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1. CHICAGO: @Astro_Ron has been tweeting pictures from outer space. This is Chicago. 2. JOB PROSPECTS: For Lack of a Better Comic tackles the predicament of an English major in this job market. 3....
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Sunday Scraps 52
1. LAWS: Some of the ladies at The Rumpus took it upon themselves to respond to the rash of lady-bashing legislation with some suggestions for bills that will make most penises curl up inside...
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iFOMO
Apologies for absenteeism. Does anyone else ever get anxious that real life is getting in the way of all of the things you want to read on the internet? That doesn’t seem super healthy, but it’s...
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Do you find my breasts offensive?
David Horsey, LA Times I don’t write a lot about breastfeeding, but maybe I should start. In my twenty-something mind, breastfeeding isn’t high on my priority list of feminist issues. My activist brain...
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So What Do You Do Exactly? Social Strategy Edition
Welcome back to my jobs series, So What Do You Do Exactly? Today’s guest, Ambika, is social strategist at the big NYC advertising agency BBH. She works on megabrands (rhymes with “schmoogle”),...
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Sunday Scraps 85
1. SPORTS: This Charles Siebert piece for the New York Times Magazine about the rigors and stresses of trying to make an NFL team is fascinating. How much do you want it? And how much are you willing...
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Great Textpectations
I so wanted to officially name this essay “Great Textpectations” but my (excellent) Role/Reboot editor vetoed in favor of something that I’m sure will drive more search traffic. I would have done it up...
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Win Something Pretty?
Dear readers/friends/random strangers who searched one of these terms to get here, “giant muscle dominates skinny bitch,” “Patrick Wilson doesn’t know his dad,” or “8 pm,” I’m so glad you found me....
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Americanah + Their Eyes Were Watching God
If you follow me on Twitter, you recently absorbed a barrage of book quote tweets with either the hashtag #Americanah or #TheirEyes. I didn’t intend to read Americanah and Their Eyes Were Watching God...
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Pack it up, Pax
Another week, another kerfuffle over the tech industry’s ongoing hostility towards women. Overview: This one began when Pax Dickinson, the Chief Technical Officer for Business Insider was fired after...
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Stranger Pics & The Pope
Contrary to the title of this post, this is not an essay about stranger pictures and the Pope, but rather two separate essays for Role/Reboot. This week, I wrote about the first rule of fight club:...
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The ESPN Body Issue & #HuskyTwitter
Last week for Role/Reboot I wrote about the annual ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue”, which features naked portraits of lots of people who can do some crazy powerful/graceful/coordinated shit with their...
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