When You Don’t Remember The Name Of Someone You’ve Slept With

Sure, I may remember the names of everyone else I slept with and I might even know the general ballpark of their birthdays, but for the most part, I didn’t know them in a way that I know my closest friends. It now seems easier to open your legs for someone than cry on their shoulder in a cab.

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The Different Types Of Feminists There Are

Angry Feminists believe in equality but hate lots of women—basically anyone who is pretty, wears heels, or laughs a lot. Actually, a large part of Angry Feminist culture is the rejection of feminine things for the sake of rejecting feminine things.

Johanna de Silentio is the combined effort of Sarah Heuer and Chrissy Stockton. They are best friends who drink ...
 

On Hiccoughs

In 2007, a 16-year-old Florida girl named Jennifer Mee received national press when she hiccoughed for over a month straight. After her hiccoughs went away, Today Show host Meredith Vieira asked Mee rhetorically—or so we thought—”What are you going to do for attention now?” Her answer became evident when headlines later read something like, “Hey, Remember That Hiccough Girl? Yeah, Police Say She Just Killed A Guy.”

Ben Kassoy has coauthored two books of humorous nonfiction and recently completed a series of six children's books. ...

If We Could Be Boring

We were talking about relationships in my living room, over Aperol drinks with ice cubes and cigarettes off the fire escape. The ethereal echo of something lo-fi and chillwave set the mood. The heat lifted its oppressive finger, ever so slightly, in the early evening glow.

Daly studies Race, Space + Visual Culture at NYU’s Gallatin school. She is a member of MAKESHIFT COLLECTIVE, for ...

Coffee Talks In The Office Break Room

The coffee machine is no drip filter. It is sleek and black. It has curves like a European sports car. The choices of brew are a tribute to democratic choice. Hot or cold, steamed or black, tea or coffee—the machine mixes and matches these possibilities to suit each individual’s point of view.

She likes the idea of writing near water, though so far has mostly written at a kitchen table.
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