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A Brief History of the Acceptable High School T-Shirts of the Late 1980s

A Brief History of the Acceptable High School T-Shirts of the Late 1980s

Susan McCarty on the Exploitation of Conspicuous Consumer Desire

By Susan McCarty | March 30, 2020

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Dylan Byron on the Self-Discovery of Early Literary Love

By Dylan Byron | March 3, 2020

Inside the ‘Vibrant Intellectual Ecosystem’ of Larry McMurtry's Home Library

Inside the ‘Vibrant Intellectual Ecosystem’ of Larry McMurtry's Home Library

McMurtry on the Few Books He Would Never Give Up

By Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein | February 18, 2020

Cataloguing Carson McCullers' Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

Cataloguing Carson McCullers' Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

Jenn Shapland on What She Found in the Writer's Archives

By Jenn Shapland | February 18, 2020

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance<br> 'Books of Secrets'

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Meghan Racklin on the History and Alchemy of Self-Care

By Meghan Racklin | January 15, 2020

Where the Male Gaze Doesn't Go: On YouTube's Universe of Make-Up Tutorials

Where the Male Gaze Doesn't Go: On YouTube's Universe of Make-Up Tutorials

Sam George-Allen on the Politics and Empowerment of Online Cosmetics

By Sam George-Allen | January 13, 2020

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An Oral History of the Landmark Magazine for Trans Men That Became a Movement

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Amos Mac and Rocco Katastrophe on Original Plumbing

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Nobody Wins in the Age-Old Debate Over High Heels

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In Search of the Surreal at the Leonora Carrington Museum

In Search of the Surreal at the Leonora Carrington Museum

A Sculptor, Writer, and Feminist Pioneer Who Defied Categorization

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How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

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Writing Literary Classics and Advising American Toymakers

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The Argument We Need for the Universal Wearing of Beards

The Argument We Need for the Universal Wearing of Beards

Cutting Edge Victorian Tastemaker Thomas S. Gowing Says Let it Grow

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