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Everyone Is a Girl Online NPC influencers, "girl dinner," angels, bimbos—the internet is a girl's world now, whether you like it or not. “WHAT DO YOU mean my actions have consequences? I’m literally just a girl.” This year, your feed has _...Read More_
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"Work injuries suffered on the factory line are rarely mentioned in academic accounts of trauma, whether from a literary or a historical point of view. In fact, industrial forms of working-class injury are largely ignored by the literature _...Read More_
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"We’re just riding out and hoping for the best and preparing for the worst at this point. A lot of people that I know are at least making plans to leave just in case stuff goes down,” Crystal said of marginalized people, including LGBTQ _...Read More_
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