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I’ve written and rewritten this blog in my head several times over the past few months. As many of you know, I have been recovering from anorexia since April. I was at an Ivy League school, a D-1 athlete and should have been living my dream. Nobody expected me to end up in the hospital with an…
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Gabby Smith is not exactly on vacation. But seated in the sun next to a roaring waterfall in the middle of upstate New York, she may as well be. In reality, the twenty-six year-old singer behind Eskim
The human journey has always been marked by our quest to understand love in order to reap its fruits. We have captured that ever-shifting understanding in some breathtakingly beautiful definitions. There is Susan Sontag, who marveled in her diary: “Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except…
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The day before my friend Tayler Smith and I found out our photo series was appropriated into the New Yorker, I woke up to a text message from another friend. We’re psychic sisters; she has a nightmare
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We all have those annoying friends on Facebook. They’ll tag you in unflattering pictures, they send too many messages, and they get touchy when you unfriend or unfollow them for doing so. But the new
What the hell is everyone doing? And more importantly, why is everyone doing what they’re doing? It’s Wednesday evening and through the lens of the people I follow on Twitter–a collection of people I
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What is a piece of writing if no one reads it, if no one can attribute it to your name? The work is for you, and only you, meaning that, among other things, the cesspool of internet comments is easily avoided. You become your own worst critic, and best champion, and criticism — helpful or otherwise…
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Photo: Bobby Doherty Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a scho
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Do the Math: How much of your time is spent online consuming things made by other people versus time spent making something of your own? Using Wikipedia’s “Wikipedians” as a general compass, only .01 — .02 % of their audience creates (contributes) to their community. Everyone else, statistically…
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