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  • Voices on Addiction

Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erin Khar

  • Tessa Torgeson
  • March 10, 2020
Erin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
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Mixed Feelings: How to Make Friends after Thirty

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • February 10, 2020
The problem is we tend to let romantic love eclipse all else.
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Mixed Feelings: A Better Version of Love

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • May 7, 2019
You are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
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Mixed Feelings: A Valentine to Aging Women

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • February 14, 2019
Letting go of these ideas about a woman’s value feels like the obvious thing to do, but it’s really hard.
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Mixed Feelings: Two Roads Diverged at a Picket Fence

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • November 19, 2018
Here we are standing the woods. Which path should we take?
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Mixed Feelings: The Power and Limits of Labels

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • June 25, 2018
Maybe I’m not bisexual. What am I?
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Mixed Feelings: Am I Too Fat For Love?

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • February 14, 2018
We don’t like to think that love traffics in the same biases that shape our culture—but of course it does.
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Mixed Feelings: Happy Wife, Happy Life

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • August 22, 2017
Ending a relationship is hard, but it’s not as hard as quitting an institution. And the thing we often forget about marriage is that it is an institution.
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Mixed Feelings: Why Do Men Always Want to Settle Down?

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • May 31, 2017
Many women do want to get married, and that’s a perfectly reasonable choice. The problem, then, is that when a woman says she doesn’t want to marry, many people find this hard to believe.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #46: Beauty and the Beast

  • Sugar
  • August 5, 2010
Dear Sugar, I’m an average twenty-six-year-old man, exceptional only in that I’m writing to an Internet advice columnist and that I’m incredibly ugly. I don’t hate myself, and I don’t…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #34: Are You My Mother?

  • Sugar
  • April 29, 2010
You might lose your heart, honey, but you’ll keep your hat.
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