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Uppers & Downers
UPPERS: 1) When it comes to issues of the body, one of the most significant topics currently on people’s minds is that of reproductive rights. Abortion has been on several state ballots since the repeal of Roe V Wade last year, and each time abortion rights advocates have won sweeping victories. Score one for the…
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Simpsons>Depression
I absolutely love my Simpsons tattoo. In 2019 I was going through a bout of depression. This was around the same time Disney+ was created. I decided to finally watch a show I had heard so much about, The Simpsons. From the very first episode I was hooked! The Simpsons brought so much joy and…
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Touched by the ‘TISM
TikTok has become *the* forum for challenging the definition of autism, for questioning what it “really looks like” in life – especially for women and people of color – and for gathering resources to make sense of overlooked, atypical bodies and experiences.
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The Joy of Movement
Outside, the world is overheating, people are busily doom scrolling, and there’s a pervasive sense of summer malaise that can’t seem to break. Inside, the sounds of the Bee Gees pump into an old art deco pool in the middle of Bed-Stuy and a room full of people get ready to dance. There is not…
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Dynamite + Budweiser
“4th of July, 2001. I was messing around with a quarter stick of dynamite. Not a good combination with budweiser.”
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The Secret DJ – An Interview w/ the Secret DJ
What is ‘the secret dj’? Hi Ian, nice to chat. I guess the short answer is “I am”, but the longer answer is I worked for the UK political satire magazine ‘Private Eye’ now and then in an extremely light capacity but it inspired me greatly to take that attitude and apply it to my…
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The Power of a Dollar (But Make it Fashion)
A lot of the systems operating in the world seem like they are terminally locked in a viscous death spiral, destined to drag us into our own demise. Most days, humanity feels like a failed evolutionary experiment.
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The Cost of Modern Love
I started puzzling over what to write about for this money issue around Valentine’s Day this year – a day on which I happened to read an article in The Cut by Esther Perel, a Belgian psychotherapist focused on unpacking the truths about modern relationships vs the normative ideals… and one of my very favorite…
