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“243 People Disappeared. Young People. Women. Children. And No One Cares”

“243 People Disappeared. Young People. Women. Children. And No One Cares”

How do you find a boat that vanished without a trace?
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Eric ReidyOct 7

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Searching for Eve

Searching for Eve

The life of a trans woman, but only online.
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Meredith TalusanSep 24
Masculinity Means

Masculinity Means

A photo essay by Amos Mac
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Amos MacSep 15
We’ve Got Gender All Wrong

We’ve Got Gender All Wrong

We lean on biology to argue for equal rights for all genders, ignoring bigger systems of oppression.
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Laurie EssigSep 14
Real Talk With Trans People

Real Talk With Trans People

How to be an ally.
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leelaginelleSep 8
Black. Trans. Alive.

Black. Trans. Alive.

We won’t be erased.
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ChernoBikoSep 9

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Can You Find the Ghost Boat?

Can You Find the Ghost Boat?

Last summer 243 people disappeared.
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Bobbie JohnsonOct 7
Mutiny on the Majestic Blue

Mutiny on the Majestic Blue

A captain held captive. A boat flying the U.S. flag but violating American law. Welcome to the big, bad world of distant water tuna fishing…
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Kalee ThompsonOct 1
The Monetized Man

The Monetized Man

How the blinding, reckless emotions of men created a cottage industry for writers.
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Alana MasseySep 28

Welcome to We The T!

A month-long conversation about everything transgender.
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MatterSep 16

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The Racism Beat

The Racism Beat

What it’s like to write about hate over and over and over
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Cord JeffersonJun 9, 2014
The Talk

The Talk

How black parents prepare their young sons for life in America
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Bijan StephenAug 20, 2014
Ubering While Black

Ubering While Black

By Jenna Wortham ¶ The comedian Hannibal Buress has a bit in his act about trying to hail a cab in New York as a black man.
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Jenna WorthamOct 23, 2014
What Life Really Costs at $7.25 an Hour

What Life Really Costs at $7.25 an Hour

It Takes 74 Minutes of Minimum-Wage Work to Buy a Sara Lee Apple Pie
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Billy DomineauSep 23, 2014

Sex

Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money.

Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money.

Escorts make $100 a hand job — but entrepreneurs like me? We make $5,000 a night. How I hacked the new economy of the oldest profession
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Svetlana ZOct 8, 2014
16 Men and Women Share Their Sexts and the Stories Behind Them (Warning: Very NSFW)

16 Men and Women Share Their Sexts and the Stories Behind Them (Warning: Very NSFW)

What love and sex really look like in the 21st century.
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Jenna WorthamNov 11, 2014
Are You “Internet Sexual”?

Are You “Internet Sexual”?

On Chaturbate, live-cammers go wild and weird. And if you watch it long enough, you realize tech has created a whole new sexual persuasion.
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Emily WittJan 20
Girl, Send Me a Frext

Girl, Send Me a Frext

How female friends have turned sexting into an act of bonding and empowerment
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Alana Hope LevinsonApr 30

Tech

Tech Reporters and Their Hairy Wrists

Tech Reporters and Their Hairy Wrists

We are all gross apes wearing beautiful bits of metal and plastic.
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Tom CoatesApr 8
The Web We Have to Save

The Web We Have to Save

The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?
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Hossein DerakhshanJul 14
Here’s Why Public Wifi is a Public Health Hazard

Here’s Why Public Wifi is a Public Health Hazard

Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi ¶ We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was…
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Maurits MartijnOct 15, 2014
“Speaking up every. F*cking. Time”

“Speaking up every. F*cking. Time”

How one feminist publisher is taking on the worst of Silicon Valley (and some of her allies, too)
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Elizabeth SpiersJul 9, 2014

Big Stories Matter

Is Big Pharma Testing Your Meds on Homeless People?

Is Big Pharma Testing Your Meds on Homeless People?

How the destitute and the mentally ill are being used as human lab rats
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Carl ElliottJul 28, 2014
What’s It Really Like To Be 18 In America Right Now?

What’s It Really Like To Be 18 In America Right Now?

This spring, Matter worked with a class of high school seniors in the San Francisco Bay Area to find the answer to that question.
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MatterJun 17
Why Are Disgraced Doctors Running Big Drug Trials?

Why Are Disgraced Doctors Running Big Drug Trials?

Why Are Dope-Addicted, Disgraced Doctors Running Our Drug Trials?
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Peter AldhousJul 29, 2014
Take a Look at Matter’s Two ASME-Nominated Stories

Take a Look at Matter’s Two ASME-Nominated Stories

On being finalists for two National Magazine Awards.
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MatterJan 16
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