marriage
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Love, Afro-Brazilian Style: Afrodengo Is Making It Easier to Find Black Love in Brazil
Thaisa Moreira Xavier met her husband in a Facebook group. Although she was conscious of her Afro-Brazilian heritage, she had few black friends growing up. The city she lived in and schools she attended were mostly white. But when she moved to Campinas, a city of 1 million approximately two hours outside of Sao Paulo,…
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Time’s Up on Men Telling Single Women How to Be Worthy of Marriage
The straights are at it again. Over the weekend, singer Ciara caused an internet stir when she posted on Instagram a clip from a sermon by Houston’s Lakewood megachurch pastor John Gray telling single women why they’re not married. “Too many women want to be married but you’re walking in the spirit of ‘girlfriend,’” Pastor…
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Living Single: I May Never Get Married—and I’m Fine With That
“I may never get married,” I said. At 22, what seemed like a statement of fact to me brought a look of horror to the face of my friend’s mother. “Don’t say that!” she said. From the alarm in her voice, it was clear she felt that I’d put a curse on my soul and…
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Is Infidelity Inevitable?
In 2009 a family friend I hadn’t seen since I was a kid came into Chicago for a work conference and took me out for drinks. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the conversation of a woman who was a little under twice my age at the time, but certainly not what I received:…
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Ask Agatha, or Don’t: Unsolicited Advice to a Woman Who’s Afraid to Be a Nag
On Friday I read a Harper’s Bazaar piece by Gemma Hartley about the burden of emotional labor, and it left me baffled. To be fair, living in Trump’s America, I find myself spending more and more of my time baffled, befuddled and downright confused. I often wonder if I’m drifting away from center or if…
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Milo Yiannopoulos Marries a Black Man
He may be the world’s biggest racist and transphobic troll, but that didn’t stop Milo Yiannopoulos from marrying a black man. Yiannopoulos and his longtime boyfriend, identified only as John, got married over the weekend in Hawaii. Yiannopoulos shared select photos of his husband on social media while carefully hiding his face. Because, honestly, if…
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I Finally Found the One Who Passed the Wifey Test
Can you hear that sigh? It’s the collective sound of women across the globe weeping upon learning that I, Stephen A. Crockett Jr., have gotten married. I know, ladies, and I assure you that there is someone out here for you, but that someone just isn’t me. Fine. Whatever. No one cares. In fact, my…