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These 4 Zodiacs Are About To Start A New Life Chapter In May ’23

LEO (7/23 – 8/22) Your new life chapter comes in the form of a person, Leo. There is someone you will cross paths with who could really use a person like you right at this very moment. You’re… → Read More

What Netflix’s ‘1899’ Tells Us About The Future Of Series Like ‘The OA’

Netflix’s 1899 is a peace-offering to an audience formerly known as “disgruntled OA fans”, once dismissed by the streaming giant on the alleged basis of niche taste but who now seem to represent a … → Read More

‘Tár’ Is The Latest #MeToo Movie That No One Actually Needed

Sexual harassment is wrong—period, end of sentence. No matter who is in the position of power. As a woman, it is mentally and emotionally difficult to process the sheer amount of offenses exposed i… → Read More

Here’s Why Scary Movies Aren’t Actually As Scary As You Might Think

I’m swiftly approaching my 30th birthday, and a person very close to me recently convinced me to revisit my relationship with horror films. → Read More

This Is The Kind Of Sex You Deserve

I think you deserve to enjoy how it feels when you and a partner enthusiastically consent to each other. → Read More

My ‘Mrs. America’ Knowledge Gap: Not Just A Period Piece, How The ERA Is Making Headlines Today

I knew nothing about the events of Mrs. America until I started watching the show. → Read More

Hope Floats

It is the impact I do have, however small, that I turn my focus to. The impact of an average, ordinary person. → Read More

7 Years: An Essay In The Fifth Person

But while I can divvy everything up into silly little periods to fit this equation, I know it’s nothing more than a joke for entertainment’s sake, because seven years is such an arbitrary marker of… → Read More

Here’s The Brutally Honest Truth: I Don’t Need You Anymore

What makes me feel sexy is anything that makes me feel like me. Whoever it is I want to be that day. → Read More

Me, You, And Some Other Things That Ended Up Not Mattering At All

I don’t think I’d be able to pick you out from anyone else meeting that description. → Read More

All I (A Millennial) Want For Christmas In 2018

Could cooking be as easy as they make it look in my Facebook newsfeed? → Read More

Like A Prayer Card, You’re Never Coming Back

I’ve never been good at saying things I didn’t mean. → Read More

Winters In Chicago And Wanting To Stay

I’ve gotten used to the winters here, to the rough knuckles and the wind chill. → Read More

The (Martial) Art Of Dating

So what if dating was just like karate? → Read More

I Decided To Channel My Liberal Feminist Rage Into Karate

And somewhere between now and then the world changed, and so did I. → Read More

This Is Your Love Horoscope For The Remainder Of 2018

Gemini: Gemini, you’ve been treating love like a haunted house. Sometimes closing your eyes and hiding, sometimes trying to sprint your way through to the end. → Read More

A Story About Accepting The Ordinary

I miss them when it’s sunny too, and when the weather is just kind of blah, and I’ve learned that any time is an appropriate time to be sad. → Read More

Objects Of Weight

I think we became stones in each other’s lives even though neither of us wanted it to happen. → Read More

How Each Zodiac Sign Says ‘I Love You’

Pisces have so much going on in that head of theirs, you’ll know they’re in love when they start to let you into all of those dreams and creative thoughts living up in there. → Read More

Stress, In 7 Airport Vignettes

I. It’s my first time traveling alone, and my phone doesn’t work once I land in Montréal, which means I don’t have access to the one thing I depend on explicitly to survive in this world, Google ma… → Read More