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Megan Rapinoe and the impact of female sports stars on highlighting social issues

Sports stars often use their status as a vehicle for change, with their media exposure giving them a platform to highlight social issues. Many female athletes are particularly vocal about certain topics that they feel impacts their ability to be treated as equals to their male counterparts. Discrimination has long been a major problem to […]

Emily Postmodern: How To Break Up With Someone Without Being A Jerk

In 1962, breaking up was hard enough and Neil Sedaka only had to worry about running into a former flame out with a new love IRL, not seeing their new romantic vacation selfies on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Vine and Snapchat, all hashtagged #mylove, #lovemybae, #GenderSpecificCrushDayoftheWeek. It’s the same old refrain: social media brings us closer […]

Why I Need Pet-Parenting Vacations

I’ve been obsessed with animals for as long as I can remember. I’m sure you’ve seen me (or one of my ubiquitous, 30-something single-lady soul twins, perpetually emitting twee-voiced animal baby-talk while ensconced in an inch-thick resin of cat hair). As a child, I was the annoying, overly sensitive, bleeding-heart kid who orchestrated elaborate funerals for […]

Life After Dating: 7 Ways A Relationship Changes Your Sex Life & 7 Ways It Doesn’t

I’m someone who has had a lot of sex with a lot of different people — “a lot,” of course, being subject to interpretation. I have had several relationships throughout my life, but a fair amount of sex has been with hookups, men that I briefly dated, or FWB. I’ve been lucky enough to have […]