"So it's been a year since I lost my eye to glitter," reads the worst sentence in the English language. In a freak arts & crafts accident, a fleck of glitter cut Erica Diaz's cornea. After two failed cornea transplants and an infection that almost killed her, she now has a prosthetic. Her two young daughters think they have a "very metal" mom, Diaz writes. She's tracked her year of surgeries and...

Facebook is making you gay—at least, according to Saudi Arabia. In recent weeks, government officials and local prosecutors have been attempting to curb what they reportedly believe is an outbreak of homosexuality caused by the widespread adoption of social media in the country. PinkNews, an LGBT-centric publication based in the U.K., is reporting that the Middle East nation may reinstitute the death...

In the spring of 1994, a TV battle was brewing in a Central Florida suburban home. Each week, my 15-year-old sister would sit on the edge of her seat, waiting to see if the cult teen drama My So-Called Life would be renewed or canceled. Five years her junior, I preferred the 1960s sitcom The Patty Duke Show. I drove my family crazy singing the damn theme song. At the time, her love of the angsty...

Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, valedictorian of Long Island’s Elmont Memorial High School, has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools plus four additional schools. Uwamanzu-Nna, daughter of Nigerian immigrants, also has a 101.64 GPA, was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for research she did on cement that could help underwater oil rigs from rupturing, and has been invited to the White...

Afghanistan's Sesame Street is getting its first local character! According to Entertainment Weekly, Zari is "a 6-year-old girl who’s 'curious and eager' and whose name means 'shimmering'." She's the first local character on Baghch-e-Simsim, which is one of the most popular television shows in the country. What will Zari do? The series, which includes segments on tradition and culture, will highlight...

Washington, D.C. held its Republican primary on March 12th. This is also the day I found out that my roommate was a Donald Trump supporter. I was shocked when he walked into the kitchen, a Trump 2016 sticker proudly displayed on his chest. As a woman of color, I find Donald Trump, his campaign and his supporters to be absolutely repugnant. Finding out that I was living with someone who supported him...

After a brief postponement in December for surgery, Vulture reports that Janet Jackson is pausing her Unbreakable tour again, but this time, she's doing it for the cutest reason imaginable: she and her husband are "planning a family." The star took to Twitter with her video message: https://twitter.com/JanetJackson/status/717653282244546564 This could mean many things—I mean, Janet is the queen...

Angela White, better known as Blac Chyna, will soon be Angela Kardashian. Does she know that they don't just give you bags of money for having the name? According to US Weekly, the makeup artist, private dancer and, um, model known for her friendship with Amber Rose and being the mother of Tyga's child, King Cairo is eager to take her husband's name when she marries Rob Kardashian sometime in the...

Just last summer we were parsing through the charred remains of love thanks to the Ashley Madison hack. Now, thanks to the Information Age, a new website is here to complicate your Tinder experience. For $5, Swipe Buster will let you search to see if users are active on Tinder. Input your target's first name, location, age, and gender to search. Then the site will show you when the user last...

When you've got ongoing depression and anxiety issues, you learn to take the good with the bad – especially as you muddle your way through finding a medication that works to calm the self-loathing thoughts and doomsday paranoia (at least for a little while). I was on a relatively low dose of Lexapro for years; I found it helped clear the dust in my head allowing me to get some good work done...

It's April, and festival season is now upon us: That delightful period of the year when people with more money than God go to a bunch of very expensive music festivals in order deck themselves out in very expensive and culturally appropriative ensembles and pose for Instagram pictures, just like the real hippies used to do! This grand tradition traces back all the way back to Woodstock '94, which--unlike...

What you see here is a salad cake, as prepared by Misuki Moriyasu for the Vegiedeco Cafe in Nagoya, Japan. The “cake” part of the cake is whole vegetables blended with soybean flour, the “frosting” is tofu or cream cheese, and the filling is, well, salad. My inclination is to say that this is horrible, and to some extent it is. We’re all conditioned to look at a cake and think that we’re...

I love baseball. My four favorite words in the English language are “pitchers and catchers report” — a phrase I hear in February, which just barely edges out the “Opening Day” of April. I look forward to today every year with an anticipation that can only be rivaled by children lying awake listening for reindeer on the roof. And then Opening Day arrives…and like a bolt of lightning I’m...

We buy makeup because, on some level, we all want to live the kind of life that makeup wants us to live.  A concealer, touted by blogs and YouTube and waterlogged magazines at your nail salon, promises to make you look like yourself, but with the skin of an angel, all plasticky and soft focus, like a permanent Instagram filter slapped on top of your actual, real face. Lipstick will change you from...

I’m done. The non-controversy around News Genius broke me. I’ve been denying it for years, but it seems true enough, now: Millennials are entitled. If you haven’t heard about it, bless your soul. The whole thing centers on a Twitter call-out from herpes blogger Ella Dawson, whose post “I Am Not ‘Suffering’ from Herpes” was annotated critically by an acquaintance and then, the next day,...

I work in a small office of seven people. I’m close with all my co-workers except “Susan,” one of my superiors who’s a backstabbing complainer. I know for a fact she would ruin my good time (and my coworkers’ time, too) if she were to come to my wedding. I’ve quietly invited everyone in my office, but I haven’t invited Susan. Now I'm afraid what will happen if she finds out. Do I have...