‘Our Stories Are Still Filtered Through Whiteness’

“White people still drive the narrative about Asian Americans. We have yet to have control over our own stories.”

Source: GEN
Published: Mar 15, 2021
Length: 12 minutes (3,194 words)

Hunting For Books in the Ruins: How Syria’s Rebel Librarians Found Hope

“Most of them had already lost everything – their homes, their friends, their parents. Amid the chaos, they clung to books as if to life, hoping for a better tomorrow, for a better political system.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Mar 16, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,336 words)

An Answer to Forgetting

“The consequence of measuring changes in nature against the puny time scale of our human lifespans is that we fail to collectively respond to environmental decline, because we don’t recognize its true scale.”

Author: Mark Mann
Source: Beside
Published: Nov 19, 2020
Length: 11 minutes (2,807 words)

Behind the Scenes at a Five-Star Hotel

For years, employees of the Pierre enjoyed some of the most enviable union jobs in New York City. Then the pandemic brought it all to an abrupt halt.

Source: New Yorker
Published: Mar 15, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,631 words)

A Lion On The Loose: How an Unregulated Nanaimo Zoo Resulted in Tragedy

“All across North America in the 1950s, there were very few regulations controlling zoos. In BC—until Fury escaped—there were none.”

 

 

Source: Capital Daily
Published: Mar 9, 2021
Length: 15 minutes (3,887 words)

The Next Cultural Battle: States Take Aim at Trans Athletes

Starting July 1, 2021, the Mississippi Fairness Act — signed into law by Governor Tate Reeves — will ban trans women and girls throughout Mississippi from playing school sports on women’s and girls teams.

Published: Mar 12, 2021
Length: 12 minutes (3,058 words)

Banker, Princess, Warlord: The Many Lives of Asma Assad

“How a girl from west London became the unlikely winner of Syria’s war.”

Source: 1843
Published: Mar 10, 2021
Length: 28 minutes (7,042 words)

My Mom Believes In QAnon. I’ve Been Trying To Get Her Out.

“The irony gnawed at me: My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother that our 45th president was not, in fact, the hero she believed him to be.”

Source: BuzzFeed News
Published: Mar 12, 2021
Length: 23 minutes (5,987 words)

In ‘Cherry,’ the Bank Robber Is the Victim. What About the Teller He Held Up?

“Erasure doesn’t have to be an act. It can be a process too.”

Source: The Intercept
Published: Mar 13, 2021
Length: 26 minutes (6,700 words)

Dear IU, Our Bodies Are Fine

“I knew my body wasn’t ‘right’; it didn’t look like the bodies of the K-pop idols and Korean actresses I grew up admiring.”

Author: Giaae Kwon
Source: Catapult
Published: Mar 11, 2021
Length: 12 minutes (3,181 words)