In this personal essay, for years after an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.
Personal Essay
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Asking For It
Surviving sexual assualt in a world content to let women disappear.
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Grief is a Jumble Word
A personal essay in which Ken Otterbourg contemplates love and loss, and what we remember when we try to forget.
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The Hotel of Multiple Realities
In this personal essay, while recovering from an aneurysm, Emily Carter Roiphe discovers the hospital houses a series of alternate realms.
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A Tale of Two Vegases
A personal essay in which Gayle Brandeis recalls two trips to Las Vegas with her mother — the second one while her mother is delusional.
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Black Disabled Wonder Women Need Love, Too
A personal essay in which Britney Wilson considers the lessons she learned while taking a risk on romance.
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The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were
Essayist Leslie Jamison visits the Breakup Museum in Zagreb, Croatia — created in 2003 after founders Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić ended their relationship — and considers what stories are told by the objects we shared with former loved ones.
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A Finder, No Longer a Keeper
Jenny Klion tries to make sense of her super power of finding lost jewelry where ever she goes, and reflects on how finding someone else’s engagement ring helped her let go of her own.
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Hierarchy of Needs
Angela Palm learns to find joy in a world filled with suffering.
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Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak
Minda Honey’s first in an original Longreads series on dating as a black woman in these times. Here, she assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her romantic life.