5 Things Women Should Stop Being Afraid Of

Bugs suck. They look like scary little aliens who want to kill us and eat our remains, and they’re dirty/gross. But they’re everywhere, and there’s nothing we can do about it. I think it’s been scientifically proven that if bugs stopped existing, people would stop existing, so suck it up and deal.

I'm a co-creator/author of White Girl Problems by Babe Walker, which you should read. I haven't had sex in a ...

You’re Not Allowed To Have Feelings

If you have a car, a job, a house, some combination of the two or all three, your life is a dream made of spun sugar and unicorn farts and you have no right to ever be sad.

Mila Jaroniec lives and writes in New York. You can read her super short fiction on various places on the internet ...
 

11 Ways Childhood Has Changed Since The 90s

Now, Sketchers as we knew them are a thing of the past. Instead, toddlers can get their Diane Von Furstenberg fix at Gap, and grow out of it two weeks later. Oscar de la Renta designs for children. A baby walked in a Chanel runway show. I can’t even afford Chanel lipstick.

As is customary for most 20-somethings in New York City, she has a blog about the experience of post-college ...

A Family Roadtrip To Atlanta ’96

That night, a bomb went off in downtown Atlanta. We awoke to full-coverage on the news. Over one hundred injured, at least 2 dead.

Paul graduated from Evergreen State College. He lived and worked in Portland, Oregon for a bit, but now resides ...

Fiona Apple’s “Anything We Want” Under The Microscope

It is so quiet. The tempo is slow. The vocal melody is ridiculously simple: no big reaches, no jumping around the scale, no affectations. It’s the antithesis of “Hot Knife,” which may be the boldest of Apple’s songs, the most outgoing, the most “unlike” her.

Liz is a writer based in New York City. She has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Pitchfork, New York ...
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