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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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Best Sex Writing of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Latina Glitter

27th
Jan. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

“Latina Glitter”, a story of mine was selected for The Best Sex Writing of 2012. This is the story BEHIND that story.  The meta best sex writing of 2012. All photos taken at La Cueva by Edmund X White. Outside the car window, Chicago’s South Side is a-glow.There are lively taquerias, a store with a [...]

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Reader Questions: LDR’s, Man-Thongs and Straight Dude who watch Dudes in Porn

20th
Jan. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

Watch more new videos on Tumblr, where if you have a question you can ask.

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The Part of a Movie where the Girl Gets a Make-Over

13th
Jan. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

In the world of girl movies, when your protagonist gets new hair or suddenly starts wearing a new color, it’s a sign–the character has changed, cue climax, shit it about to go down. I am drawn to the idea that changing one’s look could transform other areas. I personally mark time by hairstyle– “was that [...]

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The Story of Story: A Traveling Stripper

4th
Jan. × ’12
By Rachel R. White

All photos by Alicia Vera (and of no one interviewed) I recently became obsessed with stripper blogs. I was staying up late, reading about “musical theater” strippers, female customers who jump on on the pole and dressing room drama. In order to pretend that this was somehow productive… I decided to interview these bloggers. I [...]

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Is Divorce a Bad Thing? A History of the Wife Pt. 2

16th
Dec. × ’11
By Rachel R. White

Why isn’t divorce a good thing? When news of any divorce spreads, it is with a certain sadness (even in celebrity marriages, RIP Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon) or sometimes it is with a little smugness (haha, Kim Kardashian). But considering the high divorce rate; or even the fact that divorce was a hard-won feminist victory, [...]

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Birthdays and Periods: The Old ‘How You got Your Period’ Story

9th
Dec. × ’11
By Rachel R. White

This weekend is my birthday. Also, I will be on my period during my birthday. But that is not what this post is about. This is about another birthday, my twelfth birthday, when I did not get my period. Entering the fifth grade, I knew I would have sex-education class in the Spring. I heard about [...]

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