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The Case For Queer Superhero Films
Michelle Rial / BuzzFeed News I was obsessed with Greek mythology when I was in middle school. Still am, really. (A lot of this had to do with the 1997 release of Disney’s Hercules.) For months, I...
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What It Means To Be A Filipino-American
I can't remember the exact moment I first realized I was Filipino-American. It was just part of who I was.Perhaps it was because I grew up in a large Filipino-American community in the San Francisco...
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8 Things No One Tells Guys With Body Image Anxiety
Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed / Olu Eletu / Via unsplash.com Body image anxiety and dysmorphia are issues that transcend gender, and not all people experience them the same way. This particular post...
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After Years Of Visiting My Dad In Prison, We Are Now Friends
Haejin Park / BuzzFeed At the security desk beyond the visitors’ centre, a man checks my fingerprints and my passport. I have arrived early, so I wait and wait and then I wait some more. A little girl...
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Can TV Make Us Not Hate Ourselves?
Photo illustration by Jared Harrell / BuzzFeed News; Photos: Jason LaVeris / FilmMagic, Maarten de Boer / Getty Images An easy way to measure the whiteness of your hometown is how you react when you...
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Here's What No One Tells You About Having Both Depression And Anxiety
Caring both too much and not at all means never winning. [Editor's note: Anxiety and depression affect everyone differently — but dealing with both is extremely common. Nearly one-half of people...
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How I Earned My Porn Star Name
Dan Meth / Via BuzzFeed In Las Vegas, I was 21. We’d been there three days, and I was learning my new name. A stranger was teaching it to me in the ballroom. The women changed their clothes again and...
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7 Essays To Read: Finding Feminism, Loss, And Having Brain Surgery While Awake
This week, Susan Grey Blue writes about parting from her right-ring Christian fundamentalist lifestyle after discovering feminism. Read that and other essays from Racked, The New Yorker, The Toast,...
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How I Learned That To Stop Cheating, I Needed To Stop Being So Cynical
Will Varner / BuzzFeed I walk along the sidewalk to a schoolroom. It is my second day in sex addiction rehab. I’m here because I cheated on my girlfriend, and I need to figure out why I would do...
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The Tale Of How I Accidentally Had A One-Night Stand With A Racist
This is the tale of how I accidentally slept with a racist, and the laughably horrible things he said to me while I lay in his bed.In July I travelled around the Cyclades with two friends, reunited...
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I Used To Be Ashamed Of My Fear. Then I Started Training As An Acrobat
Christina Chung for BuzzFeed Before my first real boyfriend broke up with me, he told me who he wished I could be: someone who would take mushrooms and stay out on the beach with him all night, who...
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What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Sex
“I thought I knew everything there was to know about having safe sex…” This spoken-word poem by Daysha Edewi captures the IRL experience of what it's like to know nothing about safe sex. "I thought I...
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I Went To An HBCU Because Of "A Different World"
Everett Back when a hashtag was just the pound sign on a telephone, the television sitcom A Different World sent a clear message that black lives mattered. The Cosby Show spin-off followed Denise...
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This Is What It's Actually Like To Live As An Anxious Person
Anxiety is a full-time occupation, y’all. Haejin Park for BuzzFeed To start the day, you lie in bed and think about every potential disaster today could bring: Haejin Park for BuzzFeed When you leave...
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My Hair, My Blackness, And Me
I fear the chatty barber.For years my hair has been short, and infrequent conditioner application means it often feels dry when it grows out even slightly. But I've just had it relaxed by Wayne, in a...
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Everything I Know About Life I Learned By Moving Back In With My Parents At...
Illustrations by Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed The weirdest thing about living with your parents is having people constantly observing your every move: “Is that a second glass of wine?” “Who’s...
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Every Day I Want To Quit Social Media
Today is the day I finally leave social media.I feel I’ve outstayed my welcome. I don’t have anything else to say. The feeling has grown in the weeks leading up to this point; I’ve seen my social...
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Meet The Blaxicans Of Los Angeles
My parents, at Los Angeles Trade Technical College in South L.A. in the 1980s. Walter Thompson-Hernandez I first learned I was a Blaxican from a DJ on Power 106 FM, a Los Angeles hip-hop station. It...
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Cooking My Grandmother's Recipes Helps Me Learn Who I Am
I don't remember the first time I ate curry goat, but I remember the last. It was at some sort of special occasion, lined up alongside the various other delicious Caribbean dishes on display. As is...
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