Jennifer Berney explores how queer families challenge traditional notions of heredity and paternity.
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Why Did a Young Woman Broadcast Her Death?
An 18-year-old Parisian woman streams her suicide on social media.
Why We Fell for Clean Eating
On the rise of orthorexia — “an obsession with consuming only foods that are pure and perfect” — and the burgeoning industry that feeds it.
Alternative Reality: An Alt-Weekly Reading List
Nine excellent stories discovered in U.S. alt-weekly newspapers.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man
When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
Insomnia: To Pursue Sleep So Hard You Become Invigorated By the Chase
Insomnia is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.
Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX
As a high schooler and new mom, Jane Rubel didn’t consider herself a feminist. She just knew that if husbands and fathers were eligible to play high school basketball, she should have been, too.
‘I Saw My Countrymen Marched Out of Tacoma’
It started in Eureka, then it spread. Up and down the Pacific Coast, white mobs turned on Chinese-Americans.
True Roots
One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.
