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On transfeminine anger

Samantha Riedel

Feeling naked and exposed on Yom Kippur

Lisa Tognola

My biggest and best fear: Fatherhood

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A gift from an innocent man on death row

Rene Denfeld

"That waitress who thinks she can write"

Mesha Maren

Men explain toxic masculinity to me

Timothy J. Hillegonds

How Pat Conroy and I became best friends

Bernie Schein

Long aftermath of a mass shooting

Karein Goertz

Back to school, with a baby

Elizabeth Ames

"You want a rich lady mouth"

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Private lessons for the famous director

Marilee Albert

Our worst year yet, at the best schools

Teru Clavel

When I stopped orbiting men at work

Brooke Warner

Life in the house of alternative facts

Ona Gritz

Brian Banks, the man behind the movie

D. Watkins

Rikers Island, a stain on New York

Peter Kaldheim

Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump

Erin Keane

Let us all praise loneliness

Miciah Bay Gault

A pop culture powerhouse's origin story

Chauncey DeVega

A Trader Joe's hostage, one year later

Lynnie Westafer

Dapper Dan: Fashion as liberation

D. Watkins

To Italy, with the literary A-list

Lily Burana

The friends of Jeffrey Epstein

Jesse Kornbluth

Searching for Ernest Hemingway in Cuba

Andrew Feldman

Protect the sacred lives of women

Amanda Miska

Scammers hid behind his face

Erin Keane

Busing in Berkeley: Kamala and me

Andrew O'Hehir

When is a mother good enough?

Sharon Lamb

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