Moxy Magazine

Fear: an emotional response to a perceived threat.  We are all glad to have fear for things that could cause actual harm; it helps us make quick decisions to avoid physical injury and keeps us from doing things that are really, really stupid. But why do so many women—myself included—allow fear to hold us back [...]

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Failure is a natural part of life. So it’s no wonder it’s there on the silver screen too – you know, the whole art-imitates-life deal. Lost jobs and broken hearts (sometimes even both) are always there on the screen. Fortunately, good trumps evil (or at least it’s supposed to), and the big failure of a [...]

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Ray* went to college to study criminal justice; his father was a police officer and he planned on becoming a police officer too. He never felt pressured to follow in his father’s footsteps; he just decided he wanted to become a cop. After college he applied for the force—they started the background checks and he [...]

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It is the end of May in the year 2011. I’ve just gotten off a plane from Edinburgh, Scotland, where I had finished a job. I turned on my smart phone and immediately received an email from my current roommate, saying I had to be out of our apartment by the end of the lease. The [...]

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