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Advice is a strange practice, halfway between pedagogy and friendship. We ask for it because we want to hear our own thoughts reflected back, but it can unexpectedly jolt us into new understanding....
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Like the early advice columns of the 18th century, like the agony aunts of the advice column’s mid-20th century heyday, the wise women of the Internet specialize in a very femme form of critique and...
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AN obvious but often overlooked fact about maps of the world is that they are not exact copies of reality but rather representations created with the purpose of helping us navigate. Nevertheless...
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I love my boyfriend but he doesn’t feel the same, though he cares about me. What can I do to make him fall in love with me? Oh, honey. You can’t force these things. You can’t make anybody do anything....
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How can I deal with these messages from media and even family that I’m not a fully valid person because I’m a single black woman in her 30s? I just read a headline about a woman committing suicide...
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Dear Zahira, Is it just me or are men getting worse, not better, in terms of patriarchy? I’m a woman of color and I just don’t see it for myself in that sense. It is not just you. At best, men are...
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Our advice columnist Zahira Kelly specializes in the jolt of recognition that comes from rearranging or inverting mainstream hierarchies. In this month’s column, she dissects the costs of online fame...
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Dear Marooned Alien Princess, I find it hard to not give some credence to evolutionary psychology’s assertion that patriarchy is hardwired in humans. While feminism has merits, patriarchy is still...
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Dear Marooned Alien Princess, It’s election season again, and I am unable to sincerely put my support behind any of these campaigns. As a person of color, I am feeling guilted about how my ancestors...
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OUR advice columnist Zahira Kelly specializes in the jolt of recognition that comes from rearranging or inverting mainstream hierarchies. In this month’s column, she helps readers understand their...
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