The Dolly Moment

“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”

Source: essaying
Published: Feb 24, 2021
Length: 24 minutes (6,055 words)

Post-Covid America Isn’t Going to Be Anything Like the Roaring ’20s

“Hopes of a repeat of the post-influenza Roaring ’20s are understandable, but misunderstand the differences between then and now, says historian John M. Barry.”

Source: Politico
Published: Mar 18, 2021
Length: 12 minutes (3,016 words)

A Cultural History of Racial Fraud

What does it mean to perform race for a white audience?

Author: April Yee
Published: Jan 14, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,849 words)

This Is Where 150 Years Of Ignoring Anti-Asian Racism Got Us

“For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.”

Source: BuzzFeed News
Published: Mar 20, 2021
Length: 20 minutes (5,050 words)

The Stories I Haven’t Been Told

“Jamie Figueroa brings her pen to the blank pages of her family’s history, navigating generational trauma and lost ancestral stories in order to reveal and reclaim her cultural and familial inheritance.”

Published: Mar 11, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,690 words)

How the West Lost COVID

“In Europe, North America, and South America: nearly universal failure. In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: high caseloads and low death rates, owing largely to the age structure of populations. In East Asia, South-East Asia and Oceania: inarguable success.”

 

 

 

Source: Intelligencer
Published: Mar 15, 2021
Length: 42 minutes (10,720 words)

A Black Physicist Is Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

“I am forced to live in a parallel world to the one I wanted to live in, where I could have been a physicist without also constantly being asked to speak on or attempt to compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.”

Source: Catapult
Published: Mar 17, 2021
Length: 8 minutes (2,201 words)

The Crow Whisperer

“What happens when we talk to animals?”

Published: Mar 15, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,800 words)

The Wild, Sublime Body

“Girls were not supposed to be enormous. They were not supposed to be scabby and strong. Inexplicably, strong and big were what every animal wanted to be except us.”

Source: The Yale Review
Published: Mar 12, 2021
Length: 12 minutes (3,236 words)

The Past Year Has Taught Me a Lot About Nostalgia

“Yearning for the Before Times as a mythic era risks obscuring the ways in which the Before was really many different kinds of before. Longing for freedom and safety risks forgetting that neither mobility nor vulnerability has ever been democratically distributed.”

Published: Mar 11, 2021
Length: 9 minutes (2,412 words)