personal essays
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18 Essays About The Immigrant Experience You Need To Read
These stories illuminate what it takes, and what it means, to uproot your life in one country and begin it again in a new one.
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How To Pitch Essays To BuzzFeed READER
Interested in pitching personal essays or cultural criticism? Here’s how.
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The Most Moving Personal Essays You Needed To Read In 2016
Here are some of the most beautiful and insightful personal essays that BuzzFeed staff and contributors wrote this year (in the order they were published).
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28 Essays And Stories That Made Sense Of Trump’s America This Year
These essential pieces of writing on the presidential election help explain how we got here in 2016, and imagine where we go now.
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16 Personal Essays About Mental Health Worth Reading
Here are some of the most moving and illuminating essays published on BuzzFeed about mental illness, wellness, and the way our minds work.
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How To Plan For The Worst Day Of Your Life
My life is ruled by order, but when my sister died, I realized there are some things you can never plan for.
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I Don’t Owe Anyone My Body
My Tinder date stopped seeming like a nice guy the second he couldn’t hear me say “no.”
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20 Essays You Need To Read From BuzzFeed Life This Year
A look back at some of the brightest ideas and most beautiful writing about food, health, style and more that we published in the past year.
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The Most Moving Personal Essays You Needed To Read In 2015
In no particular order, here are just a few of the many fantastic personal essays we published across BuzzFeed in 2015.
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A Black Woman Walks Into A Gun Show
The gun show loophole allows shoppers to buy guns from private dealers without a background check. I stared down a sea of Confederate flags to find out what that’s like.
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I Used To Be An Alcoholic. Now I’m A Stoner Who Has A Drink Sometimes.
For me, marijuana wasn’t a gateway to harder drugs. It was an exit ramp from my addiction to alcohol.
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The Year I Stopped Celebrating Father’s Day
When I was a teenager, my family left my father and refused to look back.
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The Time I Dabbled In Do-It-Yourself Dentistry
Two of my adult teeth never showed up. Until I could afford fake ones, I got creative.
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Mormon, Childless, And Constantly Condescended To
In my secular life, I’m a marathoner and stand-up comic. In the eyes of the church, I’m a charity case.
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7 Personal Essays You Need To Read This Week: “Asian Accents,” Microaggressions, And Rihanna
This week, BuzzFeed Ideas shared a series of essays from actors of color on their casting experiences. Read those stories and others from Medium, Jezebel, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, and more.
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17 Of The Best BuzzFeed Books Essays We Published In 2014
Exploring subjects from skateboarding to Sylvia Plath, and attempting to write your first novel to jumping into the sea, these are some of our favorite essays we published this year. *Ranked in no particular order*
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13 Of Our Favorite Personal Essays We Published This Year
A woman who confronted her abusive stepfather. A man who bought a house in Detroit for $500. A 33-year-old who suffered and survived a stroke. Reflections on love, loss, and life in these great essays.
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I Was Sure Freezing My Eggs Would Solve Everything
When I was 35 and single in New York City, I was convinced I’d be alone forever. Undergoing a costly procedure to buy myself time seemed like the right choice.
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How A Breast Reduction Helped Me Love My Body
Making the decision to have the surgery was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Now I’d never go back.
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17 Personal Essays That Will Change Your Life
Think essays are just something boring you write for class? These masterpieces will make you totally reconsider.