Ancient Grains Archive
She Said, She Said: Advice About Cultural Appropriation and Identity
Advice, Ancient Grains
Oct 25, 2013
Previous installments of The Toast’s advice column from two disparate and imperfect persons can be found here. Last time: Death.
I am marrying my absolute favorite person in the world next year. It's wonderful, glorious, I'm brimming with happiness, blah blah blah wedding planning is hard, blah blah blah, but there
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There’s No I In Tina Fey
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Oct 25, 2013
At a part-time museum job I had in Hyde Park, I cut out a photo from the Chicago Tribune’s daily of Tina Fey and her husband Jeff and thumbtacked it next to Tina Turner and Minnie Mouse on our breakroom wall. Everyone I knew in Chicago loved Tina and some of us pretended she
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Femslash Friday: Sansa/Brienne, A Lady And Her Knight
Ancient Grains, Fan Fiction
Oct 25, 2013
Watching Game of Thrones is an interesting undertaking if you're a woman who likes women. One the one hand: hey, a fantasy series with lots of distinct female characters who are, on the whole, about as developed as you’re likely to get in a mainstream franchise set in a world that draws
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Some Gender Studies 101 Students Explain Lesbians
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Oct 25, 2013
Recently, an anonymous Friend of the Toast who works at a university for humans somewhere on the North American continent informed us that at the end of every gender studies course, she asks her students to (among other things) define lesbians and modern lesbian identity, in light of the already-completed course reading.
These
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Watch A Man Living His Best Life
Advice, Ancient Grains
Oct 24, 2013
Listen, you don't need me to tell you to go watch videos on YouTube. It's frivolous and frankly a little insulting: like you don't already know how to find whimsical cover bands on the Internet? But I had to do this. I had to talk to you about the Tambourine Guy.
It's...I can't
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The Thin Hair Line
Ancient Grains, Beauty
Oct 24, 2013
There’s no one hooting from the rooftops about how having thin hair is awesome. Fact established. Thin, or thinning, hair on women can be an especially sensitive subject, and rightfully so, given that often one of the roots of femininity is linked to a woman’s hair.
There are women who eschew these hair
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Gal Science: When a Scientist Tries to be Funny
Ancient Grains, science
Oct 24, 2013
As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They'll live here, so you can always find them.
Science is
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Sponsored Post: You Gotta Get More Diet Soda In You Real Bad
Ancient Grains, Sponsored Post
Oct 24, 2013
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by diet soda. Which one? Yes.
Are you drinking enough diet soda? A new study reveals the disturbing truth: No. you are not. Here, have a diet soda. Put some in your mouth, then swallow it when you're done tasting it. Tastes good, right? Tastes like bubbles. It's
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