Relationships This Time Last Year: On Intimacy, Suicidality, and Abuse
"This time last year I called the cops on my husband."
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LGBT Living In Laramie: After Matthew Shepard
Jess White on the experience of living in Laramie, Wyoming, and gay identity's relationship with tragedy.
Meta Buttered This Week: Aug. 15-21
This week was the full feelings buffet. Remember, you can always come back for more: Celeste Ng called How to Make Yogurt in Manila by Grace Talusan ‘beautiful and moving’ (on the Twitter machine) so you don’t have to take our word for its awesomeness. “Things That Are Meant To Make You Feel Safe And …
Writing The Light: On Teaching, Childhood, and a School Shooting
The author on her childhood and the school shooting she experienced as a teacher.
Family Disarmed
A Southern woman reconsiders race and violence in the wake of her brother's death.
Writing The Quiet After the Ottawa Shooting
Sarah Trick on the atmosphere in her city and on Parliament Hill after the Ottawa shooting.
Writing “Hope Is Not a Strategy”: On Violence, Redirected
Katie DePasquale on her study of Krav Maga, and what re-channeling the idea of violence has meant to her and her family.
Relationships “It Hurts”: On Domestic Violence
A personal narrative of domestic violence.
News “His exact words were get the f—k on the sidewalk.”
Mychal Denzel Smith and others on the killing of Michael Brown.
Race Lost and Found
"Lost and Found," a short story by Vanessa Willoughby.
Personal Stories Three Ways I Was Beaten
Ariella Yendler on one of the strangest nights of her life.
