Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
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Posted inEditor's Pick
Song of Songs
Examining the music of the female orgasm and the orgasmic language of music.
Posted inNonfiction
The Lasting Effects of the Lolita Complex
Lacy Warner examines the downward turn of actress Dominique Swain’s career, and how the trouble began the moment she grew up.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism
The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A True (Non-Hierarchical, Shared) Love
Journalist Mithila Phadke navigates polyamory while falling in love for the first time.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
La Otra
When a woman and her daughter moved in next door, Jaquira Díaz found her world was suddenly turned upside down.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
This is How You Say Goodbye
After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
This is How You Say Goodbye
After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
An Education in Doubt
In her memoir ‘Educated,’ Tara Westover studies herself to safety, but books can’t rescue her from the memories of sustained violence.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Writing
Use and Abuse
Amy Long on how it feels to fight for the man you don’t want.
