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Moo Sexy: Getting Out of My Comfort Zone for Love

Ten years ago, my boyfriend, Greg, and I are lying in bed on a lazy Sunday afternoon when he says he needs to talk to me about something. My...

March 31, 2020

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Dating, Issue: Risk, Issues, Love+

Corona Parenting: Do My Kids Need to See Me Cry?

Published by Ericka Kreutz

Photo of Ericka by Sarah Sido I was lying next to my seven-year-old son at bedtime. He doesn’t ask for this often because he knows I always say no....

March 24, 2020

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Family, Issues, Love+

Fear and Fresh Air: How Two Trips to Mexico Set Me Free

Published by Deesha Philyaw

My lifelong bad habit of not reading the fine print has been rivaled only by my bad habit of ignoring relationship red flags. Ignoring the fine print landed my...

March 10, 2020

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Issue: Explore, Issues, Trips

Get Lost: The Awesome, Scary, Wonder of My Midlife Travel

Published by Jenny Douglas

One early afternoon about 12 years ago I took three left turns and two right turns along the dense streets of Hanoi, Vietnam — and promptly found myself unutterably...

March 3, 2020

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Issues, Trips

Embarking on My Own Year of Yes

Published by Taiia Smart-Young

I’ll allow Shonda Rhimes to take credit for inventing the year of yes (YOY). This TV titan did make it famous, but let the record show that I invented...

February 11, 2020

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Issue: Risk, Issues, Life Lessons

The Greatest Risk of All? Choosing Me

Published by Stacy Morrison

I’m an avowed risk-taker. In fact, I had a business card for a while that bragged about this. I tucked the word “instigator” on there, between “editor” and “writer.”...

February 4, 2020

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Career, Issue: Risk, Issues, Work + $$

TueNight Live: Photos from RISK

Published by TueNight Crew

All photos by Neil Kramer For some people, standing up and sharing a personal story feels risky — luckily for the record crowd (almost 120 of you!) at our...

February 4, 2020

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Issue: Risk, Issues, TueNight Events

The Risk Issue

Published by Margit Detweiler

We each have a list of things we’ll risk, and a list of things we — hell no — will not. Like, I’ll risk talking to a stranger on...

January 28, 2020

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Issues, Margit's Note

My Daughter Inspired Me to Take My Biggest Risk

Published by Carmen Rita Wong

One evening, several years ago, I was walking with my friend, Michelle, in Greenwich Village, shivering. It was late spring and I was chilly. But, that’s not why my...

January 28, 2020

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Issue: Risk, Issues

I Kept My Mother’s Secrets for Decades — Then Told Them All

Published by Bridgett M. Davis

On a morning like most, I sit beside Mama at the dining room table, eating my bowl of Sugar Frosted Flakes and watching her work. She’s on the telephone,...

January 28, 2020

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Family, Issue: Risk, Issues

Her Voice Will Always Be Here: Remembering My Friend Nancy

Published by Margit Detweiler

I scrolled through old text messages to find bits of audio. Here was my friend Nancy Falkow McBride speaking to me direct from Ireland, from her hospital bed. That...

January 21, 2020

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Issue: Sendoff, Issues, Loss

I Sent My Anxieties Downriver — On a Grapefruit

Published by Melissa Rayworth

A scene from the sacred Loy Krathong ceremony in Thailand A hand reached out of the darkness to give me the pomelo. The hand belonged to my 12-year-old son;...

January 14, 2020

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Issue: Sendoff, Issues, Spirituality

I Said Goodbye to Bad Romance

Published by Heather Graham

By Heather M. Graham I walked into my last relationship certain that I just wasn’t good at being with another person. Every relationship I’d had since I had 17...

January 7, 2020

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Dating, Issue: Sendoff, Issues, Love+

9 Books for a Better World

Published by Deesha Philyaw

Let’s face it: The ’10s have been quite the shitshow of a decade. Given the sad state of our democracy, extrajudicial police killings, and the reinvigoration of fascism and...

December 10, 2019

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Gifts, Issues

Useful and chic? Yes! 7 Great Gifts to Give

Published by Kim France

To my mind, the point of gifting is to give another person something that becomes indispensable to them, or very nearly so. To that end, I like finding attractive,...

December 3, 2019

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Gifts, Issues

Am I Bullied by the Past? Or Just by My Memories?

Published by Susan Goldberg

In the very early days of Facebook, back when people “poked” each other, I received two friend requests, both from women I’d originally met in Grade 8. Both sent...

November 12, 2019

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Issue: Amends, Relationships

Hit the Dirt: Digging My Way Out of Loneliness

Published by Kim ODonnel

I’m without a plan for what’s next, without a clue about this new town in which we’ve landed.

October 15, 2019

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Issue: Begin Again, Life Lessons

The Welcome Issue

Published by Sloane Davidson

Margit Note’s: We are so thrilled to have Sloane Davidson guest-curate TueNight’s Welcome issue. As the founder of Hello Neighbor, Sloane works tirelessly for the needs of refugee families,...

September 18, 2019

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Issue: Welcome, Margit's Note

TueNight Live: Photos From Our #DayofAction

Published by TueNight Crew

All photos by Neil Kramer On September 17, National Constitution and Citizenship Day, we gathered in Brooklyn for a truly impactful #DayofAction. With our friends from Feed Our Democracy,...

September 18, 2019

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Issue: Welcome, TueNight Events

The 5th Grade Mehndi Mishap

Published by Benish Shah

In the early 1990s, most people didn’t know what henna was, let alone the variation of the word “mehndi.” You see, Gwen Stefani had not happened at that time,...

September 17, 2019

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Cultcha, Family, Identity, Issue: Welcome

TueNight 10: Tyrese Coleman

Published by TueNight Crew

Age: 40 years old today! (April 1) Quick bio: Tyrese L. Coleman is the author of the collection, How to Sit, a 2019 Pen Open Book Award finalist published...

April 1, 2020

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TueNight 10: Barbara Rushkoff

Published by TueNight Crew

Age: ‘Old,’ as my kid says. Actual: 58. Feels like: 12 on a good day. Basic Bio: Barbara Rushkoff is a former ’zine editor (Plotz), fact-checker (People) and music...

March 11, 2020

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Crafts, TueNight10

Age: 40 Quick Bio: Babita jets around the world as a humanitarian photographer and Executive Director of KIOO Project, a nonprofit that changes gender dynamics by teaching photography to girls who then...

March 5, 2020

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TueNight 10: Vanessa DeLuca

Published by TueNight Crew

Vanessa with Angela Bassett at an Essence Black Women in Hollywood event Age: 55 Basic bio: Vanessa is the Editor in Chief of ZORA magazine, a Medium publication by, for...

February 26, 2020

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TueNight 10: Roberta Lombardi

Published by TueNight Crew

Age: 53 Quick Bio: Roberta is a three-year breast cancer survivor and founder and president of Infinite Strength, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance to underserved/underinsured women diagnosed with breast...

February 19, 2020

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TueNight 10: Jennifer Owens

Published by TueNight Crew

Age: 52 Quick bio: Jennifer is an editor, writer and speaker who tells stories to and about women, with a focus on career, family and health. She works with...

February 12, 2020

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61% of Women Would Rather Talk About Their Own Deaths Than This Topic

Published by Diane di Costanzo

My trigger to stop being so secretive about money occurred in a Palm Springs hot tub, while my sister and I were parboiling ourselves under a clump of shaggily...

April 30, 2019

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Issue: Secret, Money, Work + $$

10 Ways to Keep From Retiring in a Cardboard Box

Published by Caitlin Kelly

I’ve never had access to a 401(k) plan — I’ve been working full-time freelance since 2006. I’ve always wanted to retire, no matter how anathema that sounds in workaholic...

February 21, 2017

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Money

How to Have the Money Talk with Your Parents

Published by Lauren Young

(Photo credit: Stocksy.com) Even if you began planning for your Golden Years at an early age, there is one thing about retirement that no one ever warns you about:...

February 21, 2017

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Money

How a Finance Pro Saves for Retirement After Leaving Her Job

Published by Bobbi Rebell Kaufman

As the author of How to be a Financial Grownup, I am the original Financial Grownup. Right after college, I got my Certificate in Financial Planning so I would...

February 21, 2017

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Money

9 Summer Shoes That Will Keep Your Feet in a State of Happy

Published by Margit Detweiler

Happy feet, it has been said, are the secret to a happy life. Or maybe I just said that. Anyway, as someone with a myriad of foot ailments, I...

June 18, 2019

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Fashion, Issues, Style

Lipstick Secrets: My Quest to Wear Parallel Red, Forever

Published by Alison Mazer

In 1986, during my first month of college at SUNY Purchase, I spotted a woman on campus wearing the most beautiful, fire-engine-red lipstick — and no other makeup. Just...

April 30, 2019

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Beauty, Issue: Secret, Style

The Magic of the Bitch and Swap

Published by Wendy Marston

Long ago in the 1990s, when I was a freelance magazine writer, I never had enough of anything — money, love, other people, and of course, clothing. I worked...

April 25, 2017

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Fashion

18 Seriously Comfortable Shoes for Spring and Summer

Published by Margit Detweiler

My shoe predicament has become even worse. About two springs ago, when I was on the hunt for the bestest, comfiest, maybe even cute-in-a-certain-light pair of shoes, I wrote...

April 11, 2017

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Style

I Let My Student Talk Me Into Botox

Published by Nicola Prentis

Dr. M wasn’t my doctor; he was my student. Normally at 10 a.m. on a Monday morning, we were in his office having English class. But today, I was...

March 28, 2017

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Beauty

How to Build the Perfect Bed

Published by Jody Jones

Photo courtesy Jody Jones Sleep, that elusive and temperamental beast. I’ve spent my adulthood seeking it like Godzilla hunts Mothra, or the way that perimenopausal women look for sleep....

February 7, 2017

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Style, The Bod

TueNight Live: Photos from “First Jobs” at The Wing

Published by TueNight Crew

All photos by Erika Hokanson. We worked Fashion Week, drove a Weinermobile, toured with RuPaul, sold chocolate chip cookies — and got more than we bargained for. These were...

April 24, 2018

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Issue: First Job, TueNight Events, Video

Now That I’m Over 40, I Cannot and I Will Not… (VIDEO)

Published by TueNight Crew

“Stop cursing like a sailor!” “Stop having adventures.” “Wear Spanx.” Hell to the yes, sister. We asked several women over 40 about the things they can’t stop/ won’t stop...

November 7, 2017

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