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Feb 22, 2021

In the past year, how has the pandemic changed your intimate relationships?

Have you wanted to be closer to people or farther from them? Have you wanted more or less intimacy? Have you given up on dating or are you…

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Dec 28, 2020

‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Got Me Through 2020

The Gang’s chaos agents helped me understand what the hell just happened

‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Got Me Through 2020

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Dec 23, 2020

Welcome to Atlanta, Where the Viral Internet Is Born

Black creators make the viral hits, but struggle to command the same attention and money as White creators in Los Angeles

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Dec 16, 2020

A Few Statistics on the Extreme Whiteness of the Book Industry

‘We were shocked by the extent of the inequality once we analyzed the data’

A Few Statistics on the Extreme Whiteness of the Book Industry

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Dec 9, 2020

Baltimore’s Progressive Black Millennial Mayor Is Ready to Work

Brandon Scott is the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century

Michelle Legro

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Dec 8, 2020

2020 may have been the worst for almost everything, but it was a great time for new words.

Michelle Legro

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Dec 1, 2020

Who Was Book Expo For, Anyway?

At least we all got some nice tote bags

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Nov 24, 2020

Trump’s lawyers seem like they’re not super great at this law stuff.

The process of lawyering has potentially powerful effects on one’s conscience and character. To be someone’s lawyer — especially a…

Michelle Legro

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Nov 22, 2020

“I accepted the lack of mirroring in my magazines as something that would not change, so best not…

Ashley C. Ford has long been obsessed with teen magazines. She would buy them with her allowance from her grandma, hoping that one day he…

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Nov 21, 2020

Twitter will transfer the POTUS handle to Joe Biden on January 20, no matter what.

Joe Biden’s personal Twitter has 19.3 million followers, so the POTUS handle will bump his following. Barack Obama currently has 126.5…

Michelle Legro

Michelle Legro

Deputy Editor, GEN. Previously an editor for Topic, Longreads, The New Republic, and Lapham’s Quarterly. gen.medium.com

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