Ava Carrel

Ferment With Me! Sealing Myself In An Airtight Jar Filled With Pickle Brine

I thought about a spa day or a nice massage but then it came to me. What could be more relaxing than a bubbly, dill-infused fermentation period!

Why I Call My Non-Binary Friends "They/Them Thon Thinaries

They do make a mean macchiato, which might be a harmful stereotype towards non-binary folk, however let's all be honest: we want the blue haired baddie with ten million pins on their apron to make our peppermint mocha this fine holiday season.

Ava Carrel

So You Call Yourself An Activist? STOP WASHING YOUR SHEETS!

Everyone’s aware of the rising homeless community in Dorchester and Roxbury but we don’t even acknowledge as Boston University students commit VIOLENT GENOCIDE to the most marginalized community of all: The Bacteria colony in your sheets.

Doran Steinfeld

We Are Not the Same: You Poop Till You’re Done, I Poop Till My Leg Falls Asleep

It’s about that time. I’ve been sitting here for so long (writing this) that my left leg is starting to feel a tingly sensation. It’s falling asleep! Now, a normal person would take this as a sign to stop and come back another time, but we are not the same. I’m only halfway (if that!) through my movement, and I have an article to write. Sorry left leg, looks like you’re gonna have to wait. Maybe right leg will join you soon?

Abbie Garretson

Getting Covid For The Fifth Time: The Queer Experience Is Bio Hacking Me

I am a good upstanding american. I get my vaccines, I voted in that super awesome and cool election, sometimes me and my friends even like to pray when we get drunk. So tell me why last week I got covid for the fifth fucking time last week since 2022! Where am I going wrong, who have I double crossed? There is only one obvious explanation: it's the queer agenda.

Aidan Fairchild-Sandoval

Rosanna Pansino please don’t cancel Mr. Beast. How will he visit BU now?

Rosanna has put an incredible amount of time into slandering the good name of Mr. Beast. I ask you dear reader, how could a person with so much money ever be bad? People only get that much money because they treat people fairly and deserve it!

Willa Norvell

Spots on! The Freckles I Hide Behind Everyday

Oh how they laugh, oh how they cry. “Look at you! Spread on some sunscreen, freak!” What they don’t know is that my freckles, sprinkled far and wide across my face, give me UNGODLY power, like a solar panel fueled by Greta Thunberg’s motivational speeches.

Mirna Benavente

Forward My Mail To Tatte: My Plan To Meet Zendaya

After 3 days of camping out, eating only stale croissants and diluted coffee while missing classes, I had to call it quits. Why would Zendaya ever be on a street as dumb as Beacon? I had to leave for my own sake. That and the employees finally found me and ran me out with a broom like a raccoon.

Marissa Gilbert

Digicams Across The Country Threaten To Unionize In Wake Of Halloweekend Abuse

Canon Powershot A630 left us with this quote;“ our SD cards are full, double A batteries are dying, and our flashes are weak; this abuse without proper compensation cannot go on”.

Maya Bride

Asking The Comm Ave Scientologists If They Can Cure My Ligma

Say what you will about scientology, but those sons of bitches sure do know how to answer a question. That’s like their whole deal. I think.

Elana Felig

Paint N’ Shit: An Inclusive Twist on Paint N’ Sip for Bitches with Stomach Problems

Piper Hope

Addison Rae: Viewing Bitchy Girls from High School through a Cunty Lens

We NEED to start cuntifying the bitchy girls from highschool and making them into Paris Hilton level gay icons. It would fix homophobia, it would turn their insults into reads, it would create world peace. 

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Tryna Hump Something: Being Attracted to Men in the Heat (haha) of Hockey Season

The frustrating thing about this urge is that it comes and goes in waves, much like my positive opinions toward the male gender. But alas, here we are, and none of them are safe. 

Doran Steinfeld

You Kill Yourself ONE TIME and All of the Sudden Everyone Calls You Dead

I AM NOT DEAD! The only “dead” I am is drop dead gorgeous.

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"Estrogen Could've Saved Her" and Other Things I've Said to My Friends About Professional Hockey Players

Have you ever looked at a man? And I mean really looked at him. Past all the greasy hair, the dirty skin, the general repulsiveness, and thought: Huh. He would make a GREAT girl.

Ces Lodovico

PROUD PERVERT: Ethel Cain’s New Project Has Me Humping for Joy!

I have had the bridge of Thoroughfare (favorite part of my favorite song) sung to me with direct eye contact and there’s no going back. Lock me up at this point. I’m about to get perverted in a way that has never been seen before.

Sage Clark

I Finished Pooping in the Gender Neutral Bathroom and Walked Out to an Actual Non Binary Person Waiting To Use the Potty.

CLAFLIN GENDIE NEUTCH- We’ve all been there, we needed a break from the incredibly boring 75 minute lecture to hit our local gender neutral bathroom and hit our elf bars. Just me? Oh ok.

Piper Hope

Disappearing Fenway Busses and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, It All Connects

When Malaysian flight 370 disappeared in 2014 it inspired the most expensive search for a missing aircraft, so Boston University, where is the search for the missing Fenway busses?‍

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Scrub mommy: Cleaning My Apartment Bathroom Topless

Our apartment bathroom needed some cleaning, and if I was gonna get down and dirty, it obviously made the most sense to do it with my clothes off.

Maya Bride

I've Had Enough of Queer Visability- A letter to The Bitch Who Won't Stop Jangling Their Carabiner in Silent Study Spaces

A lesbian without a carabiner is like an angel without wings yadda yadda.

Emma Santos

“That’s Such A Valid Point” and Other Lies to Tell the Worst Person in Your Soc Class

Some responses to save in your back pocket for those rainy days

Noel Leibly

You make me wanna put the whore in whorechata: A love letter to el jefe’s

The things you do to me El Jefes

Evil Fire Alarm is Set Off at 610 Beacon During Sleepover with Girlfriend

What is the worst thing that could happen to me right now?

Maya Bride

I've Had Enough of Queer Visability- A letter to The Bitch Who Won't Stop Jangling Their Carabiner in Silent Study Spaces

A lesbian without a carabiner is like an angel without wings yadda yadda

Me Poo: A New Movement Empowering Young Women to Poop in the Communal Restrooms

#meepoo

Willa Norvell

I Went to Student Health Services For a Pap Smear and Got Artifically Inseminated

Went to Student Health services and got stuffed but at least Thanksgiving is around the corner.

Mirna Benavente

Giving My Roommate a White Board Explaination on Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

Maggie McNeir

How The Other Half Lives: Conversations With My One Straight Roommate

I live in a tight-knit house with four roommates in Allston - it's essentially a "lesbian frat house" with one exception. I have one straight roommate who keeps to herself on the top floor. I wonder how she would react to our group's LGBTQ-themed movie nights and decor choices that celebrate queer culture. Despite some initial awkwardness, I ultimately seem open to my straight roommate being an "ally" in her own way.

Abbie Garretson

Mutual Aid: Locking All BU Bisexual Twinks in my Bay State Basement

There is an epidemic on this campus. And that epidemic is bisexual twinks. They are walking around this campus with slutty waists, cunty outfits, and an unmatched audacity. They’re manipulating men and women alike. Someone must take care of them or they will run the city of Boston.

They're Eating the Cats: 4 Female Politicians I Would Eat Out

Trump said that the Haitians in Springfield Ohio are eating the dogs and eating the cats; but has he considered that I am actually eating cat?

Ava Carrel

My Cindierella Story: sole of my thrifted docs fell off on the questrom stairs

A modern retelling of a classic love tale.

Mirna Benavente

My Foul, Atrocious, "Hear-Me-Out" Cake Toppers

The trend of adorning cakes with printed out images of characters and people alike has gone viral. People are sharing their ideas of what their “hear-me-outs” are to see who else shares in their particular fantasy (don’t lie, we’ve all thought about how hot Spirit the Horse was at least one in out life).

Aidan Fairchild-Sandoval

I Lied, Put Your Clothes Back On. We're Actually Gonna Talk About the Entire Steven Universe Lore

Sit down and listen to me explain the most interconnected and beautiful story know to humanity.

Help! My Soul is Trapped in an Early 2010s Digital Camera

Im a hot girl in a digicam, you gotta click me the right way

Martin Akamine

HIStory: My story as the first straight writer in Pinky Toe

See, we are inclusive

How The Other Half Lives: Conversations With My One Straight Roommate

Bridges will be crossed and boundaries will be pushed as stereotypes are broken in this thought provoking synopsis of heterosexuality.

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My Long Term Plan to Become A Butch Lesbian (I Had to Use A Screwdriver Once in My Apartment)

In every young queer’s life, there comes a choice: join the legions fighting against the masc shortage or develop your own personality! I had believed myself to be a leader, a woman making her own path in this world! Until the sickening truth fell unto me. 

Sucking Strap Proven to Have MIRACLE Health Benefits

NEW ALL HEALING TREATMENT !!!!

Fracking 101: New Questrom Class Taught by Rupaul

The new semester may be overwhelming, but I’m here to let you know about the most outrageous class I've ever had.

Elana Felig

How to Pick Up Your Canes Order the Day of a BC Football Game as a Person of Color: Don't

The West Campus Raising Cane's is usually a hotspot for students, but on this particular Saturday, something felt off. I walked into a sea of Boston College fans, instantly feeling outnumbered and out of place as they swarmed the restaurant like they'd never seen a chicken tender before.

Doran Steinfeld

Celiac Insensitivity: A Comprehensive List of Artists Who Have Posed in Wheat Fields

The wheat fields are calling, will you answer?

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She's Woke Now! What to Do When Your Mom Won't Stop Telling Your Friends About Her Fairy Smut

Get this woman off wattpad!

Emma Santos

I Went To Acapella Auditions And Ended Up At A Meeting Of A Secret Sex Cult

What could go wrong?

Ces Lodovico

Yes I’m Biphobic. Yes I’m Bisexual. These Are My Plans To Get My Boyfriend Pregnant

A compelling intrigue on the duality of society and fuck you bisexual.

Isabella Hill

Walking Down Comm Ave: Mama Your Situationship From Last Semester BEHIND You💜

Has this ever happened to you before?

Tyronica Matseghurne

Sexless and the City? Back in Boston and Nothing is Different.

Boston University revealed to be as dry as your knees!

I Think it's Time to Get Sabrina Carpenter Spayed

Im so fucking WHAT Carpenter? Repeat that again.

Aidan Fairchild-Sandoval

Should I Pay Tuition Or Buy Those Concert Tickets?

No because that's like a one in a lifetime opportunity you don't understand

Noel Leibly

I bet you're thinking about me (my ex emailed me twice about bones)

You'd think totaling our cars would be enough to drive him away, but somehow he always finds another bone to pick 🙄

Isabella Hill

Only willing to go to second base with my gynecologist

Dear Diary: Ahead of my upcoming gynecologist appointment, I have a lot of unresolved fears.

Where are My Clothes? And Other Effects of the Solar Eclipse

Ok but if you weren't getting naked this eclipse what were you doing there??

What if I Told You That You Actually Just Ate Your Birth Mother’s Internal Organ? And Other Fucked Up Questions That We Need To Start Thinking About

5 scenarios we have ALL been in.

The Holetariat: How I’m Making Communism Sexy Again

Cuntymunisim

Mirna Benavente

Ranking numbers 0-9 out of 10: In 7th place, #4

Answering all your deepest questions here at pinkytoe headquarters.

No, You Aren’t Delusional, This City Really is Poisoning You

This is actually so poetic wtf.......

Sadie

Face Blindness Chronicles: An Interview With That Guy on the T Who Might Be Noah Kahan

It was a regular day when I met one of my heroes. I woke up ready to start my morning and threw my long, shiny brunette hair into a messy bun. I looked in the mirror to see blue orbs staring back at me. I gave myself a quirky wink: it was going to be a good day. 

Aidan Fairchild-Sandoval

Touch Starved and Alone: The Reality of Gay Dating in College That No One Talks About

Let’s set the scene. It’s early September and you’re starting your freshman year of college. Twenty thousand new people, big city, surely there’s gonna be plenty of fish in the sea; lots of hot new queers just waiting to get a piece of you right? I mean the only reason you didn’t have a partner in High School was because you came from a small town with no options right? ‍

Elana Felig

The sexual tension between me and the only other person in the laundry room when my underwear falls out of the washer

Winking "heyyy" as my Colonial era pantaloons spill out

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Insane! Local Girltwink is Fed Up

Noel Leibly

Ranking the Members of My Lecture Crushes Bloodline

You, yes you. I know you’re also guilty. Stalking your potential romantic interest online until you can find every single detail about them: their major, hometown, where they went to high school, their address, and even more.

Ava Carrel

What is a Digital Footprint and Why You don’t need to worry about it

idk but the only footprint I care about is bunion-related

Aidan Fairchild-Sandoval

A Gay Man's guide to the march and april album drops: Pinky Toe

Here at The Pinky Toe we pride ourselves on our inclusive and diverse staff full of people from all walks of life. Our army of girls and gays has helped me put together a list of the most important album drops in the upcoming months that you need to know about.

Doran Steinfeld

SIT DOWN in the COMMUNAL SHOWERS

Trigger warning, this article is NOT for lovers of the oppressive shower shoe.

Mirna Benavente

My personal Odyssey: taking the shuttles to get to AMC

The clubs at the GSU turned even the strongest into mindless zombies that were willing to give their emails for a flimsy tote bag with too short straps. Yet I couldn’t waste time becoming one of them. I had a journey to embark on – getting to the AMC for my one-of-three government mandated movie showing of the week.

my strange addiction: telling people to let go and let god🙏

After my encounter with the holy church I have learned many tricks I would like to share.

Sadie

All My Friends Are Joining Sororities: Finding My Own Sisterhood with the Squirrels in the Boston Common-

A squirrel lover's fantasy gone twisted and dark.

Piper Hope

What To Do When Your Sonny Angels Start Unionizing

Surviving Joe's America, my Sonny Angels keep me safe?

Stealing the Show! How I Robbed Booth Theater

When I turned 18 years old and left my mom-zie and pop-sicle for the big city, the first thing I did was change my name. It was a difficult decision, but I just knew with the new name “Lea Michelle” I’d certainly be the greatest star in New York City.

Emma Santos

STRAIGHT WHITE MAN REALLY RELATES TO YOUR EXPERIENCES OF OPPRESSION BECAUSE HE WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL

As we near the end of Black History Month and Black historical figures and their accomplishments prepare for their 11-month hibernation period, one group of students is doing the work and having important conversations about the hard “R”― racism

Why are you femme when your face is butch

My experiences navigating the deceitful world of butch lesbians

Elana Felig

Is that bitch growling at a forearm?: Why I choose to be horny on main in edit comment sections

We've all done it before, don't even lie

Elana Felig

I crave the male gaze but all I attract are the male gays

Aidan Fairchild-Sandoval

Class Of ‘Twenty Eight Tours BU Dorms For The First Time, “It’s so preppy in here!” Copy

Incoming student? Read our exclusive scoop on the life and fun of bustling Commonwealth Ave.

Sadie

Lana Del Rey, Outraged at the Recent Green Line Closures, Announces New Album “There’s a Tunnel Under Commonwealth Avenue, Fucking Use It”

Isabella Hill

Is She A Masc Lesbian, Or Is She Just Cold? A Guide To Your Campus Crush

Easy tips and trick to make sure you get your masc this winter!

Happy Galentine’s: Top 5 Places to See Drunk Straight Girls Kissing

Im not like gay or bi or anything, I just kiss girls when Im drunk its not a big deal!

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Serve the country? Hell no. Serving cunt? Slayyyyy pur

The draft is coming, here is a personal account of a survivor, this is their story.

EGAHH! They Made a Poppers that KILLS You!

Breaking news all queers and queens: do you indulge in Troye Sivan’s RUSH a little too much? Do you spend your weekends in the Reddit Goon Cave equivalent for gays? Have you been taking “huffing and sucking” a little too seriously? Well maybe it's time to reconsider your career path

What to do when you very confidently give the wrong answer in a crowded lecture

The question on everyone's minds

Ava Carrel

My Google Calendar on February 14th: Arson, Yearning, and Vehicular Manslaughter

I hope all you Pinky fans’ Valentine’s Day is just as joyous and fulfilling as mine, unless you’re in a relationship. Then I hope you die.

Receipts, proof, timelines, screenshots: revealing campus menace Rhett-ality von tease

In the wake of Reality Von Tease being uncovered on live television (a highly produced show and 3-part reunion), there seems to be something sinister is cooking on Comm. Ave.

Doran Steinfeld

Just Had Sex With the Alien From Run 3: Meh 🫤

Last week, a brand new opportunity offered itself to The Pinky Toe: the alien from Run 3. Our great leaders at The Pinky Toe explained to us that a new local hottie has offered to have sex with one of us, as long as we rate him and write an article about it. Now, I’m not one to pass up an opportunity for a good story, so I immediately offered my services. I was selected, and then me and this mystery hottie met up later.

Mirna Benavente

Can we please stop sexualizing everyone and just apprec- ok, SJW are gone, Renee Rapp has great titties!

For those of you that left your theater phase after Dear Evan Hansen came on the scene, Ms. Reneé Rapp is a fabulous singer known for her incredible run as Regina George in the Mean Girls musical on Broadway (not to be confused with the 2023 movie based on the musical, which was based on the movie of the same name, which was based on a book)

Getting Bat Mitzvahed at the Chicago Rat Hole

My dear friends, family, and Pinky readers, I am overjoyed to announce that I have officially become an adult in the eyes and presence of the lord—the infamous Chicago Rat Hole.

Ces Lodovico

Egad! I Think My Roommate Is Hexing Me!

Synonyms of Egad: zounds, gadzooks, fiddlesticks, phooey, gee whiz, gee willikers

Sadie

My Plan to Saltburn a Questrom Student

From intrigued to disgusted to turned-on, Saltburn’s streaming release this winter evoked a plethora of different reactions. Personally, I felt nothing short of inspired.