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What Should We Rename Columbus Day?
We’re so over Columbus. Calling it "Columbus Day" is so last century. In the past year, eight more cities abolished calling the holiday by that name. Russell Contreras / AP
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Pursuing Happiness As A Trans Woman Of Color
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It's Not Just You: Giant Corporate Mergers Are Incredibly Boring
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How I Earned My Porn Star Name
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Can TV Make Us Not Hate Ourselves?
An easy way to measure the whiteness of your hometown is how you react when you see other brown people.My parents are Indian immigrants, and they raised me in a pocket of Canada known for its...
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What It's Like To Write The Most Hyped Book Of The Year
City on Fire is one of the year’s biggest books — and I mean that literally. Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel clocks in at a massive 944 pages long, spanning nine characters wrestling with their sense of...
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Here's What No One Tells You About Having Both Depression And Anxiety
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Everything I Learnt About My Body Through Playing Sport
Big does not mean bad. Hi. This is me. I'm a 5-foot-8-inch, 16-stone human being and this is what I look like. Rebecca Hendin/Iona St Joseph/BuzzFeed I've always had things I want to achieve, and...
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Priyanka Chopra's Accent Is Helping Me Solve My Biggest Identity Crisis
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My IUD And Me: A Lesbian Love Story
BuzzFeed News; Getty (2) I go to a male gynecologist. I have a theory that guy gynos have to overcompensate so extremely — in order to hold onto the small number of patients they’d likely first nabbed...
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How The Hole In My Heart Almost Killed Me
Haejin Park / BuzzFeed It’s six in the morning on New Year’s Day and Ava cries from the crib, which means my wife says something to me like, “Your turn,” and I say something whiny like, “Bottle,...
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Selena Gomez's "Good For You" And The Rise Of "Indie Pop Voice"
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7 Essays To Read: Befriending Your Incarcerated Dad, Male-Brides, And Lamar Odom
This week, Georgia Brown describes growing up with an incarcerated father and how they’ve become friends over the years. Read that and other essays from Fusion, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and more. "How...
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The New Genre Of Trans Women's Memoirs: Lives Beyond Our Identities
From left to right: Jan Morris, Deirdre McCloskey, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Janet Mock, Zoe Dolan, and Juliet Jacques. David Levenson (Getty Images), U Chicago Press, James Bowdoin, Michael Loccisano...
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I Was A Fundamentalist Christian Until I Discovered Feminist Writers
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What It's Like Having PPD As A Black Woman
Melody Newcomb for BuzzFeed The women in my family are black and carved from stone. Solid, they are relics unearthed from generations calcified in domestic servitude: slaves, cooks, maids, nannies,...
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Is “God” A Trigger Word?
Since leaving his Michigan megachurch to tour with Oprah Winfrey, pastor Rob Bell, pictured, talks about God a lot less. Mat Hayward / Getty Images If you think God is dead, you’re still welcome at...
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Why You Should Be Cynical About Justin Trudeau's Win
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau delivers a speech at Liberal election headquarters in Montreal, Que. Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press Campaigns are inherently cynical. They trade on the worst of...
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24 Twentysomethings On What It’s Like To Be In Debt
“The worst thing I ever did was apply for a credit card.” Charlotte Gomez / BuzzFeed During uni I somehow rinsed my overdraft despite working throughout most of it. In my second year, I didn't have a...
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