An 18-year-old Parisian woman streams her suicide on social media.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Thousand Miles of Bad Roads with No Maps and No Men
A group of determined adventurers spent seven days driving the desert in the first all-female road rally.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes
The Rising Seas Are Coming From Inside the House
On Game of Thrones and climate change: “Every city in the world is built on wildfire.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
When Is an Internet Company Evil?
What is Facebook *really* about? Surveillance and advertising, not about “the power to build community” as its new mission statement so disingenuously puts it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
God and Stone: One Woman Explores Her Armenian Roots
A young woman reconnects with her family’s ancestral home.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Lawn is a Lie
Am I proud of my lawn? Absolutely not. I am completely ashamed of it. I have a terminal case of lawn guilt.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List
The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
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Joss Whedon and the Feminist Pedestal: A Reading List
A guided reading list on feminism, fandom, and fidelity for Buffy enthusiasts.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Uncategorized
These Are the Locals Who Get The Story of Charlottesville Right
The historians, activists, reporters, and columnists who tell the complicated and ever-changing story of their own community.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
More Than a Riot Going On: A ‘Detroit’-Inspired Reading List
The failures of Kathryn Bigelow’s film undercut the fullness, complexity, and beauty of Detroit.