How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Leaving A Polygamous Sect?

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs no longer has a hold on the communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona — former compounds are now available for stays on Airbnb — and the women of these communities are finding new ways to live and work. “We are more than Warren Jeffs and the FLDS…We are better than the stories about us. We have a new narrative: resilience.”

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Jan 18, 2018
Length: 32 minutes (8,100 words)

The Things That Come to Those Who Wait

Waiting in line is the thing that seperates us from the animals. We waited in times of scarcity; when there were more people than goods, and soon lines became a “symbol of bloated bureaucracy.” But today waiting is a kind of privilege, where it’s more common to wait in line for a new sneaker or a trendy dessert.

Source: Racked
Published: Jan 17, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,800 words)

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.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 16, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,951 words)

We’re Not Done Here

How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 18, 2018
Length: 19 minutes (4,764 words)

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.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Jan 16, 2018
Length: 16 minutes (4,157 words)

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.

Source: LitHub
Published: Jan 17, 2018
Length: 9 minutes (2,305 words)

I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore.

An essay examining women’s long-standing conditioning away from owning and expressing anger, instead often sublimating their rage in sadness, which has historically been more acceptable.

Published: Jan 17, 2018
Length: 17 minutes (4,335 words)

Chasin’ the Trane to Milwaukee: When John Coltrane Did & Didn’t Play Here

In 1959, Miles Davis’s famous quintet was scheduled to play a week-residency at the Brass Rail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the time they were recording the masterpiece Kind of Blue. An ad ran in the paper and everything. So why didn’t they make the gigs?

Source: On Milwaukee
Published: Jan 10, 2018
Length: 10 minutes (2,519 words)

Seeking the Lost Art of Growing Old with Intention

The life of Bernd Heinrich, septuagenarian naturalist, ultramarathoner and author, offers lessons for residents of our fractured digital world on the value of reconnecting with nature and staying grounded, even into retirement.

Source: Outside
Published: Dec 15, 2017
Length: 18 minutes (4,511 words)

The Encyclopedia of the Missing

She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jan 11, 2018
Length: 16 minutes (4,160 words)