A reported personal essay in which Janelle Harris writes about reluctantly succumbing to her need for Medicaid and the electronic equivalent of food stamps after she lost her full-time reporting job in 2012, in order to feed herself and her daughter.
Sari Botton
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Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?
In her first cover piece for the New York Times magazine, Jenna Wortham profiles RuPaul, making note of the ways in which he — and his 9-year-old reality competition TV show — have had to evolve along with shifting understandings of gender, and the politics around it.
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The Dangers of Renting While Black in Gentrifying Cities
Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.
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Evictionland: More and More Americans Experience Eviction, and Gentrification is Partly to Blame
In this essay supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Joseph Williams investigates the increasingly deft mechanisms at work evicting lower-income apartment dwellers in rapidly gentrifying cities, while chronicling his own descent from white collar Politico reporter living in a luxury apartment, to jobless, homeless man.
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Reclaiming Our Rage
Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.
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From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS and Childlessness
In this personal essay, S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
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Diary of a Do-Gooder
In this personal essay, after years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.
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Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America
An excerpt of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, about Billy Gawronski, a 17-year-old who was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.
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She’s 17 And Wants To Be A Politician. Her Dad Says He Won’t Vote For Her.
A profile of 17-year-old Iowan Lily Miller, a progressive who wants to run for office, and her right-wing 49-year-old father Mike, who represent a growing phenomenon of young women departing from the conservative views they were raised with.
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The Conversation I’ve Been Dreading: Ijeoma Oluo Talks About Race with Her Mom
An essay excerpted from So You Want to Talk About Race in which Ijeoma Oluo writes about a messy, uncomfortable, and important conversation she had with her white mother about race and racism.