"It's a true gift": Shea Couleé opens up about embracing their non-binary identity
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In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet
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Many in Chinatown have never tried its most popular restaurant, so I brought the food to them
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Canada’s saddest grow-op: My humiliating adventures in growing marijuana
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I oversaw the US nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.
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What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll
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I told prison guards I have celiac disease. They fed me gluten anyway.
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I regret my role at Facebook, but I’m keeping the money
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How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
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I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun
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This is what it sounds like hiding in a dark classroom during a school shooting
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Taking mushrooms for depression cured me of my atheism: Psilocybin not only eased my depression, it showed me a new way to live.
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What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
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Getting diagnosed with ADHD at 25 changed everything
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My childhood in a cult
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I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month
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I’m a North Carolina public school teacher. Here’s why I’m walking out today.
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Not dead but gone: How a concussion changed my girlfriend's personality forever
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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Tumblr helped me plan my eating disorder. Then it helped me heal.
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I’ve been a lesbian my entire life, but I only realized I was a woman this year
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I'm a Christian doctor and I help women have abortions. Here's how I reconcile that.
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Cecilia's life with schizophrenia
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The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: Moving back to the Midwest
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Bigger than that - complex thoughts on a life spent being the short guy
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Why drinking can feel isolating when you have 'Asian glow'
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Her time: Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at sixty-five. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.
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Her son died. And then anti-vaxers attacked her.
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Hated and hunted - The perilous life of the computer virus cracker making powerful enemies online
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‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’
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On the death of my family's dairy farm
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The Kimberley Queen who escaped persecution in Indonesia to find sanctuary in Broome
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I stood up to Apple and fixed my own Mac
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‘Is my absence from social media a red flag?’
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How Marie Kondo helped me sort out my gender
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An interview with a guy who wears the same thing every day
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An Honest Living - Steve Salaita tries to make sense of his unusual transition from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage driving school buses
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Magic sluts with psoriasis
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My life at 47 is back to what it was like at 27 - Post-divorce, I’ve returned to my old ways
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A four-year-old trapped in a teenager’s body
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My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft
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Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company
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What I learned from the hacker who spied on me
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What does any of this have to do with physics?
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I tried to block Amazon from my life. It was impossible.
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So I became a historian—Now I’m telling how it worked out
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Frozen alive
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Growing up as a living goddess
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The weight I carry - What it’s like to be too big in America
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Me and my quarter-life crisis: A millennial asks what went wrong
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