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One one side a woman holding a pregnancy test, on the other a woman swiping through a dating app on her phone. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Zave Smith/oatawa)

Dating apps for the single mom-to-be

Sophie Sills
Chloe Toscano (Photo courtesy of author)

My unexpected Paralympics training win

Chloe Toscano
Sorry, not sorry (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster)

Sorry, but fake apologies are the worst

D. Watkins
Author and their dog, Joni (Photo provided by Charlie Nelson Jacobs)

My hot trans boy summer

Charlie Nelson Jacobs
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Jennifer Murphy (Juniper Paiusco)

The loneliness of our "summer of joy"

Jennifer Murphy
Vintage typewriter (Ken Redding/The Image Bank/Getty Images)

My mother's "selfish" writing retreat

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Person typing at computer (Getty Images)

The view from Trauma Land

D. Watkins
English novelist Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), author of 'Jane Eyre' and sister to Anne and Emily Bronte. (Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images)

On being the madwoman in the attic

Vanessa Zoltan
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Speciality caribbean dish of callaloo (spinach) served with fried dumplings (Getty Images)

This Jamaican dish healed old wounds

Antoinette Deitcher
Illuminated cobbled street in old city by night (Getty Images/Pyty Czech)

Why the Jack the Ripper story endures

Clare Whitfield
Broken Pencil (Getty Images/Maciej Toporowicz)

When mentors and protégés fall out

Susan Shapiro
Holy Bible (Getty Images/Krisanapong Detraphiphat)

Religious extremism is normal in America

Shawna Kay Rodenberg
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D Watkins and his daughter (Photo provided by D Watkins)

I love being a Girl Dad

D. Watkins
Old Camper Van (Getty Images/Roman Krykh/EyeEm)

I lost my dad in Nomadland

Jacque Gorelick
Little girl reaching for fries in a restaurant. (Getty Images/Luke Chan)

My first lunch out with my daughter

Tabitha Blankenbiller
Great-Uncle Allan (Photo illustration by Salon/Michael H. Hodges/Getty Images)

Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey

Michael H. Hodges
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Takirra Winfield Dixon (Photo illustration by Salon / images provided by author)

Taking the leap to be my own boss

Takirra Winfield Dixon
Author Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks on stage during the 137th Commencement at Morehouse College on May 16, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Marcus Ingram/Getty Images)

Academic nightmares for Black professors

D. Watkins
Mother breastfeeding baby in living room (Getty Images)

Big Tech is coming for your breast milk

Julia Pelly
Veronica Roth, author behind the Divergent series (Photo illustration by Salon/Veronica Roth/Nelson Fitch)

I killed the beloved hero of my books

Veronica Roth
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Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

I fled my anxiety through Xanax

Matthew Rozsa
Kimiko Guthrie's grandfather, Masayoshi Endo, with other family images in the background (Photo provided by Kimiko Guthrie)

The Asian men I never knew

Kimiko Guthrie
An African-American man with a camera looking at the skeletons of iron beds which rise above the ashes of a burned-out block after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1921. (Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images)

On the Tulsa Massacre, race and America

Tim Madigan
Typing on laptop (Getty Images)

The lost art of not having an opinion

D. Watkins
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