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Life Stories (page 152)

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

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true meaning of labor day

Jay L. Zagorsky - The Conversation
(Getty/SolisImages)

Embracing "adulting"

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Photo via GWImages / Shutterstock (Licensed) Remix by Max Fleishman

Lyz Lenz - The Daily Dot
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Grindr: Not just a meat market

Peter Kispert
(Getty/MikeNelson)

He lived Burning Man every day

Liza Monroy
The author on Fire Island, center, laughing, with his housemates.

The boys of summer are men now

Brian Perrin
(AP/Matt Rourke)

Robert Hennelly
Pamela Anderson (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff /Invision/AP, File) (AP/Colin Young-Wolff/Invision)

Porn is not "for losers"

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Legend Preston (ABC7)

Perceiving blacks as monsters

Chauncey DeVega
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1563968p1.html'>Adisorn Saovadee</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

"Having it all" is impossible

Rachel Kramer Bussel
(Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Larry Schwartz - Alternet

Brendan Gauthier
A product shot of the Emojibator. (emojibator.com)

Sex with the eggplant emoji

Erin Coulehan
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
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Salon's social bootcamp

Kirsten Schofield
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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
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