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During sorority rush, we came up with quiet signals to communicate without having to out ourselves out to prospective new members. When things were going south during a conversation, we’d make eye contact with another sister and play with our hair –  a bat signal asking for help. Naturally, this bled into the rest of…

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I don’t know if we even consider it an unwritten code that you don’t date your ex’s friends or your friend’s exes. I feel like that’s probably actually written somewhere when it comes to explaining to people how they should behave. We give high school students a little bit of a pass because their social…

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When we moved back from Japan to the United States, we encountered an ever tightening noose of gun violence. It was an abrupt reintegration to the American fascination with firearms. I don’t know if the socialization of young boys to idolize and play with guns has anything to do with the prevalence of violence, and…

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