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Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
Send your nonfictional open letters to openletters@mcsweeneys.net.
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July 23, 2021An Open Letter to the #OWNVOICES Movement
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July 14, 2021Dear HR: What Skin Color Emoji Am I Supposed to Use?
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June 22, 2021An Open Letter to My Straight Co-worker Who Was Visibly Uncomfortable When I Stood at the Urinal Next to Him
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June 15, 2021An Open Letter to My Child’s Overnight Camp About the Things I Didn’t Have Room to Include in the “Anything Else We Should Know About Your Child?” Section of the Registration Form
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May 20, 2021An Open Letter to Sleep: We Need to Talk
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April 9, 2021An Open Letter to My Children Regarding the Commencement of Asynchronous Parenting
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March 23, 2021Dear Dr. Fauci, It’s Almost Passover Again and I Have More Questions
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March 11, 2021An Open Letter to White Expat Men That I Have Met While Living in China
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February 4, 2021An Open Letter to Peter Morgan of The Crown for Creating a New Generation of Colonial Sympathizers
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January 28, 2021An Open Letter to the Folks in 2020 Who Allowed Me to Speak to Them Through My Mask for Extended Periods While We Waited for Things
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December 22, 2020An Open Letter to the Woman in Smith’s Food and Drug Who Was Enraged That Land O’Lakes Removed the Native American Logo from Its Butter Tub
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December 17, 2020An Open Letter to the Paperboys in Newsies Who Nicknamed Their Friend “Crutchie”
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July 13, 2021Nobody Wants to Be a Serf Anymore
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July 14, 2021Dear HR: What Skin Color Emoji Am I Supposed to Use?
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July 12, 2021I Am an Alien Ambassador and I Only Wish to Speak to Your Richest Human
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June 17, 2021What Your Favorite ’90s Rock Band Says About the Type of Bored Suburban Dad You Are Today
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July 23, 2021Summer in New York in an Increasingly Hot Climate Is Not a Good Enough Reason to Bare Your Shoulders in Public
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July 23, 2021Six Ways You Have Utterly Failed Your Child, According to a Pediatric Dentist
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July 23, 2021An Open Letter to the #OWNVOICES Movement
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July 22, 2021Apologies Women Need to Make (Sorry, It’s True!)