Tag: Self-Discovery Journey
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Why I Broke Up with New York
Most people accept the cityâs chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took me several decades to realize that I could go my own way.
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âItâs not just pleasure â itâs resistanceâ: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world
Gulim in Kazakhstan keeps her very first one as a souvenir while Coco in Thailand breaks the law by having them, and Serena in Italy says theyâre essential. But thereâs still a stigma when it comes to talking about sex toys. Thatâs why Gabriele Galimbertiâs images are so powerful, writes author and academic Roxane Gay…
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Finding a Family of Boys
Tags: Coming of age Family Friendship Identity Masculinity Memoir Race Self-Discovery Journey Youth & EducationLeaving Brooklyn for a new life as a college student in Manhattan was in itself an act of becoming.
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Life After Uncovering a Mind-Blowing Family Secret
Dani Shapiro talks about her extraordinary new memoir, Inheritance, and what itâs like to ârewriteâ your origin story at age 54.
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Weird Doesnât Even Begin to Describe It
It took my brother having his thumb almost cut off by his wife to realize what so many already knew: that maybe their marriage couldnât be saved after all, despite their love.
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A Manâs Quest to Be âAt Oneâ With a Tiger
In 2012, David Villalobos dove into the Siberian tiger pit at the Bronx Zoo. The author retraces Villalobosâs steps in an attempt to understand the impulse that drove him to get close to a predator.