Monthly Archives: February 2012

Reader Questions: First Loves, Jealousy, Labia-Hate and 24 year old Virgins

24th
Feb. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

  Ask your own question or interact with me on Tumblr!

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Scared of Men

17th
Feb. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

The other day I looked up from my laptop at a coffee shop and saw that everyone was bent over a screen. I wondered what someone from 1971 would think about this “1984″ business. Each day by mid-afternoon my body aches from this ergonomic failure, but I’ve learned to remedy it with some stretching and yoga. [...]

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You Aren’t Supposed to Say That

17th
Feb. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

I was at bar in Manhattan for a magazine-networking party. The place was decorated for Christmas and crowded with name-tags that read “Elle” or “Marie Claire”. After ordering a glass of white wine (I’ll have what everyone is having) I hovered among the editors and beauty writers. They smiled and looked into their glasses or [...]

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Can Men and Women Just be Friends? or the Line of Being “Just Friends” & Hating that Question

10th
Feb. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

On g-chat, a friend sends me a link to a YouTube video called, “Can men and women just be friends?” I roll my eyes. I hate that question. It is heteronormative and sexist, and yet I click anyway. The video has 5,208,458 views. In it, women on a college-campus answered, yes of course men and [...]

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Writers Curiosity: Into the Troll Museum & Down the Rabbit Hole with Elf Girl, Rev. Jen

10th
Feb. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

The front half of Reverend Jen’s apartment is the “Lower East Side Troll Museum.” Hundreds of them, naked and bejeweled, line the walls. Further inside Jen’s paintings of unicorns, aliens and fairies swirl in pastel psychedelia. Reverend Jen is a sort of New York celebrity “I don’t have my ears on,” she says collapsing next [...]

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