On Being Smaller
Colin Gillis finds both joy and an unexpected sadness after losing one-third of his body weight.
Class Dismissed
Here’s what has happened as Arizona continues to reduce funding for public education. Here’s what will happen if other states follow suit.
Turn On, Tune In, Drop by the Office
Emma Hogan reports that in Silicon Valley, microdosing LSD is the new “body-hacking” tool everyone from engineers to CEOs are using to boost productivity and creativity. Interestingly, while apparently everyone is doing it, users are reluctant to have their real names appear in print. Psychedelic secrets, man! Peace out.
In a Swimming Pool, Learning to Trust
A personal essay in which Matt Grant details how he learned to trust himself as a swimming teacher as he taught students of all ages to trust the water. He learns the most from a particularly frightened, challenging young student named Jacob.
Pregnant, then Ruptured
In this personal essay, Joanna Petrone recalls the medical abortion for an ectopic pregnancy that led to the rupturing of one of her fallopian tubes, followed by emergency surgery. She also reflects on the kinds of legislation that can — and has — kept women from being able to terminate life-threatening pregnancies like hers.
A Presumption of Guilt
Bryan Stevenson examines the connection between the modern day death penalty and lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Rise of the Valkyries
53 percent of white women voted for Trump, Lara Lokteff reminds her audience. “And, I guess, to be really edgy, it was women that got Hitler elected.” Lokteff, the “queen bee” of the alt-right, is on a mission to remind these women that they are first and foremost, white. “When women get involved,” she declares, “a movement becomes a serious threat.”
Song of Songs
Examining the music of the female orgasm and the orgasmic language of music.
The White Lies of Craft Culture
How the artisanal-food movement has built its success by appropriating — and erasing — the labor of people of color.
What Thomas Jefferson Taught Me About Charlottesville, and America
A personal essay in which Joshua Adams, a Black graduate of the University of Virginia, traces the roots of the recent racist attack there back to UVA’s problematic but venerated founder, Thomas Jefferson.
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