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Inside the Queer-Centric Frat That Dared to Question What a Frat Even Is
Students say the University of Michigan’s Sigma Phi chapter is a vital, lifesaving space, and that going all-gender was the obvious thing to do. The…
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Caroline Catlin
No Sex in the Bunkbeds! Tales from the Most Intimate Sharing Economy Startup Yet
Privacy is rare, quiet hours are sacred, and don’t even think about hooking up. Meet the grown-ups who call the glorified dormitories of PodShare home.
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Shawna Kenney
These Gender-Nonconforming People Are Building a Safe Haven on an Appalachian Farm
Growing their own food and winning over their neighbors, they feel safer in rural West Virginia than they ever did in the big city.
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Cristina Maza
The Housing Battle at the End of the World
When tourism boomed in Ushuaia, Argentina – the world’s southernmost city – displaced locals occupied land in the forest. As development continues to…
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Emanuele Camerini
The Real People of Brooklyn’s Sex-Positive Group House
Yes, there are orgies and orgasm workshops. But even more fascinating is how 14 strangers turned this brownstone into the most supportive co-living…
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Daniel Krieger
Sorting Through a Hoarder’s Lifetime of Clutter, We Learned the Meaning of Love
When my boyfriend took a job helping a widow clean out her house, among the urine-soaked rugs and years-old piles of laundry, I saw our relationship in…
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Rachel Mabe
Can Tiny Homes Solve America’s Homeless Problem?
Four cities in the Pacific Northwest are proving the case for living super-small — and their experiments can teach the rest of us a thing or two about…
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Georgia Perry
The Man Who’s Building Homes From Plastic Bottles
In only a few decades there will be more pieces of plastic in the sea than fish. Robert Bezeau made it his mission to do something good with all that…
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MEL Films
My Family’s House Burned Down…Twice. Then the Bank Took It Away.
After years of rebuilding our beloved house (then doing it all over again), my parents had nothing left. But by that time I’d realized home is more than…
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Ariel Henley
The Roaming Beach Kids of Byron Bay
Meet a close-knit community of homeless teens who sleep in tents, get high, scavenge for food and become family—all on the fringes of Australia’s…
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Anna James
The Things They Send Home
Inside a cramped store in New York’s Little Manila, generations of Filipino immigrants stuff and ship cardboard boxes full of knickknacks, knockoffs and…
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Anne Lagamayo
Life in Public Housing
New York’s public housing projects have more residents than the entire city of Cleveland. But seven current and former residents reveal that life in the…
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Rico "Superbizzee" Washington & Shino Yanagawa
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