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Life Stories (page 153)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

Freelee the Banana Girl in her video "Watch me eat 51 BANANAS today!!!!!" (YouTube/Freelee the Banana Girl)

Meet the fruitarians

Laura Bolt
Morgan Saylor in "White Girl;" Natasha Lyonne in "Antibirth" (FilmRise/IFC Midnight)

Bad girls, big trouble

Andrew O'Hehir
Colin Kaepernick (AP/Ben Margot)

Colin The Lionheart

Tariq Touré
(<a href='https://www.shutterstock.com/g/TZIDO'>TZIDO SUN</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Salon's social bootcamp

Kirsten Schofield
(<a href='https://www.shutterstock.com/g/wavebreakmedia'>wavebreakmedia</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Christian right's porn crusade

Amanda Marcotte
(AP/Mel Evans)

Samuel Banister, Axel Adams, Roy Gerona - The Conversation
Anthony Weiner (AP/Richard Drew)

The Anthony Weiner trainwreck

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Members of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota participate in a rally to protect water and land from the Dakota Access Pipeline, August 24, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Protests against pipeline

Alli Joseph
(Daniel Hurst)

Karin Kamp - BillMoyers.com
Fidencio Luna (left) sits with his wife and the executive director of the immigrant rights organization El Centro in Staten Island as he fills out paperwork to receive his first Mexican passport. Photo courtesy of Amy Lieberman. (Amy Lieberman)

living a doubly invisible life

Amy Lieberman - Alternet
The author in one of his stolen photos

My face is catfish bait

William Dameron
The Arizona-Mexico border fence near Naco, Arizona. (Reuters/Samantha Sais)

great Mexican wall deception

Todd Miller - TomDispatch.com
(Reuters/Mike Segar)

Debunking school myths

Sophia A. McClennen
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/supersizer'>Milan Marjanovic</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Let's co-sleep on it

Amy M. Miller
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

The GOP's Zika paralysis

Robert Hennelly
(<a href='https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Mettus'>Mettus</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The kids will be all right

Annabelle Gurwitch
(<a href='https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Calvste'>Calvste</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Baby dolls: Not birth control!

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Stanford University (Wikimedia/Travis Wise)

"Female Bodies and Alcohol"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in "Thelma and Louise" (MGM)

"Thelma & Louise" turns 25

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Derrick Gordon became the first openly gay player in NCAA Division I men's basketball in 2014 (AP/Jessica Hill, F)

How gay-friendly is the NBA?

Nico Lang
(<a href='https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Jannis+Tobias+Werner'>Jannis Tobias Werner</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

It's not about "snowflakes"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Nate Parker (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Nate Parker and rape culture

Natasha S. Alford
Ellen Burstyn in "Requiem for a Dream" (Artisan Entertainment)

"Great" films are bummers

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Nate Parker (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Nate Parker's Penn State

Renée Martin
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