Steadfast and Smelly: In Defense of Awkwardly Odored Kids
by: Eugene Cain It took me a long time to embrace my identity as a smelly kid. When I think about it, it’s probably an identity I’ve had my whole […]
Category Archives: Memoir
It Gets Butter: Preamble
by: Patrick Gill It Gets Butter is a new column for In Our Words that complies recipes and stories that go along with them from the author/cooks life. It is […]
Amber: Part 1
by: Caitlin Bergh Amber. She was the first person I was in love with who loved me back. She had brown hair that just barely grazed her shoulders; it was […]
Coconut Love: Tales of a Closeted Virgin
by: Caitlin Bergh When I was a sophomore in college, I was sitting in my room doing homework one afternoon when I overheard some friends in the hallway talking about […]
Remembering My Internet Boyfriend
by: Zach Stafford The other night, while at dinner with my roommate and a friend, the subject of Lena Dunham’s show Girls came up. At the time, I had not seen the […]
Girl World Criminal: My Pubic Shame
by: Caitlin Bergh When I was growing up, I had the white, middle-class privilege of going to sleep away camp. It was a beautiful all-girls camp on a lake, where […]
Mirror’s Remnants: Moving Beyond an Eating Disorder
by: Michael Overman For many, the topic of eating disorders is a difficult one, especially if one has been diagnosed or suffered from symptoms of one. Fortunately or unfortunately, most […]
Things I Wish I Knew Before the Times I Came Out
by: Amanda Owens I wish I knew before coming out the first time that I would have to do it again… and again… and again. Media and society seem […]
Unhappy Birthday: Why Better Communication Can Fix Friendships
by: Troy On the 21st, I celebrated 42 years on the planet (32 years aesthetically). Yay. Birthdays have become kinda, well, bittersweet for me, especially the older I get. But […]
Transcending: The Fat, The Skinny and the Truth
by: Troy It was only recently that I discovered that 0g trans fats did not actually mean that I wouldn’t become fat and trans. Not that I am fat, but […]
