In Australia, cupcakes are deployed to wage holy war against halal meat.
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Playing Football to the Beat of Their Own, Literal Drummer
Gallaudet University has tensions between its deaf and hearing students, but the deaf football team brings the campus together.
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‘America’s Deaf Team’ Tackles Identity Politics
In order to survive, Gallaudet University has to blend a diverse student body from very different backgrounds: deaf culture and hearing culture. Can football players show the school how?
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When a Sibling Transitions
In Glamour, Meghan Tear Plummer reflects on her sister’s transition to her brother late in life, and wrestles with what his liberation means for their relationship.
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Explaining My Multiracial Identity (So Others Don’t Do It For Me)
Jaya Saxena’s personal essay on the complications of owning her three racial identities–white, Indian and multi-racial–and dealing with the many ways people see her, and feel entitled to define her.
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Maggie Nelson on Explaining the Spectrum of Transgender Identity
Earlier this week, for National Coming Out Day, comic actor Julie Novak performed her “one-person show,” “America’s Next Top: One Top’s Take on Life, Love, Tools and Boxes,” off-Broadway at the United Solo Festival. The show offers a funny, eye-opening take on something that has been a source of pain and discomfort, mostly in her early […]