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‘Anyone Can Walk in the Woods, But Who Truly Knows Them?’
Tristan McConnell writes about the forests of Mount Kenya, and the people there with a deep understanding of the land and the trees.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Helping Elderly Black People to Vote in 1976
“I called out the names, and they’d tell me who they wanted to vote for. Then, very carefully, I put my finger by each name they’d chosen.”
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Electric Guitar Pioneer
“She wielded her guitar like a weapon and distorted the sound: a guitar technique that was completely original at the time and would be copied by legions of rock guitarists in the decades after.”
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‘My Tongue Swallowing the Taste of Home Soil’: On Filipino Food, Family, and Identity
“Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.”
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‘Writing Was a Way to Have My Say’: An Interview with Author Sejal Shah
“I didn’t know at first what I was doing. I was just trying to represent the inside of the feeling.”
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‘These Were His Mountains, After All’: Remembering One’s Father While Cycling in the Swiss Alps
James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
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The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene
A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.
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Summer Mother
Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.
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Find Yourself
From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.