Margo Moran

Goose Gabs • 3rd September 2025

When a baby is born in the desert, does it make a sound?

If I could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, I would have dinner with the man who burned at Burning Man this year. I would pick his brain, ghostwrite his memoir, cobble his ashes together into what may have once been an elbow.

Goose Gabs • 8th May 2025

Emotional vampirism, normal vampirism, and Jonah Hill

Boundaries are the loneliest word.“You don’t owe anyone anything”. This sentiment started out as a good thing. More people were going to therapy and learning to practice healthy self-care, often by setting boundaries with parasitic forces in their lives. And then, and I can’t pinpoint the exact moment it shifted, this phrase became a dog whistle for being a little bit evil.

UU World Magazine • 13th September 2024

How to Boost Young Adult Membership at Your UU Congregation

Organizers focused on young adult Unitarian Universalists say they see a common issue: How do we attract new young adults without a robust YA membership already in place? To 23-year-old climate justice organizer Zoë Johnston, part of the equation is what she calls “cliffing.

BUST Magazine • 28th January 2022

Hulu Rolls Back Censoring Policy After Facing Blowback From Democrats

Within a week, Hulu announced they would be censoring political advertising on their streaming service and reversed the policy. Why does this matter?

UU World Magazine • 1st April 2024

‘Circle of Support’: UU Youth Learn to Help Peers in Crisis

When Max Solomon-Frye discovered training to provide peer pastoral care for his fellow youth, it changed his life."Young men are not really given the tools to care for friends and family in an emotionally vulnerable way," says Solomon-Frye, a 23-year-old who resides in Amherst, Massachusetts, and whose hometown congregation is the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockland County, New York.

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3rd August 2022

Kansas Residents Vote To Protect Reproductive Rights–Setting a Precedent For Other States After The Repeal Of Roe v. Wade

On August 2nd, Kansas voted on a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to ban safe abortion in Kansas by removing protections from the state constitution following the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling.

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Jerk Magazine • 28th December 2023

Redefining Monica Lewinsky with Sydney Gold

The 90s icon represents so much more than just a cum-stained dress.

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Google Docs • 19th January 2025

Shopping Samples

Gap is so back. If you, like me, have been on the hunt for high-quality staple pieces at shockingly low prices, search no more: GAP has answered our prayers.

Goose Gabs • 15th January 2024

Ins, Outs, and Uncomfortable In-Betweens

I have never been one for New Year’s resolutions, but I guess being a changeable person is the whole point.

I feel as though the world is turning around me and I am sitting still. No matter what I do, time keeps going and tomorrow keeps turning into today and today keeps turning into yesterday and part of me takes comfort in the fact that there’s nothing I have to do to propel time forward. When I lay in bed and do my mental checklist of the things that need to be done before I can sleep (take

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Jerk Magazine • 28th December 2023

The People Behind the Cock Socks: An Examination of Intimacy Direction

As performed intimacy rises, a forgotten industry rises alongside.

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Jerk Magazine • 29th December 2023

My Big Three

Two girls, four boobs, and one Dan Humphrey.

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28th December 2023

The Impact of Transphobic Stand-up Comedy

An excerpt from Margo's Political Science thesis.

28th December 2023

The Trump Administration and Norm-Breaking

Originally written for a Political Science course, this essay examines the Trump administration's impact on American norms.

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Jerk Magazine • 28th December 2023

Unmasking Misogyny Disguised as Kink

One girl’s last-ditch attempt to explain to men that hating women isn’t kinky.

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Jerk Magazine • 28th December 2023

Drawing The Line (So We Can Cross It)

Navigating the complexities of collegiate kink.

Goose Gabs • 30th October 2023

A Love Letter to Nuance

All of the good stuff lives in the gray area. Black and white, hard-line notions are comfortable, fathomable, and require little to no miserably intimate self-examination. I’m currently watching Sex and the City for the first time (I promise, I’m going somewhere with this). My sweet friend Molly is a longtime watcher. I think that, on some level, I started watching it to chase the feeling of sitting in Molly’s house on Livingston while Carrie drones on about the impossibility of choosing between

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Google Docs • 5th May 2022

Parliamentary vs. Presidential Systems: What Best Serves Descriptive Lesdership?

When posing the question of if parliamentary or presidential systems are more conducive to descriptive leadership, specifically the presence of women in the legislature, you must first develop a foundational understanding of the difference between the two systems.