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Race

What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism

by Nicole Chung · January 5, 2016
On casual racism in otherwise polite company, and the split-second deliberations that go into deciding how to respond in a no-win scenario.
Feminism

Feminist Postpartum Vignettes

by Marissa Maciel · February 18, 2015
Marissa Maciel envisions (and illustrates) some heartwarming feminist postpartum vignettes.
Advice

Tracking Your Fertility In Folklore: Preventing Changelings And Other Common Curses

by Mallory Ortberg · January 13, 2015
How to track your fertility to prevent changelings, mooncalves, and the evil eye.

More by Mallory Ortberg

  • Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” As I Understand It

  • Lord Byron’s “Fare Thee Well,” or “I Just Think It’s Funny How”

  • Questions I Have Asked During The Only Episode Of Doctor Who I Have Ever Seen Until My Friend Said “Okay, Mallory, Why Don’t You Write Your Questions Down And Ask Them All After We’re Done Watching?”

  • Joan Didion and Anna Wintour: Best Friends Forever

Art

Families Who Hate Each Other In Western Art History

by Mallory Ortberg · November 24, 2014
Western art history is full of sad families.
Family

I Am My Mother’s Daughter

by Megan Reynolds · June 5, 2014
Megan Reynolds, on seeing herself in her mother, and on being a daughter.
Family

Alternative Mother’s Day Cards

by Megan Piontkowski and Jessica Machado · May 9, 2014
A series of Mother's Day cards you may not have seen before.

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