The Butter Lard, or the Origin of Remedy: Flash Fiction
The Butter presents a new work of flash fiction by Amy Sayre Baptista.
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Relationships Full Battle Rattle
After her boyfriend's death, dating felt a bit like a combat zone to Glendaliz Camacho, but the emotional protective gear she donned soon became obsolete.
Health Disrupting Domesticity: Mental Illness & Love as a Fact
Ashley Ford and her partner Kelly on living with mental illness, and living with and loving someone affected by mental illness.
Poetry This Writer’s On Fire: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
A profile of writer, poet, and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Family The One-Hundred-Year-Flood
A historic Texas flood reveals an addiction, and threatens to drown a new marriage.
Advice Ask Bear: Is This a Good Idea?
The Butter debut of "Ask Bear," a weekly advice column from S. Bear Bergman.
The Butter For Years I Dreamed of Ink Stains
"Most important is to understand that everything is woven together—the secrets and the not eating and the string of men I turned into numbers."
The Butter The Danger of Being a Woman
The author on living in and teaching her daughter to navigate a dangerous world.
Books Literary Ladies Cage Fight: Independence Day Rematch!
The Butter's Literary Ladies Cage Fight matchup: Janie from Zora Neale Hurston’s THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD vs. Dorothea from George Eliot’s MIDDLEMARCH.
Family How to Cope with Your Sibling’s Mental Illness
Dena Afrasiabi writes for The Butter about what her brother's mental illness means for her.
The Butter Body Politics: A Trip to the Gym
Would you like to hear a really awkward gym story? Okay.
The Butter World of Wonder: Aye-Aye
Aimee Nezhukumatathil introduces you to the aye-aye in her latest World of Wonder column for The Butter.
Family To the God of Seedlings and Dead Girls
"I cry because now the spring has been ruined for me. There is blood on the leaves": Jamila Osman on grieving for her sister.
The Butter Liner Notes: A Departure
In his Liner Notes column for The Butter, mensah demary considers marriage equality, the eulogy for Rev. Pinckney, and the brave actions of Bree Newsome.
Movies I Wanted to Hug Every Part of Him With My Mouth: A Magic Mike XXL Recap
A recap of Magic Mike XXL, a most excellent movie.
