My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
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Back to the land - Alice Driver writes about her father, a potter, and his ongoing project of building his own tomb as his final creative act
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How does it feel living in a crypt? Impressions of one year later.
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We quit our jobs to build a cabin—everything went wrong
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Coming out at ninety years old... to my gay daughter
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After ten years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
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A personal account of a fake Amazon reviewer
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How does it feel to make police shows in 2020?
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The most recent iteration of a widespread government imposter scam has bilked thousands of Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars
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How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood
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I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter
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Three stories of people fired after being accused of racism
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I just became a US citizen today
I took the Oath to become an American citizen today, after having lived in the U.S. since I was a little girl. I'm glad to have finally done this, but I'm wondering on what to do next. Any and all...
I took the Oath to become an American citizen today, after having lived in the U.S. since I was a little girl. I'm glad to have finally done this, but I'm wondering on what to do next.
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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My friends and I swap nudes as a form of pandemic self-care
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Before they were ‘Jackass,’ they were my suburb’s local dirtbags
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I am a mother of a trans teen and here’s what you’re getting wrong about them
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Why this woman chooses to live in a ghost town
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I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl
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My teenage rebellion was fundamentalist Christianity
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What it's like being a Lifeline crisis support counsellor during the coronavirus pandemic
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The day the pirates came
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Why I’m learning more with distance learning than I do in school
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How I built a $100 drive-in movie theater to hang out with friends while social distancing
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Scientists make mistakes. I made a big one
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It's been surreal to watch friends, family and the broader public thrust so suddenly into a world I have inhabited for years: figuring out how to navigate Centrelink
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Webcam hacking—The story of how I gained unauthorized Camera access on iOS and macOS
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My family owns a grocery store. The supply chain is a real problem
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What it’s like to isolate with your girlfriend and her other boyfriend
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When your barber assumes you’re a racist too
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Cheating on my parents: My own abusive mother and father were being replaced, and they knew it
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Chemotherapy and the coronavirus threat — my immunity levels mean you need to care about COVID-19
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Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology
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I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me.
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Working in science was a brutal education. That’s why I left
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Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
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My teenage life after leaving a cult
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I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right
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I don’t want to be the strong female lead
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What I learned about life at a company that deals in dead bodies
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I worry for my teenage boys – the beauty standards for young men are out of control
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Demoted and placed on probation
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Splendid isolation: How I stopped time by sitting in a forest for twenty-four hours
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I used to be an anti-LGBTQ Evangelical. Here’s what finally changed my heart and mind.
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The day that never happened
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Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
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How tarot and astrology helped me cope with my depression
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Our Tesla Model 3 suffered a catastrophic failure while parked
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I sold microwave meals on Deliveroo
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How I get by: A week in the life of a McDonald’s cashier
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I worked for Alex Jones. I regret it.
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