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Articles by
Alexis Pooley
Alexis Pooley has an MFA from UBC and lives in London, Ontario with this dog.
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January 9, 2025Time to Grab the Dusty Old Expired Bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide to Clean This Wound
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May 21, 2024Ballet Flats Are Back—Can’t Wait for My Feet to Hurt and Stink for Fashion
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October 25, 2023I Love When the Leaves Turn Beautiful Colors and Fall to Their Deaths
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May 16, 2023I’m the Person Who Designs Open-Plan Office Spaces, Despite Never Having Actually Worked in One
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March 22, 2023I Don’t Eat Gluten or Dairy Anymore Except for When I Do
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February 27, 2023Gonna Pop These Overripe Bananas in the Freezer Until I’m Ready to Take Them Out and Throw Them in the Garbage
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September 20, 2022Should I Bring Anything to the Dinner Tonight or Just My Crippling Anxiety?
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August 22, 2022Wake Up, You Lazy Skin Sack. I’m a Songbird and It’s 4 A.M.
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August 9, 2022Wow, I Didn’t Expect to Run into You While I Was Wearing This Stupid New Bucket Hat
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February 27, 2025“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Wasn’t a Warning; It Was Our End Goal
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March 10, 2025As an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia University
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February 27, 2025Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations
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March 6, 2025Killing Baby Boomers Will Save the United States Government Trillions
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March 13, 2025It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
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March 13, 2025Don’t Let the Fact That I Only Criticize Democrats and Always Defend Trump Confuse You—I’m an Independent Centrist
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March 13, 2025Hero of the Memoir
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March 12, 2025DOGE-Inspired Spring Cleaning