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Published inHuman Parts

·Jul 29, 2021

Calling All Storytellers

The Medium Writers Challenge is now live and waiting for your entries — Human Parts has long been a place for stories that make readers feel, think, and, we hope, consider what it means to be a person in the world. If you’re reading this, maybe you’re a writer yourself — or have always wanted to try it. …

Mwc Reentry

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Mwc Reentry

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Published inHuman Parts

·Jan 12, 2021

You wanna get married, or what?

LEVEL columnist Aliya S. King got hitched last year, and she came away with some advice for anyone thinking about popping the question: no Jumbotrons, first of all. Also, consider asking what type of heavy metal your partner wants to wear on their hand for the foreseeable future. …

Relationships

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Relationships

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Published inHuman Parts

·Dec 22, 2020

Our favorite stories from a year like no other

29 reads to catch up on while we take a break — We’ve finally reached the end of 2020, and we sort of can’t believe it. Yes, “years” are just constructs, but at this point we’ll take a symbolic refresh wherever we can find one. …

Stories

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Stories

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Published inHuman Parts

·Dec 10, 2020

“Naming what I want, and actually following through, feels like I’ve gotten away with something. It’s fascinating how attempts at centering myself feel like stealing.”

In Ashley C. Ford’s latest “Five Things” essay, she reflects on the feeling of getting what you want (among other things). I Wish There Was a Place Where I Could Stand Still Saying no is getting easier. I’m remembering how much I don’t need and never wanted.ashleycford.www.baixiangren.com

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“Naming what I want, and actually following through, feels like I’ve gotten away with something. It’s fascinating how attempts at centering myself feel like stealing.”

InAshley C. Ford’s latest “Five Things” essay, she reflects onthe feeling of getting what you want (among other things).

I Wish There Was a Place Where I Could Stand Still
                             Saying no is getting easier. I’m remembering how much I don’t need and never wanted.
                            
ashleycford.www.baixiangren.com

Published inHuman Parts

·Nov 24, 2020

Stories for a Very Different Kind of Thanksgiving

11 perspectives on food, family, and American history — Before we log off to join our respective Zoom Thanksgivings, we wanted to share a few memorable perspectives on this holiday — how it started, the stories we tell ourselves about it, and what it means to give thanks (especially this year). You’ll find humor, revisionist history, and some advice…

More To That

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Stories for a Very Different Kind of Thanksgiving

More To That

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Published inHuman Parts

·Nov 20, 2020

On clothes that remind you who you are

“Black jeans are like fishnets, though — the right ones seem to come with lessons on how to wear them and what to do while wearing them that arrive when you put them on,” writes Alexander Chee in a post about the jeans that are getting him through quarantine. …

Style

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Style

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Published inHuman Parts

·Nov 4, 2020

Congratulations to Human Parts alum Sarah McBride on her win as the first out transgender state…

Congratulations to Human Parts alum Sarah McBride on her win as the first out transgender state senator in U.S. history. We’ve been fans of Sarah since reading this moving tribute to her late husband, Andy, who she met fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Washington, D.C. To the Husband I Lost at 24 Fighting inequality brought us together, fighting cancer made us inseparablehumanparts.www.baixiangren.com

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To the Husband I Lost at 24
                             Fighting inequality brought us together, fighting cancer made us inseparable
                            
humanparts.www.baixiangren.com

Published inHuman Parts

·Nov 2, 2020

Your election day survival kit

If 2020 hasn’t taught us this lesson already, we’re about to learn it: Humans have a hard time dealing with uncertainty. It evokes fear. Anxiety. An obsession with hitting “refresh” on [insert your rabbithole of choice] until the world makes even less sense than it did before. But uncertainty also…

Election 2020

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Election 2020

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Published inHuman Parts

·Oct 30, 2020

The joys and sorrows of fan mail

Sending a cold email — especially to someone you admire — is a modern leap of faith. You want to strike the right tone: complimentary, brief, earnest. You delete an exclamation point and re-add it two seconds later. …

Space

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Space

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Published inHuman Parts

·Oct 28, 2020

“The worst part is knowing there are so many women that won’t get these quiet moments of joy from strangers. I beg you to please share your stories and to please be kind to those pouring their hearts out. Be kind in general, as some won’t pour them out at all.”

chrissy teigen shares a heartfelt essay about losing her son. Hi. I had no idea when I would be ready to write this. Part of me thought it would be early on, when I was still really…chrissyteigen.www.baixiangren.com

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“The worst part is knowing there are so many women that won’t get these quiet moments of joy from strangers. I beg you to please share your stories and to please be kind to those pouring their hearts out. Be kind in general, as some won’t pour them out at all.”

chrissy teigen shares a heartfelt essay about losing her son.

Hi.
                             I had no idea when I would be ready to write this. Part of me thought it would be early on, when I was still really…
                            
chrissyteigen.www.baixiangren.com