Advocating for the Bisexual Community: A Reading List

All week, I’ve watched my favorite websites and my Twitter feed fill with stories, advice and encouragement. Now, it’s my turn to contribute. I’ve collected some of my favorite pieces about bisexuality–personal essays, queer theory, history, and interviews.

Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 27, 2015

‘We Value Experience’: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?

Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.

Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 24, 2015
Length: 30 minutes (7,584 words)

Making More Magazines: A Reading List

This reading list includes an archived examination of Ms. and an update regarding Tiger Beat; a feminist-food magazine; a defunct magazine for sex workers and their supporters; and a lesbian/queer magazine for denizens of D.C. and beyond.

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Published: Sep 20, 2015

How to Get SuperBetter

Game designer Jane McGonigal argues that playing games can help us develop skills for life.

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Published: Sep 17, 2015
Length: 18 minutes (4,658 words)

Women and Their Relationship with Alcohol: A Reading List

You’ll read work by memoirists, poets and scholars. As Michelle Dean writes, addiction stories may include moments of sentiment and cliche, but they’re no less true. In fact, cliche is tantamount to survival. Seven stories, each with their own twist (no pun intended).

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Published: Sep 13, 2015

Yonkers, Housing Desegregation and the Youngest Mayor in America

The first chapter of Lisa Belkin’s 1999 nonfiction book Show Me a Hero. Belkin’s book was the basis for the recent HBO miniseries.

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Published: Sep 9, 2015
Length: 24 minutes (6,235 words)

The Nine Lives of Cat Videos

Are cat videos mindless distraction or a radical form of pure entertainment? A visit to the Internet Cat Video Festival at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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Published: Sep 8, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,800 words)

Deaf Culture and Sign Language: A Reading List

The following four stories demonstrate this vibrancy and history–the enduring presence of Deaf culture and its advocates.

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Published: Sep 7, 2015

Franklin, Reconsidered: An Essay by Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore revisits the legacy of Benjamin Franklin, who in his time was “the most accomplished and famous American who had ever lived.”

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Published: Sep 7, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,968 words)

Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Our favorite stories of the week, featuring CityBeat, Pacific Standard, Guernica, The New Yorker, and Jarry Mag.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 4, 2015