List: Faves | Curated by Leigh K. Hoopes

Dec 30, 2022
42 stories
FavesFavorite pieces from my favorite writers
Ed Zitron
The Year Of Growing UpI felt very little at the beginning of 2022.
Dec 29, 2022
Dec 29, 2022
Jude Ellison S. Doyle
God Save Us From the Sexy CatholicsWhite supremacy, but make it Goth.
Aug 11, 2022
8
Aug 11, 2022
8
Jude Ellison S. Doyle
“Predator” and “Prey” are Roughly the Same Amount of Woke, ActuallyOne is a scathing satire of toxic masculinity and imperialism. The other has a cute dog.
Aug 16, 2022
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Aug 16, 2022
9
Jude Ellison S. Doyle
The Softboy Must DieOn Taika Waititi, straight men in gay outfits, and why cis men are not “demolishing masculinity.”
Jul 1, 2022
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Jul 1, 2022
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Gay Mag
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Roxane Gay
Gay’s Best of 2019Some of our favorite essays this year
Jan 1, 2020
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Jan 1, 2020
1
In
Forge
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Summer Brennan
What Our Weighted Blankets Tell Us About Our Late-Capitalist AngstExistential crisis + magical thinking + Amazon Prime = the Gravity Blanket
Jan 10, 2020
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Jan 10, 2020
15
In
GEN
by
Jessica Valenti
The ‘Pro-Life’ Movement Was Always a Con‘AKA Jane Roe’ exposes how anti-abortion activism is built on mistruths, fabrications, and coercion
May 21, 2020
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May 21, 2020
26
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Heated
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Kaki Okumura
What Can the Rest of the World Learn from Japanese Food Culture?The menu is a wooden board hanging out in front of the restaurant, with just three options scrawled in black marker:
Jun 11, 2020
5
Jun 11, 2020
5
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GEN
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Leigh Stein
The End of the Girlboss Is HereThe girlboss didn’t change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.
Jun 22, 2020
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Jun 22, 2020
71
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GEN
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Jessica Valenti
Why We Can’t SleepWho can sleep during all of this?
Aug 17, 2020
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Aug 17, 2020
13
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GEN
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Jessica Valenti
White People Are Crowding the Conversation Around RaceThere’s a fine line between being an ally and making a movement all about yourself
Sep 11, 2020
22
Sep 11, 2020
22
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Post-It DreamsIt was 2008 when everything changed. Rather, it was 2008 when I started to change everything.
Sep 24, 2020
12
Sep 24, 2020
12
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GEN
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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
‘Man-Bashing’ Is the New, Trending Double StandardThe Internet has rebelled against man-bashing on social media — which brings us right back to the woman-bashing status quo
Oct 13, 2020
59
Oct 13, 2020
59
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GEN
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Jessica Valenti
‘’Am I the Asshole?’’ Reveals America’s Sexist UnderbellyOne of the most thorough looks at gender inequality can be found on a Reddit forum
Oct 1, 2020
57
Oct 1, 2020
57
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Forge
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Alexander Chee
Don’t Quit Writing When the World Is on FireA novel protects what a missile can’t
Aug 31, 2020
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Aug 31, 2020
7
Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Three People You Meet When You Don’t Like ‘Schitt’s Creek’Schitt’s Creek is not good. Let’s get that out of the way. Some of the performances may be lovely, but the show is not good. I am…
Oct 11, 2020
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Oct 11, 2020
89
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Elemental
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Ashley C. Ford
My Therapist Says Feelings Aren’t Facts‘I feel angry, I am not anger. I feel afraid. I am not my fear either.’
May 11, 2020
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May 11, 2020
32
Jesse Meadows
Is It Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria or Complex Trauma?There’s a new pathological term picking up speed in the ADHD community: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It describes that feeling we are…
Oct 8, 2020
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Oct 8, 2020
13
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Forge
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Courtney Martin
Let’s Stop Romanticizing Post-Pandemic LifeEven on the other side, we will not have transcended the mess of who we are
Aug 24, 2020
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Aug 24, 2020
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