Email In The Ashley Madison Hack
Conversations like mine will begin happening all around the world starting today. I couldn't help myself. When I heard, last night, that the data dump from the Ashley Madison hack was online and...
View ArticleWhy I Facebook Stalk Dead Black Teenagers
All we need now is a name. Nobody waits for a mugshot or allows media outlets to choose a photo of the slain anymore. The name of the victim — so often black, so often unarmed — is all we need to...
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What Happens When You Try To Stay Silent For 10 Days
Staying silent for a 10-day retreat was as hard as it was rewarding. Hallie Bateman "It's one of the hardest things I've ever done," Sara says, "but worth it." My college roommate has just returned...
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7 Essays To Read: Keeping An Ex-Husband's Last Name, Tan Lines, And...
This week, Jill Gallagher explains why she opted to keep her ex-spouse’s last name after their divorce. Read that and others from Medium, Gawker, Broadly, and more. "After My Husband Left, I Kept His...
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When A Brown Actor Plays A White Character, Who Really Wins?
Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson. USA Network / Christopher Saunders/USA Network USA Network’s breakout hit Mr. Robot (ending its first season Wednesday) gets so much right. It gets the big things right...
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Why I Let My Kids Watch "Inappropriate" TV
Getty / Comedy Central / AMC / Amazon / Netflix / FX Networks I was watching Season 1 of Transparent with our kids when I wondered for a second if I should explain what a dildo is and who might use...
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Fat Monica Was The TV Role Model I Never Expected
Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed / NBC Universal The first thing we watched on the 1980s Trinitron someone had given my boyfriend was Friends. It was a giant, heavy, wood-effect thing, and when we got it we...
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I Talked To My Cheating Ex After Finding His Email In The Ashley Madison Hack
Conversations like mine will begin happening all around the world starting today. I couldn't help myself. When I heard, last night, that the data dump from the Ashley Madison hack was online and...
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After My Husband Left, I Kept His Last Name
Hannah K. Lee for BuzzFeed News Sometimes I forget I used to be married. It’s pretty easy: I live with roommates in Boston, where I lived before I was married, and I’m deep in the romantic dystopia of...
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I Was The Face Of Disaster Tourism In Post-Katrina New Orleans
Lee Celano / AFP / Getty Images I came to New Orleans from France in 1975, when I was 21 years old, for what was supposed to be a one-year teaching assignment at a city public school. To make extra...
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Where's My Lesbian Friend Group?
An enviable Planet hang. Showtime The first time I binge-watched The L Word, cooped up in my dorm during a sleepy summer working on my college campus, I was dumbstruck. The clunky plotlines,...
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How Oliver Sacks Helped Introduce The World To Autism
Autism and its many forms may be widely discussed today, but it wasn’t until the famed neurologist and writer told the story of identical twins George and Charles Fin in his book The Man Who Mistook...
View ArticleThoughts You Have Dealing With The Police As A Person Of Color
If I die today, will anyone even care? BuzzFeed Yellow / Via youtu.be
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Growing Pains In The Movement For Black Lives
Rick Wilking / Reuters Resistance is messy. As my T-shirt, shorts, and once all-white sneakers can attest, I mean that literally.I was sprinting through the dirt-turned-mud that separated the sidewalk...
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The Failed Logic Of "Trans Panic" Criminal Defenses
Demonstrators seeking justice for Laude during a protest in Manila in October 2014. Romeo Ranoco / Reuters The ongoing case against U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton for the murder of transgender...
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A Conversation With Claudia Rankine
Lynzy Billing / BuzzFeed Claudia Rankine has had a hell of a year. Her most recent book, Citizen: An American Lyric, has been a barnstorming critical success – winning, among others, the National Book...
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Will These Lukewarm Superhero Movies Ever End?
20th Century Fox On the eve of Fantastic Four's debut, director Josh Trank apologized for his own movie.“A year ago, I had a fantastic version of this,” he wrote (and later deleted) on Twitter. “But...
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