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Theses on Hating
Hate!
Lara Langer Cohen and Brian Connolly
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June 16, 2015
3
Hating is underloved. It loses out to the more presentable avidities: desire, eagerness, delight. To be a hater is to be a joyless troll....
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Essays that we, as ladies of early middle age, would like to see written*
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December 19, 2014
12
“Witty Meeting Comebacks that Indicate Your Displeasure While Concealing the (Professionally Discrediting) Whirling Dervish of Your Rage” "Throwing Money at Problems: A Justification" “Is This Sex...
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Come on, compadre. Come on!
Bodies and Minds
Claire Jarvis
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January 8, 2013
7
There is absolutely nothing about Point Break that is not wonderful. Even the bad parts (there are no bad parts). You can watch this movie...
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Silly Theory
Books You Should Read
Jordan Alexander Stein
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November 20, 2012
8
Some years ago, I found myself at 24-hour vegetarian diner in a California college town, breakfasting with a dear friend. We had ordered coffee,...
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Love in the Ruins: or, Should I Go To Grad School?
Teacher, Teacher
Pete Coviello
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November 13, 2012
22
On a late-spring day sometime in the mid-90s, I found myself sitting with a friend on a stone bench overlooking a prospect of conventional,...
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Top Seven Ladies Who Could Have Used Obamacare’s Birth Control Mandate
Bodies and Minds
Sarah Mesle
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November 2, 2012
26
Here’s a thing about my students: they cannot imagine a world without birth control. Or rather, it does not occur to them that a...
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