social issues

I can’t, and won’t apologize for being bougie. Yea, I said it. But wait, let me explain. Let’s start from the beginning. What is bougie?

Bougie (pronounced boo-jee) is …
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Nowadays 20-something virgins are as extinct as dinosaurs…or are they?

In this day and age where everything is over-sexualized, being an adult virgin is shunned and frowned upon. People automatically …
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He had been complaining that I wasn’t spending enough time with him.

We only saw each other maybe once or twice every month (and no it wasn’t in any …
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A compilation of freshly brewed reads curated for twenty + thirty somethings.

+ My Absentee Father Tried To Friend Me On Facebook I first learned my Dad’s birthday when he …
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India sung a song about it back in ‘06, but its 2014 and I still have to explain to people that I am not my hair. People tend to think …
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When I was in fourth grade, I was almost kidnapped and it didn’t really hit me until a year ago.

I was just getting off of the school bus in …
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A compilation of freshly brewed reads curated for twenty + thirty somethings.

Relax Mom. The following conversation happened this morning while I was eating my bowl of brown sugar and …
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My friends and I arrive at a Japanese-American restaurant, and are served sushi by a Mexican-American. While dining, the Mexican-American sushi chef entertains us with a few funny stories about …
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Everything I came here to write is depressing and too personal, and I’m really afraid that I’m going to write this and get hate mail. And then I feel self-centered …
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The months leading up to my 30th birthday were filled with anxiety for reasons that were amplified by society and its standards of where I should be at that …
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