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(Almost) There and Back Again: What I’ve Learned From My Hiking Misadventures - The Doe
(Wealthy) People Say the Darnedest Things in Kitchens - The Doe
A 'Chopped' FAQ: What It’s Like Competing on the Food Network - The Doe
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the World of Freelance Writing - The Doe
A Communication Crisis: How Scientific Standards Get in the Way of Explaining Climate Change - The Doe
A Consumer DNA Test Strained My Marriage and My Family’s Privacy - The Doe
A DNA Test Revealed Family Secrets That Changed Everything - The Doe
A Day in the Life of a CPS Social Worker: It’s a Mess - The Doe
A Day in the Life of an AM Radio News Anchor - The Doe
A Dream Delayed: What It’s Like to Be an Olympian Waiting for the Tokyo Games - The Doe
A Farmer Reflects: A Letter From Patagonia and Another Back - The Doe
A Fellow Inmate's Love Saved My Life in Prison - The Doe
A Lifetime of Non-Religious Indifference: How My Jewish Tradition Is Socialism - The Doe
A Major News Outlet Screwed Me - The Doe
A Media Career Is Inaccessible Without Money - The Doe
A Perspective on the Vulnerability of Solo Female Travel - The Doe
A Poor Indian Man Taught Me True Generosity - The Doe
A Skydiving Accident in Switzerland Changed My Life - The Doe
A Stranger on the Subway Found My Laptop When I Needed It the Most - The Doe
A Westward Road Trip Changed Our Lives Forever - The Doe
Abortion on Demand Offered Me and My Family a Life - The Doe
Abracadabra! I’m Living Out My Dream as a Professional Magician - The Doe
Accepting My Fat Body Helped Me Pursue a Food Career - The Doe
Acts of Kindness - What's Good - The Doe
Actuarial Risk Assessments in Criminal Justice Do Not Work - The Doe
Addiction Is Nostalgic: How Time Was Structured When I Was Drinking - The Doe
Addiction Made Me a Sacred Monster - The Doe
Adventure - Going Places - The Doe
After 18 Years in Prison, I Rebuilt My Relationship With Home - The Doe
After 39 Years in Prison, I Got Out in the Midst of the Pandemic - The Doe
After Having Suicidal Thoughts, I Rediscovered My Self-Worth - The Doe
After I Was Hit by a Car, a GoFundMe Saved the Day - The Doe
Alcoholics Anonymous Is My Religion - The Doe
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Alone in Greece: How a Near-Death Experience Changed My Life - The Doe
Am I a Lesbian? - The Doe
Am I an Imposter at the University of Cambridge? - The Doe
American Pickers: What I Learned Sorting Through the Trash of the One Percent - The Doe
American Stories - Stories from Verified Writers - The Doe
Americans Have No Idea What They're Missing With Their Healthcare: An Ode to the NHS - The Doe
America’s Reproductive Future Is Reminiscent of Romania’s Past - The Doe
Amidst Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis, the People Are Coming Together - The Doe
An Apartment Fire Burned My Art—I’m Still Healing - The Doe
An Appeal to My Fellow Citizens of Portland: It's Time to Come Together - The Doe
An Endless Cycle: Trying Not to Believe Conspiracy Theories - The Doe
An Illegal Abortion Could Have Killed My Mother - The Doe
An Iraq War Veteran’s Story: How I Got My Purple Heart - The Doe
An Open Father's Day Letter to My Dad, Who Walked Out on Us - The Doe
An Unarmed Black Man Was Killed at the School Where I Work - The Doe
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Antidepressants Didn’t Work for Me but Ketamine Does - The Doe
Architectural Solutions to Climate Change and Humanity's Future - The Doe
Art Is an Essential Business: A Musician Reflects on the Pandemic - The Doe
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As My Son Fought for His Life, Other People Made All the Difference - The Doe
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As a Female Trump Supporter, I Believe Feminism Is Selfish - The Doe
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As a Journalist, I’ve Been Trolled Online: This Is Why It Needs to Stop - The Doe
As the Pandemic Fades, Street Style Is Back: I Couldn’t Be Happier - The Doe
As the Victim of a Violent Man, I Feel Like I’m Being Silenced - The Doe
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Baseball Is Dying: How Successful Youth Programs Can Bring It Back - The Doe
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Befriending My Doppelganger - The Doe
Behind the Scenes: I'm a Car Saleswoman - The Doe
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Being a Stay-at-Home Mom: Still Not Fair in 2020 - The Doe
Being a Stepmom in the Age of Internet Parenting Is a Special Kind of Hell - The Doe
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Being the Mistress's Daughter Makes Me an Outsider in My Family - The Doe
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Beyoncé’s Music Has Helped Me Through It All - The Doe
Biases Come In Many Forms—and Neutrality Is One of Them - The Doe
Big Dicks Are Overrated - The Doe
Bigger Than Beeple: NFTs, Digital Art and the Future of the Metaverse - The Doe
Billy Joel Sucks (and It Only Took Me 30 Years to Realize It) - The Doe
Bioregional Herbalism: How Learning About Surrounding Plant Life Changes Your World - The Doe
Bipolar Disorder Almost Wrecked My Life - The Doe
Birth Strike: Coming to Terms With Climate Grief - The Doe
Black CEOs Won't Save Us: On the Music Industry and the White Gaze - The Doe
Black Lives Still Matter When the News Cycle Ends: Where Does BLM Go From Here? - The Doe
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Bring Back the Old Internet: Social Media Is Turning Us Into Homogeneous Beings - The Doe
Broken Cycle: Working at a Juvenile Detention Center Opened My Eyes - The Doe
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COVID Killed Our Dream Restaurant - The Doe
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COVID-19 Forced a Year Without Roller Derby: I'm Rolling On - The Doe
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COVID-19 Isn’t Just Killing People: It’s Killing My Relationship With My Alt-Right Family - The Doe
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COVID-19 Made Grades Disappear; Here's Why We Shouldn't Bring Them Back - The Doe
Callejera: Finding My Queerness on the Bus - The Doe
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Cancer Didn’t Kill My Mother; Depression Did - The Doe
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China Is Miles Ahead: A Look Into Life Transformed by Technology - The Doe
Classical Music Saved Me - The Doe
Climate Change - Stories from Verified Writers - The Doe
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Climate Change: Why Individual Responsibility Is So Important - The Doe
Climate Grief and the Hopelessness of Reversing Climate Change - The Doe
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Collection - On the Record - The Doe
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Community Management Is a Shareholder Capitalism Cover-Up - The Doe
Confessions of a Pop Publicist: I've Got a Front-Row Seat to Media's Decline - The Doe
Conscious Consumerism Is a Foreign Concept to Americans - The Doe
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Coronavirus, Bill Gates & Vaccines: How I Became a Conspiracy Theorist - The Doe
Cotton Is Stained by Slavery’s Legacy—So I Threw Out My Cotton Clothes - The Doe
Crimmigration: I Was Detained by ICE for Two Years and I’m Still Fighting the Power - The Doe
Dad and His Little Wives: I Found Out My Father’s Been Cheating for Most of My Life - The Doe
Dad and Me: The Complicated Relationship That Never Existed - The Doe
Dancehall Music Has Become My Community’s Therapy - The Doe
Dancing in the Street: How Solo Travel Reintroduced Me to Myself - The Doe
Dark Days in Ukraine: A Cameraman’s War Diary – Part One - The Doe
Dark Days in Ukraine: A Cameraman’s War Diary – Part Two - The Doe
Dear Michelle Obama: A Letter From London - The Doe
Dear Parents: I Love You but Don't Like You - The Doe
Dear Victoria's Secret: Femvertising Is a Facade; Empowerment Comes From Within - The Doe
Death at Dartmoor Prison: Who Killed Dennis Stevens? - The Doe
Delta and Me: I’m Fully Vaccinated and Still Got a Breakthrough COVID-19 Infection - The Doe
Detective Therapy: How Podcasting About an Unknown Comedian Changed My Life - The Doe
Discovering My Asexuality: The Ace Up My Sleeve - The Doe
Do Psychedelic Drugs, Free Your Mind - The Doe
Do We Repeat Our Parents’ Mistakes? Yes. That's Okay. - The Doe
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Does Anybody Drink More Than Writers? - The Doe
Does My Lack of Interest in the Climate Crisis Make Me a Bad Person? - The Doe
Donald Trump’s Fascism Made Me Love Guns Again - The Doe
Don’t Tell Anybody: My Journey of Shame and Forgiveness Through Bankruptcy - The Doe
Dropping Out of High School Saved My Life - The Doe
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Education Saved My Life - The Doe
Educational Technology Is Important and COVID Proves It - The Doe
Embracing My Muslim Identity in America Is Impossible - The Doe
Embracing My Roots: Why I'm Choosing Judaism Over Christianity - The Doe
Emotional Abuse at Work Wasn't Worth Working With Celebrities - The Doe
Environment - Common Ground - The Doe
Environmentalism Is Full of Hypocrisy and Elitism - The Doe
Equestrian Sports Are Still Too Rich and White - The Doe
Everything I Need to Know About Economics I Learned From Uncle Frank in 'Home Alone' - The Doe
Extreme Outdoor Adventures Taught Me More About Femininity Than Being a Debutante Ever Did - The Doe
Facebook Is Not the Problem - The Doe
Fear and Loathing in the Restaurant Biz - The Doe
Femdom Power: How I Shed My Feminism for Matriarchy - The Doe
Figure Skating Made Me Who I Am—But It Isn’t All I’m Going to Be - The Doe
Finding My Roots Through Mystical Cooking - The Doe
Finding My Sanity Through the Mist: A Zen Koan - The Doe
Firewalking: My Baby Died in My Arms and My Partner Blamed Me - The Doe
Five Years of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: 50 Years a Victim - The Doe
Following in My Dad’s Footsteps Nearly Got Me Killed - The Doe
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Football Runs the Show: What It's Like to Be a Neglected High School Wrestler - The Doe
Forever a Bulldog: I Survived Reform School - The Doe
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Fourteen Years Later, I Told My Father How His Pro-Life Beliefs Almost Killed Me - The Doe
Freelance Writing Is Still the Wild West - The Doe
Freelancing Sucks: My Professional Writer’s Group Is Really Just Toxic, Neoliberal Self-Help - The Doe
Friend, Foe or Source? In Politics, It’s Tricky - The Doe
From Victim to Survivor: How Female Genital Mutilation Changed My Life - The Doe
From Zero to 65 Sexual Partners: Basing My Self-Worth on Sex - The Doe
Gardening in Alaska Is Not Easy: I Learned the Hard Way - The Doe
Gaslit, Transitioning and a Girl's Loss: The Surprising Gender Euphoria of Misogyny - The Doe
Gen Z and Social Media Are a Bomb Waiting to Explode - The Doe
Getting Cut by a Sports Team: MLB, Understanding Failure and Me - The Doe
Getting Lost Hiking Path of the Gods Was the Best Day of My Life - The Doe
Go Outside and Find Your Wild - The Doe
Going Viral Because of Trump Changed My Life - The Doe
Gone Fish: The Beautiful Lakes of Kashmir Are Vanishing - The Doe
Goodbye, Dad: I Said It All as He Died of Cancer - The Doe
Goosebumps - Stories from Verified Writers - The Doe
Greatness Isn’t Achieved With Participation Trophies - The Doe
Grenfell Tower: A Monument to the Exploitation of Kindness - The Doe
Growing Up Muslim in a Post-9/11 America: What It Was Like - The Doe
Growing Up With Four TV Channels Helped Me Make the Best Of Life’s Obstacles - The Doe
Growing Up in Haiti Taught Me the Power of Music - The Doe
Growing Up in an Interfaith Family Taught Me Love and Respect - The Doe
Having an Orgasm During Rape: I Believed the Myth and Sought Violent Sex - The Doe
Healing My Social Media Addiction - The Doe
Health - Get Well Soon - The Doe
Healthcare for All Must Include Trans-Related Care - The Doe
Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple: Here’s What Singing in a Choir Has Taught Me About People - The Doe
Hey, Sweetie: The Complicated World of Catcalling in 2020 - The Doe
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Stigma of Nurses With Mental Illness - The Doe
Homeschooling Doesn’t Make You a Freak (or a Jesus Freak) - The Doe
How 'Schitt's Creek' Helped Get Me Through My Divorce - The Doe
How Alcoholics Anonymous Almost Killed Me - The Doe
How COVID-19 Is Shaping the Future of the Music Industry - The Doe
How Conspiracy Theories Led Me to Christianity - The Doe
How Do You Dress for Therapy as a Sexual Assault Survivor? - The Doe
How Eating Pigeons Reduced My Food Carbon Footprint - The Doe
How Fashion Shows Helped Me Find Myself and Build a Community - The Doe
How I Accidentally Became a Follower of a Hindu Guru - The Doe
How I Avoided (Most of) the Pandemic in Vietnam - The Doe
How I Deal With My Non-Vegan Family - The Doe
How I Deal With My Racist, White Family - The Doe
How I Dealt With a Teenage Epilepsy Diagnosis - The Doe
How I Discovered My Mind Control Fetish - The Doe
How I Fell in Love During My Ho Phase - The Doe
How I Grew Out of My Conservative Style and Found Confidence - The Doe
How I Learned to Cope With Mental Illness as a Division I Swimmer - The Doe
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How I Made My Hobby Into a Hustle - The Doe
How I Make Sure My Spiritual Institution Doesn’t Become a Cult - The Doe
How I Moved to New York and Survived as an Actress - The Doe
How I Overcame Yo-Yo Dieting and My Bad Relationship With Food - The Doe
How I Recorded the First Longmont Potion Castle Album - The Doe
How I Try to Learn With Autism - The Doe
How I’ve Learned to Cope With Toilet Anxiety - The Doe
How My Anxiety Disorder Changed the Way I Raised My Children - The Doe
How My Cat Taught Me to Respect Boundaries - The Doe
How My Dream Job as an Editor Became a Living Nightmare - The Doe
How My Stepmom Helped Me Celebrate Mother’s Day Again - The Doe
How My Teacher Changed My Life in High School - The Doe
How Nichiren Buddhism Taught Me to Believe in Myself - The Doe
How Nora Ephron Gave a Brown Woman the Courage to Write - The Doe
How Quitting Porn Helped Me Embrace My Pubic Hair - The Doe
How Shamanism Is Helping Me Heal From Sexual Trauma - The Doe
How Tripping on Acid Helped Me Embrace My Femininity - The Doe
How Twins With Different Skin Colors Perceive Racial Identity - The Doe
How Walking Transformed My Life for the Better - The Doe
How We Can Teach in the Wake of George Floyd - The Doe
How Working at a Children’s Magazine Made Me Hopeful - The Doe
How Yoga Helped Me Overcome Fear and Discover My Passion - The Doe
How a Changing World Is Affecting Our Children's Development - The Doe
How a Limp in My Right Leg Led to Discovering I Had Brain Cancer - The Doe
How a Stranger Helped Me Overcome My Fear of Flying - The Doe
How a Tiny Token of Humanity Showed Me Anyone Can Improve the World - The Doe
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How the Quarantine Brought Me Closer to God - The Doe
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Hurricane Ida: The Night I Barely Survived a Flash Flood - The Doe
I Accidentally Made a Porno at Work - The Doe
I Accidentally Pooped on My Boyfriend During Sex - The Doe
I Almost Worked for an Outdoor Gear Company: Here’s Why I’m Glad I Didn’t - The Doe
I Always Want to Be Higher: Inside the Mind of a Drug Addict - The Doe
I Am Addicted to the Digital World - The Doe
I Am My Mother's Daughter—and Her Son - The Doe
I Am Named After My Least Favorite Person: My Father - The Doe
I Am a Law Enforcer Who Breaks the Law - The Doe
I Am a Muslim Woman and I Am Victim of Toxic Masculinity - The Doe
I Am a Stay-at-Home-Dad and I Am Proud of It - The Doe
I Am in Ukraine: This Is What It's Like - The Doe
I Am the Son of an Alcoholic Preacher - The Doe
I Attended a Faith and Climate Action Workshop That Changed My Worldview - The Doe
I Became Addicted to Chatting With Strangers Online - The Doe
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I Became an Escort at 18 - The Doe
I Believe You Should Always Wear a Mask: Sometimes, I Forget - The Doe
I Bought an RV and Drove Across the United States - The Doe
I Can't Fall In Love: What Is Wrong With Me? - The Doe
I Can’t Remember Anything Before the Age of 14—but My Body Does - The Doe
I Carry My Native American Ancestors With Me - The Doe
I Chaperone High School Students Abroad: Sanity Not Included - The Doe
I Choose Having Fun Over Having a Career - The Doe
I Cleaned Up My Community and Answered an Ancestral Calling - The Doe
I Collect Perfume Bottles to Remind Me of Everywhere I’ve Been - The Doe
I Contracted Flesh-Eating Bacteria From a Blood Transfusion - The Doe
I Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Started Messaging Celebrities - The Doe
I Crossed the Border as a Child: Poverty Lines and Ancestral Expectations - The Doe
I Date Sugar Daddies; Everybody Should - The Doe
I Dealt With Sibling Survivor Guilt After My Sister's Death - The Doe
I Debate Conservatives on Facebook and You Should, Too - The Doe
I Didn't Celebrate When My Best Friend's Mom Was Cancer-Free - The Doe
I Didn't Understand Allyship Until I Stopped Dating White Men - The Doe
I Discovered My White Privilege as a Child Actor in Mexico - The Doe
I Discovered the Family I Never Knew I Had - The Doe
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I Don't Know You, Let's Live Together: Traveling With a Stranger During the Pandemic - The Doe
I Don’t Buy Trump’s Use of Christianity and Neither Should You - The Doe
I Don’t Have Kids: Stop Making Me Host Mother’s Day - The Doe
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I Gave Up Eating Meat for a Man - The Doe
I Gave Up on My Cottagecore Fantasy: You Should Too - The Doe
I Got Amnesia From a Brain Cyst and Lost a Full Year of Memories - The Doe
I Got Kicked Off of YouTube for Telling the Truth About Steroids - The Doe
I Got My Dream Job Globetrotting in the Music Industry and I Hated It - The Doe
I Got in Early on WallStreetBets: How a Bunch of Nobodies Flipped the Tables on Wall Street - The Doe
I Got the Vaccine—But I’m Not Allowed to Talk About It - The Doe
I Grew Up Poor and Went to Boarding School; It Didn’t End Well - The Doe
I Grew Up With ‘Friends’—It Needs to Stay in the Past - The Doe
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I Grew Up in the Hindu Faith, but Now I’m a Nonbeliever - The Doe
I Grew Up on a Family Farm, and Now I Have One of My Own - The Doe
I Had My First-Ever Breakup During the Coronavirus Pandemic - The Doe
I Had Trouble Getting Pregnant, Until the Coronavirus - The Doe
I Had a Front-Row Seat to the COVID-19 Culture Wars - The Doe
I Had a Nervous Breakdown After Being Black-Pilled - The Doe
I Had an Abortion in the 1980s: My Ex Called Me a Murderer - The Doe
I Had an Affair When I Was Younger: Here’s What I Learned - The Doe
I Had an Affair With My Best Friend’s Husband - The Doe
I Had an Affair: It Was the Best Decision I’ve Ever Made - The Doe
I Hand Out Free Crack Pipes to Save Lives - The Doe
I Hate Religion, but I Love Churches - The Doe
I Hated My NFL Dream Job: How I Survived the Toxic Environment of Professional Sports - The Doe
I Have Agoraphobia—and You Might Too - The Doe
I Have Been Defeated by My Pants - The Doe
I Have Coronavirus Inside of California’s San Quentin Prison - The Doe
I Have Dermatophagia: I Hide My Hands in Public - The Doe
I Have Witnessed Government Surveillance Firsthand, and We Should Be Very Afraid - The Doe
I Have an Eating Disorder; the Coronavirus Pandemic Isn’t Helping My Recovery - The Doe
I Help People Discover Themselves Through Tantric Sex - The Doe
I Help Show Students That the United States Isn’t the Best Country in the World - The Doe
I Hid My Jewish Identity Throughout High School - The Doe
I Hid the Man I Loved From My Family Because of My Religion and It Destroyed Us - The Doe
I Hitchhiked From London to Morocco - The Doe
I Hope Coming Out as Bi Causes Chaos in My Homophobic Family - The Doe
I Ignore Racism Today; You Should Too - The Doe
I Improved My Mental Health With Self-Care and Love - The Doe
I Ingested Far-Right Propaganda; Here’s How I Learned to Spit It Out - The Doe
I Inherited the Best and Worst of My Father’s Bipolar Disorder - The Doe
I Joined Parler So I Wouldn’t Be Censored - The Doe
I Joined the Actors Union and Became Broke - The Doe
I Keep Souvenirs of My Broken Friendships - The Doe
I Learned About Having a Healthy Marriage Through My Parents' Love Letters - The Doe
I Left Islam and Came Back Again: My Complicated Relationship With My Faith - The Doe
I Left My Cushy Corporate Gig to Become a Stand-Up Comedian - The Doe
I Left My Family Group Chat for My Mental Health - The Doe
I Left the Catholic Church and Found Everything in Nothing - The Doe
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I Lived in Sheikh Jarrah; What I Saw There Shocked Me - The Doe
I Lived in Two Countries During the Pandemic: Both of Them Failed to Solve It - The Doe
I Lost My Dad to COVID-19: Rewriting the Stages of Grief - The Doe
I Lost My Home in a Wildfire - The Doe
I Lost My Mom to QAnon - The Doe
I Lost My Pride When I Came Out to My Muslim Family - The Doe
I Lost My Virginity at 31 - The Doe
I Love Horses, but the Equestrian World Crushed Me - The Doe
I Love Shoplifting From Whole Foods - The Doe
I Love Someone I've Never Met - The Doe
I Love Sugar, but I Can’t Eat It Anymore - The Doe
I Love Wearing Rings: They Tell the Story of My Life - The Doe
I Make Memes to Cope - The Doe
I Married Into an Italian Family: Here’s What They Taught Me About Food - The Doe
I Miscarried While the News Ran Stories of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned - The Doe
I Miss the Golden Age of Myspace - The Doe
I Miss the Summer of Lockdown - The Doe
I Moved to India for Three Months and Learned How to Hitchhike - The Doe
I Moved to a New Country—Now I Live Two Parallel Lives - The Doe
I Moved to a Remote Indian Village During the COVID-19 Pandemic - The Doe
I Often Feel I Have to Choose Between My Gender Identity and Professional Community - The Doe
I Pimped My Feet Out to a Frenchman - The Doe
I Quit Nursing Because of the Pandemic: I Am Never Going Back - The Doe
I Quit Watching Porn and It Changed My Life - The Doe
I Ran My Own Restaurant—Into the Ground - The Doe
I Received the COVID-19 Vaccine; Here's What To Expect - The Doe
I Reclaimed My Grandparents’ Polish Citizenship to Move Overseas - The Doe
I Rediscovered Myself in the Ruins of a Lost City - The Doe
I Refuse to Ignore My Daddy Issues - The Doe
I Regret Having a Baby I Never Wanted - The Doe
I Saw British Classism Firsthand as a Working-Class London Waitress - The Doe
I See the Results of Human Trafficking Every Day - The Doe
I Shut Down My Escort Business Due to Violence Against Sex Workers - The Doe
I Smoke Weed Every Day for Pain Relief and I’ve Never Been More Productive - The Doe
I Spent My Inheritance on Stuff I Don’t Need - The Doe
I Started Dressing for Comfort and Gained My Confidence Back - The Doe
I Started Transitioning in My 60s: I’m Happier Than I’ve Ever Been - The Doe
I Suffered From Postpartum Depression and No One Noticed - The Doe
I Support the Right to Have an Abortion, but I Deeply Regret My Own - The Doe
I Survived My Gaslighting Family, but I'm Still Getting Over It - The Doe
I Survived a Boy Band Twitter Mob - The Doe
I Survived the Texas Winter Storm - The Doe
I Teach Electives; They’re No Joke - The Doe
I Teach to Love - The Doe
I Thought I Was Going to Die and Then Had the Best Sex of My Life on the Great Wall of China - The Doe
I Took Off the Hijab: Here’s Why - The Doe
I Trained Athletes in a Toxic Environment - The Doe
I Tried to Hide My Pakistani Heritage for Too Long - The Doe
I Unknowingly Fell in Love With a Trans Person - The Doe
I Used Fashion to Hide a Serious Illness - The Doe
I Used To Hide My Foster Kid Identity—Now I’m Embracing It - The Doe
I Used to Want Religion Out of Government; Now I Want God Back In - The Doe
I Voted Conservative in the U.K.'s 2019 Election: It Was the Worst Mistake I’ve Ever Made - The Doe
I Want Preventative Botox Because I'm Insecure, Not Empowered - The Doe
I Was A Straight-A Student: Education Ruined My Life - The Doe
I Was Adopted: My Parents and the Significance of Selflessness - The Doe
I Was Born and Raised in Scientology's Sea Organization - The Doe
I Was Bullied for Being Gay as a Kid Even Though I’m Straight - The Doe
I Was Fired for Being Gay, but Now I'm Free - The Doe
I Was Followed on the Subway and a Stranger Saved Me - The Doe
I Was Homophobic Until My Best Friend Came Out to Me - The Doe
I Was Laid Off From My Sports Arena Job Because of COVID-19 - The Doe
I Was Raped. Then I Got Kicked Off of Hinge. - The Doe
I Was So Bad at Coaching That Now My Son Doesn't Like Sports - The Doe
I Was Staunchly Pro-Choice. I Was Shocked When My Abortion Was Devastating - The Doe
I Was Thrown Into a Ukrainian Refugee Camp - The Doe
I Was Trained to Be a Sex Toy by My Abusive Ex - The Doe
I Was Traumatized by the LAPD; It’s Happening All Over Again - The Doe
I Was Wrongfully Convicted: 25 Years in Prison - The Doe
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The NBA Is More Liberal Than Hollywood - The Doe
The Night I Broke My Belt at Studio 54 - The Doe
The People vs. the Red Hand of China: Documenting the Hong Kong Protests - The Doe
The Perils Of Having A Micropenis - The Doe
The Pervasive Racism of Upper-Class Jews - The Doe
The Politicization of Science Is Causing America to Fall Behind - The Doe
The Pressure of Black Excellence Was Bad for My Mental Health - The Doe
The Promise of Technology Is a Threat to Our Biology - The Doe
The Record Industry Thrives on the Exploitation of Young Rappers - The Doe
The Road and a Robbery: 52 Weeks Traveling With My Fiance - The Doe
The Rocky Road to Forgiving My Parents - The Doe
The Scars of The Troubles Live on Through Two Generations of My Family - The Doe
The Secret to My Health Was at the Grocery Store, Not the Doctor’s Office - The Doe
The Shit of Justice: Disability Rights, Crohn's Disease and Me - The Doe
The Superstars Next Door: The State of Women's Soccer in the U.S. - The Doe
The System Is Built to Keep You Down: It's Not Just COVID-19 That Crushed My Bank Account - The Doe
The Tales of Peter: A Battle of Drug Addiction in the Service Industry - The Doe
The Taliban Just Waltzed Back Into Afghanistan: What Was My Military Service For? - The Doe
The Tech World Obsession With Scalability Killed My Passion Project - The Doe
The Traumatic Impact of the Foster Care System: A New American Slavery - The Doe
The Two-Party System Must Die: Why I’m Fiercely Independent - The Doe
The Ugly Side of Working as a Food Delivery Driver - The Doe
The Vegan Trend Is on the Rise and Here to Stay—Here’s Why - The Doe
The Welsh Language Is Endangered—I’m Doing My Best to Preserve It - The Doe
The Worst Job I Ever Had Was at a Celebrity Philanthropy Agency - The Doe
The Worst People I Have Ever Known Have Worked in Fashion - The Doe
There Is No Freedom in Women's Fashion - The Doe
They Called Me 'Whale': My Journey Through Overeating - The Doe
They Never Tell You What Brain Surgery Cuts Out of You - The Doe
Think Big Tech Is a Danger in the U.S.? American Tech Is Far More Lethal Overseas. - The Doe
This Is What It's Like to Be a White-Passing Person of Color - The Doe
This Is What It’s Like to Date a Famous Actor - The Doe
This Too Shall Pass: What It’s Like Working at a Nursing Home in a Pandemic - The Doe
This Year, Let’s Be Grateful for the Chance to Have a Virtual Christmas - The Doe
Three Ways Sex Work Has Made Me a Better Business Owner - The Doe
To Be a Part of the Team, I Had to Hide My True Identity - The Doe
To Cope With Eco Anxiety, I Had to Come to Terms With Death - The Doe
To Treat My Chronic Fatigue, I Ditched Pills for Plants - The Doe
To the Moon! I’m Deep Into Crypto and Haven’t Gotten a Paycheck in Years - The Doe
Toxic Kitchen Culture Fosters Drug Abuse for Chefs and Cooks - The Doe
Tracing My Ancestral Roots Gave Me the Confidence My Father Denied Me - The Doe
Trans People Don’t Want to Control How You Talk - The Doe
Transcendental Meditation Eased My Worried Mind - The Doe
Trauma Made Me the Journalist I Am Today - The Doe
Travel - Stories from Verified Writers - The Doe
Traveling at Home: What It’s Like Hosting Couch Surfers - The Doe
True Love Comes From Within: A Therapist’s Perspective - The Doe
Trump’s Pandemic Response Was Fine; Here’s Who Really Failed - The Doe
Ukraine Is Changing, Yet Stays the Same - The Doe
Undocumented and White: The U.S. Immigration System Is Both Cruel and Colorblind - The Doe
Upcoming Curations
Urban Gleaning: The Backbone of My Beekeeping Business - The Doe
Vaginismus, Casual Sex and Me - The Doe
Virginia Ali: Dedicating Ben's Chili Bowl to Philanthropy - The Doe
Vitamin D and Me: The Little Pill That Made My COVID-19 World Stop Spinning - The Doe
Waking Up: Meritocracy in Education Must Be Dismantled - The Doe
Was My Childhood as Happy as I Remember It? - The Doe
Watching Iraq Burn: A Soldier's War Story - The Doe
Watching Trashy Reality TV Got Me Through a Friend's Death - The Doe
Wave Therapy: How I Stopped Living in Fear and Learned to Surf - The Doe
We Are Enough: The Uphill Battle of Being a Female Rugby Player - The Doe
We Are The Doe - Civil Discourse is Broken, Let's Change That
We Had 48 Hours: How Teachers Transformed the Education System Over a Weekend - The Doe
We Kept Our Sex Club Going Through Quarantine - The Doe
We Must Cultivate a Connection to the Natural World - The Doe
We Must Stop Poachers to Protect Wildlife - The Doe
We Need More Data Journalism to Reveal Biased Journalism - The Doe
We Need to Get Rid of Journalistic Objectivity - The Doe
We Need to Move Past the Autism Spectrum - The Doe
We’re Best Friends, Co-Workers and on the Opposite Sides of the Political Spectrum - The Doe
We’ve Come a Long Way Since the First Earth Day - The Doe
What Americans Can Learn From the Immigrant Spirit - The Doe
What Can Higher Education Offer Students in a Post-COVID-19 World? - The Doe
What Compulsive Shopping Taught Me About Body Image - The Doe
What Growing up Unvaccinated With Depression Was Like - The Doe
What Happened to My Body, My Choice? Why I Haven't Been Vaccinated - The Doe
What I Discovered About My Femininity When I Masturbated Almost Every Day for a Month - The Doe
What I Learned About Myself During My Extremely Cautious COVID-19 Isolation - The Doe
What I Learned From My Father's Undiagnosed Mental Illness - The Doe
What I Learned From My Ovarian Fibroma - The Doe
What I Learned as a TV News Intern - The Doe
What It Was Like Being a Stripper - The Doe
What It Was Like to Compete on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' - The Doe
What It's Been Like Living With a Binge Eating Disorder All of My Life - The Doe
What It's Like Having a Feminist Awakening in a Sexist Country - The Doe
What It's Like to Date With Herpes - The Doe
What It's Like to Date a Drug Addict - The Doe
What It's Like to Listen to Music With Synesthesia - The Doe
What It's Like to Live With My Daughter's Cystic Fibrosis - The Doe
What It's Like to Work With a Master Painter - The Doe
What It's Like to Work at a Congressional Newspaper - The Doe
What It’s Like Being Jewish in a Small Northern Mexico Town - The Doe
What It’s Like Being a Doctor During Ramadan - The Doe
What It’s Like Staying on Yemen’s Remote Socotra Island - The Doe
What It’s Like as a Jewish Woman Inside the IDF - The Doe
What It’s Like to Be a Female Coach in a Male-Dominated Field - The Doe
What It’s Like to Be a Raft Guide in Denali National Park - The Doe
What It’s Like to Lose Your Mom When You're 20 Years Old - The Doe
What It’s Like to Navigate the World With Borderline Personality Disorder - The Doe
What It’s Like to Speak Up for the Environment in Front of Oil Executives - The Doe
What I’ve Learned About Myself—and Society—Through Developing My Personal Style - The Doe
What Not to Talk About on a First Date? Definitely Gravity - The Doe
What Sex Trafficking Took From Me—and How I Took It Back - The Doe
What White Teachers Can Do to Combat Racism in Schools - The Doe
What You Learn When Your Band Becomes Famous - The Doe
What a Botched Surgery Has Taught Me About Gender Identity - The Doe
What’s It Like for an Actor in a Pandemic? Not Easy - The Doe
When Abortion Creates Life - The Doe
When Doctors and Lawmakers Failed Us, My Family Had to End My Father's Life - The Doe
When Life Lacked Flavor: COVID-19 and Taste Loss - The Doe
When My Father Died, I Turned to YouTube for Online Grief Support - The Doe
When My Life Fell Apart, Running a Bar Helped Me Put It Back Together - The Doe
When My Marriage Fell Apart, Sex Workers Helped Me Pick Up the Pieces - The Doe
When My Mom Passed Away, the Little Things Helped Me Through the Grief - The Doe
When My Mother Got Dementia, I Put My Career on Hold: I Wouldn’t Do It Again - The Doe
When My Parents Died, I Turned to Drugs and Alcohol - The Doe
When Your Dad Dies, Father's Day Gets Complicated - The Doe
Where Does Food Come From? You Probably Don’t Know - The Doe
White Supremacy Still Reigns in Silicon Valley - The Doe
Why Are People Afraid to Use the Word 'Queer'? - The Doe
Why Are We in Such a Hurry to Get Nowhere? - The Doe
Why Books Are Terrible: A Summary - The Doe
Why Do I Feel Guilty After Sex? My Christian Upbringing, That’s Why - The Doe
Why Fast Fashion and Feminism Are Conflicting Ideologies - The Doe
Why Fat-Shaming Is Bad for Personal and Public Health - The Doe
Why I Became a Public Defender and Why It’s a Privilege - The Doe
Why I Cut Up My Wedding Dress - The Doe
Why I Don't Want a Big Fat Desi Ceremony: The Problem With Modern Pakistani Wedding Culture - The Doe
Why I Don’t Tell Friends I Have Bipolar Disorder - The Doe
Why I Finally Feel I Can Be Open About My Suicide Attempt, 20 Years Later - The Doe
Why I Left Nursing Before COVID - The Doe
Why I Left the Catholic Priesthood - The Doe
Why I Quit Social Media - The Doe
Why I Solicit Dick Pics - The Doe
Why I Vote Pro-Life: I Helped My State Outlaw Abortion - The Doe
Why I Want My Daughter to Grow Up Selfish - The Doe
Why I Won't Take an Ancestry DNA Test - The Doe
Why I Won’t Have Sex Without Love - The Doe
Why I'm Afraid of My Ass - The Doe
Why I'm No Longer Catholic - The Doe
Why Is Women’s Clothing So Stupid? - The Doe
Why I’m Glad My Husband Has Terminal Cancer - The Doe
Why I’m Not Voting in 2020 - The Doe
Why I’m Saving My Virginity at 32 Years Old - The Doe
Why I’m Staying in a Boring and Unfulfilling Relationship - The Doe
Why I’m a Christian - The Doe
Why Raising Money for Political Campaigns Is Undemocratic - The Doe
Why Social Media Is a Bigger Problem Than Climate Change - The Doe
Why TikTok Made Me Hate Teenagers - The Doe
Why Women in Remote Jobs Still Aren’t Safe From Sexual Harassment - The Doe
Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Celebrities Talk About Politics - The Doe
Why the Paris Climate Agreement Is Bullshit - The Doe
Will I Be Left to Die in a Second Coronavirus Wave? - The Doe
Women - What She Said - The Doe
Women’s Water Polo: From Obscurity to NCAA Darling - The Doe
Working Red Carpets Is a Nightmare - The Doe
Working at New York’s Trendiest Vegan Restaurant Was Bad for My Health - The Doe
Working for a Media Agency Nearly Broke Me - The Doe
Working in Trump's Government Is Exactly as You'd Expect - The Doe
Writers Guild Negotiations: Flipping the Script on Agents - The Doe
Xenophobia in Western Europe: A Hitchhiker's Perspective - The Doe
You Want to Maintain Calm in America? Treat Protestors Like Cows. - The Doe
Your Public School Student Isn’t Getting Enough Attention - The Doe
Your Server Hates You: Working in a Restaurant During COVID Is Infuriating and Exhausting - The Doe
Your Story Matters - Share it Anonymously on The Doe
Zones of Sacrifice: Nature Will Defend Itself, Even Against Us - The Doe