Urban Slang: How What You Say Shows Your Age

When I was a girl, boys had cooties. A friend’s daughter was recently warned by a fellow kindergartner not to touch or “you’ll get Coronavirus” (although that may have been more literal.) In Boccaccio’s day you would have avoided someone “like the plague.”  If you’re in another country and there’s a language difference you know…

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Building a Satire Community

Comedy writer and satirist (and self-proclaimed, highly acclaimed pizza scientist) Caitlin Kunkel is ON FIRE! Since publishing the book New Erotica for Feminists in 2018 things have exploded. She’s the co-founder of the comedy and satire site The Belladonna Comedy. She created the online satire writing program for The Second City and teaches workshops and speaks across the…

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Thanksgiving through a Brazilian Lens

Greetings, from guest blogger Geno Bonaventura, aka my darling husband. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I did not grow up celebrating Thanksgiving in Brazil, but, nowadays I enjoy it with my American family members and friends. Here are some of the facts about Thanksgiving facts that I have learned, to get you into the mood: The first…

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