7 Essays To Read: Smoking To Get Sober, Asian Pseudonyms, And Loneliness

This week, Katie Herzog explains how marijuana helped wean her off alcohol. Read that and others from Broadly, Dame Magazine, Love, InshAllah, and more.

1. "I Used to Be an Alcoholic. Now I’m a Stoner Who Has a Drink Sometimes." — BuzzFeed Ideas

2. "When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian" — The New Yorker

3. "Burritos, Big Macs, and Beer: How I Binged My Way to Oblivion in College" — The Guardian

4. "Why I Don’t Date White Men" — Love, InshAllah

5. "Leaving Home at 14 Was the Best Thing I Ever Did" — BuzzFeed Ideas

6. "Growing up Muslim in a Post-9/11 World" — Broadly

7. "Is Loneliness Really That Bad?" — Dame Magazine

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