List: Boosted! | Curated by Dana DuBois

Feb 20, 2025
75 stories
Boosted!My articles that received a "boost" from Medium.
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The Memoirist
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Dana DuBois
My Dad, Dementia, and the Things We Don’t ForgetIn the end, all we want is to be remembered.
Feb 20
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Feb 20
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Three Imaginary Girls
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Dana DuBois
17 Songs About 17-Year-OldsI celebrate my child with music, as she teeters over “the edge of seventeen”
Jan 22
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Jan 22
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Three Imaginary Girls
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Dana DuBois
My Top Shows of 2024From Taylor to Tullycraft, most of my favorite memories of 2024 were musical ones — all 18 of them.
Jan 4
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Jan 4
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Three Imaginary Girls
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Dana DuBois
Bad Luck With Billie EilishTwo of the three of us finally saw her live. December 5, 2024 at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.
Dec 23, 2024
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Dec 23, 2024
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Age of Empathy
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Dana DuBois
I Took My Teens to a Speed Dating EventWhat would Carrie Bradshaw do?
Dec 9, 2024
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Dec 9, 2024
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Pink Hair & Pronouns
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Dana DuBois
I Love My Nonbinary Child. I Still Deadnamed Them.What’s in a (dead) name? Would gender identity by another name sound as sweet?
Nov 14, 2024
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Nov 14, 2024
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Pink Hair & Pronouns
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Dana DuBois
Protecting Our Trans and Nonbinary Kids Under Trump and Project 2025Will it be safe? I have no idea. Is it necessary? More than ever.
Nov 11, 2024
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Nov 11, 2024
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Age of Empathy
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Dana DuBois
I Flew 3,000 Miles for My Dad’s 80th Birthday. He Can’t Remember I Was There.So why did I go?
Oct 25, 2024
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Oct 25, 2024
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Pink Hair & Pronouns
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Dana DuBois
My Child Came Out as Genderfluid. Then They Went Back In.But don’t call it social contagion. It’s gender exploration, and we need to normalize it— not pathologize it.
Oct 10, 2024
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Oct 10, 2024
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Heart Affairs
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Dana DuBois
Dating the “Test and Apologize” TypeThe test is in earnest. The apology never is. Or is it?
Oct 9, 2024
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Oct 9, 2024
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Pink Hair & Pronouns
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Dana DuBois
My Child Came Out As Genderfluid 3 Years Ago — 10 Things I Wish I Knew Then10 things every parent should do when their child comes out.
Sep 18, 2024
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Sep 18, 2024
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The Parenting Portal
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Dana DuBois
I Found a Time Capsule of Lost Words I Wrote About My BabyA love letter to my daughter on her one-week birthday
Sep 10, 2024
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Sep 10, 2024
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Three Imaginary Girls
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Dana DuBois
It Was Rare, I Was There: Taylor Swift in Munich, GermanyMy two teens and I traveled nearly 6,000 miles to see the Eras Tour. It was stressful, expensive, chaotic — and completely worth…
Aug 24, 2024
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Aug 24, 2024
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The Memoirist
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Dana DuBois
A German Guy and Jewish Girl Met in a Goth Club in Atlanta…We had a cross-country, cross-continent summer love that changed the trajectory of my life.
Jul 23, 2024
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Jul 23, 2024
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Age of Empathy
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Dana DuBois
An Ambivalent Jew Returns to Germany for Taylor SwiftI feel echoes of what once happened here. My daughters felt nothing, till I showed them — and they showed me.
Aug 4, 2024
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Aug 4, 2024
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The Memoirist
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Dana DuBois
The Hunt for Undies in DublinThe trials and joys of searching an unfamiliar city for basic essentials.
Aug 12, 2024
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Aug 12, 2024
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Catness
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Dana DuBois
Looking for Linus the Lost CatSometimes a search for a cat is more than a search for a cat.
Aug 19, 2024
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Aug 19, 2024
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Three Imaginary Girls
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Dana DuBois
45 Years of Friendship Meets 25 Years of “69 Love Songs”I flew to San Francisco and met my best friend for the Magnetic Fields’ two-night show at the Curran Theater.
Jul 15, 2024
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Jul 15, 2024
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Age of Empathy
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Dana DuBois
How I Learned Not to Date DownI thought I could spare myself heartache by settling. I was wrong.
Jul 9, 2024
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Jul 9, 2024
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The Narrative Arc
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Dana DuBois
For Daughters Who Can Never Find a Father’s Day Card That Fits…Hallmark doesn’t quite make rhyming couplets for my challenging relationship with my dad.
Jun 14, 2024
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Jun 14, 2024
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