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Meghan Gunn
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How a ‘Buy Nothing’ Group Kept Me Human

It’s an alternative to waste—but also proof of life — “Need a vibrator?” I received this text from a neighbor after moving into my new apartment in downtown Manhattan last summer. Attached was a screenshot of a Facebook post advertising a free, unopened vibrator for pickup on my block. “Omg, what FB group is this?!” I texted back. “Only the…

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How a ‘Buy Nothing’ Group Kept Me Human
How a ‘Buy Nothing’ Group Kept Me Human
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Mar 31, 2021

What Re-Reading Classics Can Tell Us About Ourselves

Getting Over Heathcliff Young Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights was my first crush. He had this hot, mysterious, bad boy vibe, kind of Joel Madden-y in like, an 1840s way. Eleven-year-old me absolutely swooned over that little prince of the moors. …

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What Re-Reading Classics Can Tell Us About Ourselves
What Re-Reading Classics Can Tell Us About Ourselves
Self

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Published in Human Parts

·Mar 29, 2021

Taking the Amtrak, Then and Now

An ode to the meditative power of train travel — After one horrific Megabus experience in 2012, I began taking the Amtrak everywhere instead. What’s better than staring longingly out of a train window, Sufjan in your earbuds, a vast landscape stretched before you? It never mattered where I was going, Lollapalooza 2015 or a wholesome coastal town — I…

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Taking the Amtrak, Then and Now
Taking the Amtrak, Then and Now
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Mar 13, 2021

MAN! I feel like a woman

To my fifteen-year anniversary with internet misogyny I used to log on to AIM on my family’s basement desktop to see what boys really thought of me. I’d stack phone books on the chair because I was too small to see the screen, and wait for the pings that told…

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MAN! I feel like a woman
MAN! I feel like a woman
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Feb 19, 2021

Missing an Old Hookup? Give Yourself the Ick.

A few weeks ago, I watched a friend scroll Instagram until she settled on a low-gradient image. She stared intently at the photo, eyes wide, one hand over her mouth. “What is it?!” I asked. She passed me the phone. My hand, too, went immediately to my mouth. The image…

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Missing an Old Hookup? Give Yourself the Ick.
Missing an Old Hookup? Give Yourself the Ick.
Romance

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Feb 5, 2021

Did You Have Sex-Ed or Did You Have Pam Stenzel?

Reckoning with Abstinence Education’s Shame Culture It often feels as if I’ve reverted to my high school self this year, minus the feather hair extensions and Death Cab for Cutie obsession. …

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Did You Have Sex-Ed or Did You Have Pam Stenzel?
Did You Have Sex-Ed or Did You Have Pam Stenzel?
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Jan 8, 2021

This is Exactly Who We’ve Always Been

This week’s been bursting with politicians’ tired takes claiming “this isn’t who we are.” Oh, that cliched phrase of American exceptionalism. It seems to surface monthly at this point, so I wonder: if it must be said so frequently, doesn’t it make the opposite true? …

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This is Exactly Who We’ve Always Been
This is Exactly Who We’ve Always Been
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Jan 4, 2021

How to Keep the Internet from Ruining Your Life When You Can’t Opt Out

I seem to be permanently online lately — I type all day in this hellscape, and I also can not and do not want to abstain from memes. So the past year, I’ve worked on making this a more livable space, one that has actually become a place of refuge…

Internet

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How to Keep the Internet from Ruining Your Life When You Can’t Opt Out
How to Keep the Internet from Ruining Your Life When You Can’t Opt Out
Internet

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Jan 3, 2021

The Best Docuseries of 2020 was Murder on Middle Beach.

No spoilers here, just vibes Twenty-nine year old Madison Hamburg is the series’ director, documenting his own investigation of his mother’s gruesome murder in an affluent Connecticut suburb. She was killed when he was 18. The murder went unsolved. This is exactly the kind of thing I wouldn’t watch over…

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The Best Docuseries of 2020 was Murder on Middle Beach.
The Best Docuseries of 2020 was Murder on Middle Beach.
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Dec 23, 2020

A 2020 Story Told Through Art History Memes

Life Imitates Art —

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A 2020 Story Told Through Art History Memes
A 2020 Story Told Through Art History Memes
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Meghan Gunn

Meghan Gunn

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Meghan Gunn is a writer. https://www.meghangunn.com/ tweeting @95gunn

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