This week we have stories from Suzy Hansen, Raksha Vasudevan, Linda Kinstler, Erica Berry, and Dave Denison.
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Feeding a Neighbourhood
“Kroener believes that a community fridge – or any community mutual aid project – struggles or succeeds on the strength of community solidarity, and the foundation of that solidarity is the political education that community members receive.”
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The Deep South’s Dames of Dildos
In Alabama, where sex toys stores are illegal, a church-going grandma, enterprising mom, and sassy granddaughter built a booming business hawking penis pumps and butt plugs — and helping every person find their path to pleasure: One day in 2015, Mary told Christy she wanted to open up a clothing boutique in Muscle Shoals near […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Fletcher Reveley, Susan Freinkel, Nick Paumgarten, Dana Salvador, and Kathryn Hughes.
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The ‘Race Realist’ on Campus
“Why was Professor Gregory Christainsen allowed to teach Black and Latino students at Cal State East Bay that they were inherently less smart?”
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“We Can’t Rush This Kind of Power”: An Educator on Teaching Poetry to High Schoolers During the Pandemic
“Poetry has a way of forcing one into recognition, or transformation, or both if we’re lucky.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending excellent stories by Charlotte Higgins, Lex Pryor, Michael Hardy, Elissa Altman, and Brad Phillips.
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A Year After the Centennial of the Tulsa Massacre, Reparations Are a Distant Hope
Tulsa built a history center, Greenwood Rising, to commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa Massacre. But, as Jesse Washington reports for Andscape, many community members say it does little to compensate the victims and their families. The spiritual heart of Greenwood is the corner of Greenwood Avenue and Archer Street. Standing here 101 years ago, […]
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Fabulous Fungi and Our Top 5 of the Week
“To a reading list on these mind-bending entities at a planetary tipping point, welcome. What you see here are only some fruiting bodies, the rest lies underneath.” I first learned about the parasitic fungus that takes over a bug’s body and commandeers its brain back in 2023, when I picked Zhengyang Wang’s “The Last of […]
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‘Our Souls Are Dead’: How I Survived a Chinese ‘Re-Education’ Camp for Uighurs
“They had sentenced me to seven years of re-education. They had tortured my body and brought my mind to the edge of madness. And now, after reviewing my case, a judge had decided that no, in actual fact, I was innocent.”
