Jenni Berrett
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Jenni Berrett Articles
The premise is pretty simple: We each give you one thing to watch, one thing to listen to, and one thing to read over the weekend.
Read...Boy, do we have some great finds this week. Olympic farting and synth-soaked summer jams — what more could you want? If your answer was "a longform piece of investigative journalism detailing Nicki Minaj's appearance at a bar mitzvah," you've come to the right place.
Read...Last week I had a bit of a meltdown. It was not a good time. Luckily, I was able to calm myself down with one of the most beautiful pastimes to have been born out of the Internet.
Read...Part of me wants to write this off as innocuous and carry on with my day, because homophobia is already everywhere and there are better things for me to dedicate my words to — but then I remember 10-year old me.
Read...More than any other unsolicited mental health advice I’ve received over the course of my life is the admonishment to “fake it till you make it.”
Read...We have returned from our long (jk, two week) hiatus to deliver you the Internet you live and breathe for!
Read..."...Mental illness isn’t that exclusive. It doesn’t care how your day is going."
Read...Culturally speaking, though, it’s pretty much set in stone. Even if I left the church entirely, there’s no getting out of my heritage. Cut me open; I’ll bleed funeral potatoes. I’m what you call a “legacy Mormon” — my ancestors migrated across the frontier and settled in Utah (then Mexico) after facing unspeakable persecution from countless communities in the United States. You probably know my ancestors best as the people with the wives.
Read...Is laughter the best medicine?
Read...There has been a lot of discussion about the who of this ten dollar bill. We have until 2020, but there are already some popular suggestions: Harriet Tubman. Rosa Parks. Eleanor Roosevelt.
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