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Category Archive: Personal Essay

9021Overweight: Beverly Hills Body Shame

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My greatest fear was true: my scale wasn’t lying. I did look bloated. And since I’m a woman, I’m the worst, because the worst thing a woman can be is fat.

Danielle Lloyd January 10, 2017 Food, Gender & Sexuality, Humor, LA, Nonfiction, Op-Ed, Personal Essay, The Patriarchy, Wellness, Women's Rights

New Year Revolutions: Mobilize, Not Mobile Apps

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Selfies of you protesting in sepia don’t count.

Danielle Lloyd January 5, 2017 Around the World, Nonfiction, Op-Ed, Personal Essay, Politics, Social Justice, The Patriarchy

Meditations in an Emergency, Sorry Frank

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A Tsunami of post-fact; we were drowning in the waves of the unreal.

Ryan McBride December 2, 2016 Nonfiction, Personal Essay, Politics

Your Face is Not My Face

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I was always wanting to be in somebody else’s skin.

Lisa December 2, 2016 Nonfiction, Personal Essay

A Letter To My Someday Daughter

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When you’re a child, we try to make your world fair.

matildaleecurtis November 22, 2016 Gender & Sexuality, Nonfiction, Personal Essay, Politics, Wellness, Women's Rights

Times I’ve Felt Unsafe as a Woman

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1. With a police officer.

Christina Berke November 21, 2016 Gender & Sexuality, Love, Sex & Relationships, Nonfiction, Personal Essay, Women's Rights

We Were Not Worthy of Hillary Clinton

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I feel a sense of loss I’ve never felt before.

Molly Thomson November 17, 2016 Gender & Sexuality, Op-Ed, Personal Essay, Politics, The Patriarchy, Women's Rights

On Periods

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I’m curvier than the Guggenheim and it makes me very sad.

Danielle Lloyd November 15, 2016 Gender & Sexuality, Health, Humor, Nonfiction, Personal Essay, Sexual Health, Vagina Series, Wellness

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I am submitting this anonymously because I work for a job where I am allowed to take no partisan side, and that work is very important, and the side that has just seized power over this country is the side that would just as soon see me, and the thousands more fighting for the rights of the oppressed alongside me, gone.

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canvassmag November 11, 2016 Op-Ed, Personal Essay, Politics

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