Andrew Kay found himself on the dating scene and the academic job market at the time time, living life as one long interview.
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Poets Talk to Poets about the Border Wall
In this roundtable, poets from around this world discuss the role borders play in their lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Food, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
Tell Me What Donut You Prefer, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are
Have you ever thought really hard about donuts? Like, 7,000 words hard? Keaton Lamle did.
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Hot, Sticky & Sweet
Who knew you could learn so much about Southern identity just by thinking — really hard — about doughnuts?
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Kimberly, No Longer With the Good Hair
How one woman finally styled her hair in a way that determined who she was and demanded that her loving grandmother accept her decision as a sign of strength.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Travel, Writing
Choosing Mother India
“People insist that only an idiot would move from the land of the dollar to the 68-times-weaker rupee.”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Why Should a Website Decide Where You’re From?
In Real Life Mag, information accessibility and data-use expert Zara Rahman explores the coercive power of the location drop-down menu.
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Where Are You Really From
Many people aren’t from one place and are in constant motion. So why must we choose one nationality from a drop-down menu?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On Being Trans, Disabled and Using the Washroom: ‘I have a right to exist safely in public spaces.’
Christian McMahon so rightly reminds us that everyone has “a right to exist safely in public spaces.”
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Beauty Shopping With My Mother, A Former Cultural Revolution Red Guard
A former beauty editor reflects on the differences between the definition of beauty in America and in China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where an “unadorned woman was a symbol of liberation from a patriarchal capitalist system.”