At Buzzfeed, journalist Doug Bock Clark follows a prison director from Niger as he travels to a remote Cañon City, Colorado—the self-proclaimed “Corrections Capital of the World—where the State Department trains prison workers from all over the world to make their corrections facilities more like those in the United States, which incarcerates 25 percent of the […]
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Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Quotes
In the Wake of Weinstein and #MeToo, Why Does R. Kelly Still Have an Audience?
Women of color who have been singled out by sexual predators deserve our collective fury too.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On Being Trans, Disabled and Using the Washroom: ‘I have a right to exist safely in public spaces.’
Christian McMahon so rightly reminds us that everyone has “a right to exist safely in public spaces.”
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
On Not Being Able to Read
In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Why Are the Details of One Russian Diplomat’s Death So Hazy?
At BuzzFeed, Ali Watkins investigates the way the Russian consulate called Sergei Krivov’s death a heart attack when he seems to have died of blunt force trauma on the floor of New York City’s Russian Consulate building.
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Twenty Years of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’: A Reading List
I don’t remember consciously watching Buffy—it feels like I absorbed it by osmosis. It’s not perfect, but it is wonderful.
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An Ode to Black Families: A Reading List
This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.
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‘O Says I Must Keep a Journal’: Bill Hayes’s Diary of Loving Oliver Sacks
BuzzFeed has a touching, intimate excerpt of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me, Bill Hayes’s memoir of his relationship with late neuroscientist and author Oliver Sacks. 10-13-16 I, soaking in the bath, O on the toilet, talking, talking about what he’s been thinking and writing — short personal pieces, for a memoir perhaps. He […]
Posted inArts & Culture, College, Nonfiction, Quotes
Decolonizing Education in South Africa
South African students of color are working to improve the conditions of education in a country that, twenty years after apartheid, is still rigged for the white minority.
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Social Networks Have Always Battled HIV/AIDS
When Greg Owen saved thousands of lives with a Facebook post, he became part of the long history of social networks and gay activism.
