The Believer Magazine
Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
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September 21, 2022An Open Letter to Bluey’s Parents: Please Stop
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September 9, 2022An Open Letter to the State Board of Education Regarding Another English Exam Full of White Authors
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August 5, 2022An Open Letter to the White Mommy Blogger Who Posted a Recipe for Turmeric Energy Balls
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June 22, 2022An Open Letter to White People Inquiring Whether I Know That One Indian Person They Know
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May 24, 2022An Open Letter to Women’s Magazines Who Promote Body Positivity with Totally Not Photoshopped Images of Naked Celebrities
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April 18, 2022An Open Letter to College Students Who Don’t Read the Syllabus
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April 7, 2022Open Letter to the Drivers of Uptown Manhattan Who Honk as My Son Gets on His School Bus
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October 27, 2021An Open Letter to Tiffany & Co. About Their Advertising Campaign for the Ring That Helps Women Remember They Survived Cancer
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October 13, 2021Open Letter to Paul Simon on His Misleading Song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”
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August 18, 2021An Open Letter to the Architect Who Invented Open-Concept Floor Plans
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August 3, 2021An Open Letter to My Thirty-Plus-Year-Old Ovaries
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July 23, 2021An Open Letter to the #OWNVOICES Movement
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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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March 12, 2025DOGE-Inspired Spring Cleaning
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March 5, 2025Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li
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March 6, 2025Killing Baby Boomers Will Save the United States Government Trillions
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March 24, 2025My Mother-in-Law Wouldn’t Complain If She Didn’t Get Her Social Security Check, Because She Would Be Dead
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March 21, 2025American History Lessons Edited to Comply with Anti-DEI Standards
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March 21, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: The Process: Judy Baca, Generation on Fire, 2023