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7 Essays To Read: Blaxicans, Text Flirting, And "Doing It For The 'Gram"
This week, Walter Thompson-Hernandez interviewed a handful of South L.A. residents about the complexity of identifying a Blaxican. Read that and other essays from Refinery 29, The Cut, Rookie, and...
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So A Racist Came To Your Halloween Party
Here’s what to do. Christmas is depressing, Thanksgiving is exhausting, Valentine's Day is like a love letter from your heart telling you to live under a bridge. The only good holiday is Halloween. So...
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My Obsession With Other-Dimensional Witch Travel
Andrew Richard / BuzzFeed Late one night in 1960, my mother (she would have been 15 then) woke in her single bed with the blanket kicked off, sweating in spite of it being deep wintertime in...
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How To Be A Genderqueer Feminist
Charlotte Gomez / BuzzFeed I've never felt quite like a woman, but I've never wanted to be a man, either. For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be something in between. To quote Ruby Rose: I...
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18 Celebrities On Their Black College Days
Bryan Steffy / Getty What do Lionel Richie, Spike Lee, and Sean “Diddy” Combs have in common? All three entertainment icons are Oscar winners (check out Diddy’s 2011 documentary, Undefeated), and all...
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When My Childhood Bully Hit Me Up On A Gay Dating App
Pete Ryan for BuzzFeed News What does a gay man do when stuck in rural Oklahoma?In all my years as a lecherous homosexual, I have never, not even once, hooked up with someone in my hometown. The...
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Why Trans Women Have Complicated Relationships With Halloween
Angie Wang for BuzzFeed News “You look so good as a girl,” my friend Lucy said after I borrowed one of her skin-tight black mini-dresses for Halloween. “I hate you.” I looked in her full-length mirror...
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6 Questions You Seriously Need To Ask Yourself
Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed / Jeffery Swanson / Via unsplash.com Life, eh. What it's all about? We might not have the right answers, but we do have some of the right questions.BuzzFeed spoke to Mark...
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I Was On A CBC Panel And The Internet Wanted To Guess My Race
CBC News / Via youtube.com I mean, what should I have expected when Jon Kay started the segment with, “I think it should be a strict meritocracy”?On Sunday night, the CBC asked me to join a segment on...
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I Rewatched "Charlie's Angels" With My Middle School Best Friends 15 Years Later
Alex (Lucy Liu), Natalie (Cameron Diaz), and Dylan (Drew Barrymore) in Charlie's Angels. Darren Michaels/Columbia Pictures/Newsmakers It was November 2000, and I was in fifth grade. My new pastime was...
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After My Transition, I Stopped Liking Men From Gay Porn Fantasies
Ben King for BuzzFeed News A couple of years ago I found myself messaging guys on OkCupid, asking if anyone wanted to see a matinee of Twelfth Night with me at 2 that same afternoon. I had lined up...
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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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I Moved Back To My Parent's House At 29, And It Wasn't The End Of The World
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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How I Learned Rory Gilmore Isn't The Perfect Role Model
Warner Bros. Television / Via Netflix When I was 16 years old, I wrote and saved a digital sticky note on my computer desktop titled "Reasons You Should Be More Like Rory Gilmore." I'd been watching —...
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Volunteering At An Abortion Clinic Made Me Lose Patience With The Abortion...
Haejin Park / BuzzFeed The hardest thing I’ve ever done is carry a sobbing 14-year-old rape survivor from the door of a women’s health clinic to the door of the van that would take her back to a...
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What It's Really Like To Be An Editorial Assistant In Publishing
The following is excerpted from the new reprint of My Misspent Youth, a collection of essays originally published in 2001. Charlotte Gomez / BuzzFeed Why can’t book publishing be the way it is in...
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I Don't Need To Choose Between Black And White, And Neither Does My Hair
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed The tangle of blonde-streaked curls that sprouts from my scalp baffled my parents from the very beginning. They were somewhere between my black mom’s tightly wound Afro and my...
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19 Ways To Definitely Look Like You've Got Your Shit Together
GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, MONICA. Carry around a yoga mat. Yoga mats are hella light, and easy to carry. Plus, if you're carrying a yoga mat around, no one will judge you for buying three pints of ice...
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I Forgot To Find My Husband At A Black University
Chris Kindred for BuzzFeed News “I’m going to Howard to find a husband.”I remember saying this to a group of friends my senior year of high school, as we spent yet another lunch period musing over our...
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9 Times I Cried
unsplash.com 1. 1994. I was 11, in my first year of high school, playing football on the school fields. I was awarded a penalty. A group of older kids came and stood on the touchline, taunting and...
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