“But if Guerrera was part of a movement of journalists chronicling the murders of women, she went one step further. She started trying to solve them, too.”
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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Youn Yuh-jung Comes to America
“On the set of Minari, she was an old Korean lady.” E. Alex Jung interviews Oscar nominee Youn Yuh-jung.
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The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families
“But these social workers, in some cases inadvertently, were creating something radical: state-supported queer families in an era of intense discrimination.”
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The Kitchen Dad
“Place the oyster on a bed of ice and go to the next one. It’s possible to refine this technique to perfection. Like changing a diaper.”
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What Mr. Miyagi Taught Me About Anti-Asian Racism in America
In The Karate Kid franchise, writes Beth Nguyen, “Mr. Miyagi is the perpetual foreigner who exists to serve the whiteness that surrounds him.”
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The Dolly Moment
“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”
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Post-Covid America Isn’t Going to Be Anything Like the Roaring ’20s
“Hopes of a repeat of the post-influenza Roaring ’20s are understandable, but misunderstand the differences between then and now, says historian John M. Barry.”
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A Cultural History of Racial Fraud
What does it mean to perform race for a white audience?
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This Is Where 150 Years Of Ignoring Anti-Asian Racism Got Us
“For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.”
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“I Was at a Loss for Any Facts that Would Actually Stick”: An Investigative Reporter on Losing His Mom to QAnon
At BuzzFeed News, Albert Samaha describes his effort to save his mom from QAnon.