At the Maacher Bazaar, Fish For Life By Madhushree Ghosh Feature Madhushree Ghosh continues to honor her late parents’ memory…through the simple act of making fish curry.
Zuckerberg’s Trash Is a Subculture’s Treasure By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.
Family Animals By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her new memoir, Grace Talusan fondly remembers the badly behaved dog that won her skeptical father’s heart.
MACHO: On Black Holes, and the Fantasies of Men By Frances Dodds Feature Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.
When the Climate Change Story Becomes Your Life Story By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Moving from bustling, expensive Seattle to tiny Ashland, Oregon seemed like an improvement, until the forest fire season began.
Other Rachel Lyons By Rachel Lyon Feature Having a fairly common name gives Rachel Lyon occasional glimpses into the lives of her doppelgangers — and the roads she has not taken.
The Suprising History of the Ball Pit By Krista Stevens Highlight Enjoy the ball pit! I’ll be over here not swimming in pee.
If Following McMillan Cottom and Gay on Twitter Isn’t Enough, Here You Go By Michelle Weber Highlight More of this sort of thing, thanks.
“This Is the Glittering Fringe”: On Drag Inclusivity at the Rosemont By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“The drag here is messy, not vanilla,’ one regular tells me over the din. He sips his drink and settles on a word. ‘Genuine.'”
How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary? By Sophie Lucido Johnson Feature Stumbling upon someone’s lost journal in a used book store leads Sophie Lucido Johnson down a path she couldn’t have expected.
Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre By Carina del Valle Schorske Feature Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
Recalling the Making of ‘Go,’ 20 Years Later By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Director Doug Liman and screenwriter John August look back on the production of their indie film Go, 20 years after its release.
Confessions of a Clinical Therapy Trainee By Krista Stevens Highlight What do you do when it’s your first day on the job and the patient can’t stop crying?
Busting Broncos and the Patriarchy By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After nearly a century of being denied the opportunity, women are riding bucking broncos in American rodeo once again, and regaining the respect they deserve.
How Do You Move a Warhol? Really, Really Carefully By Michelle Weber Highlight We’re gonna need more bubble wrap.
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium By Michelle Weber Highlight Let’s grab a waffle and challenge the global hegemony of U.S. culture.
Wonder Woman By Longreads Feature Of all the genes parents pass down and values they instill, how does one take hold so much stronger than the others?
Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs By Melissa Chadburn Feature Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.
‘Intelligent Education’ and China’s Grand AI Experiment By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Seven schools in China have installed facial recognition technology in classrooms to monitor — and score — their students. At The Disconnect, Yujie Xue reports on this “intelligent education” initiative.
Welcome to Sinaloa, Home of Chiltepín By Michelle Weber Highlight Your favorite Mexican shrimp dish isn’t about the shrimp at all: “People think the star of the dish is the shrimp, but really it’s the chile.”
The Leaves, They Never Stop Falling By Colin Dickey Feature Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.
The Terror of Being Awake By Michelle Weber Highlight “I thought, ‘This is it, this is how I’m going to die, right here on the table, and my family will never know what my last few hours were like because no one’s even noticing what’s going on.’”
Into the Wild On an E-Scooter By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What happens when you ride an e-scooter out of the city limits — until its battery dies?
The Tyranny of Chairs By Michelle Weber Highlight Pro tip: your fat friend (read: me) doesn’t want to sit in the booth.
Uncertain Ground By Grace Loh Prasad Feature Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.
Coming Home, One Word at a Time By Sharanya Deepak Feature Upon returning to India, a course in Urdu helps Sharanya Deepak embrace the rich and turbulent history of her native country.
Of Safe Words and the Sacred By Britni de la Cretaz Feature A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Barely There By Jennifer Baker Feature Jennifer Baker considers the ways in which hair removal rituals, begun in her tween years, have helped her achieve body acceptance and connect with her own desire.
An American City, Inhabited Yet Abandoned By Michelle Weber Highlight “Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret Children By Krista Stevens Highlight Donald Cline justified his deception with choice bible verses, so that makes everything okay.
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