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.
‘We Value Experience’: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?
Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.
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.
How to Get SuperBetter
Game designer Jane McGonigal argues that playing games can help us develop skills for life.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring CityBeat, Pacific Standard, Guernica, The New Yorker, and Jarry Mag.