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As a University of Maryland freshman, Emily Gross ‘21 often struggled with uncertainty about how to combine socially with other members of the LGBTQ+ society on campus, even as she heard other women in her residence hall breezily talking about going out and meeting guys.

Gross wanted her style to reflect her identity and help her reach out to other queer Terps, but pride-centric clothing options available at the period felt clichéd and a little too “in your face” for Gross.

“I wanted to be visible to people that were love me, but also not necessarily be signaling it to everyone [because] I didn't want to be out to everyone,” Gross said. “So, subtlety was really important to me.”

While attending UMD, Gross participated in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, a former two-year program in the Honors College that focused on building entrepreneurial proficiency sets. It was during this program that the marketing major’s classroom education coalesced into an empathetic of how to develop a brand that is responsive to a community’s needs and wa

How to be gay in 10 easy steps

The other day when I tweeted my distaste for the latest Kylie Minogue free (a form of sacrilege in some circles) one of my followers replied with one of my least favorite phrases: "We're going to revoke your gay card." Not only is this trite rejoinder (thanks to Ellen DeGeneres, we've been joking about earning toasters for nearly 15 years now) but it maintains the illusion that one must love certain things in request to be gay.

There's no such thing as a gay monolith. There are as many ways to be gay as there are colors in the rainbow (now who is being easy and glib?). Dishing out gay cards is like telling people they aren't allowed to be gay because they haven't seen the requisite number of Glee episodes.

But, then again, maybe they gay community needs some sort of shared exposure – outside of the life of falling in treasure with a member of the same sex – to bring us together. Gay men and women don't share a place of origin, skin shade , socio-economic class, religion, or anything else that would typify

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We’re going to acquire straight into the recipe this week folks! No updates, no recommendations, just pure unadulterated sugar-butter-flour up in here.

Actually, just kidding — my update is I’m going to start including PDFs of the recipes at the bottom of the post. I desire that helps you if you maintain recipes on your desktop or produce them out to keep in your kitchen. And maybe I’ll get around to doing this for past recipes too.

So if you read last week’s newsletter (with the miso caramel peach crisp)Spoiler, I gave up.

Enter: yellow corn. I was able to pivot away from my flop week of recipe testing and make the recipe base function — just with yellow cornmeal. The flours in the recipe are a ratio of about one-third all-purpose and two-thirds cornmeal. Okay cornmeal. I used Indian Head Old-Fashioned Stone Ground Yellow Cornmeal. Take a look at the image and caption above: The cornmeal on the left (Indian Head) is ground fine, but it’s not as fine as the masa harina on the right. (Plus, they’re just made differently.) The cornmeal in the center (Bob’s Red M

Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

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And, oh, did we make them better. Where the former recipe leaned eggier and slightly cake-y, this recipe is truly crisp on the outside, gooey on the inside. The edges rise and crinkle as the center falls down and cracks open to display glorious subterranean pools of melted chocolate. TL,DR: This recipe has more brown sugar, less eggs, more vanilla extract, and just a little bit of baking powder to help with the pan-banging method (read on for more info). PLUS! We only have to chill these terrible boys for 2 hours — not

So we did , which were fab, but I wanted more. I wanted chocolate rivers, ponds, TRIBUTARIES, DELTAS.

And if you want those things too, you can’t use chocolate chips. Store-bought chips and chunks own a coating on the outside that actually prevent them from losing their shape. The leading way to get melty chocolate pockets is by chopping up a big bar or block of good quality chocolate. Surprisingly, the huge ounce bars they sell at Trader Joe&#;s function wonderfully for this — and they&#;re lik