An incident on lawyer Britney Wilson’s ride home from work exposes her vulnerabilities as a Black disabled woman.
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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List
How We Got to Here: A Charlottesville Reading List
This weekend’s events will resonate long after the crowd was dispersed, long after the cable news trucks leave, long after the school year begins.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quotes
Author John Edgar Wideman on Isolation
The author of more than 20 books confronts personal tragedy and some truths about himself.
Posted inProfiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
An Interview with MacArthur ‘Genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
No Más FantasÃa
What happens when you’re sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, then released 19 years later and sent to a place that’s supposed to feel like home?
Posted inBlog Post, Media
Dear New Owners: City Magazines Were Already Great
As the president sucks up the oxygen from the media atmosphere, it’s easy to forget how important local journalism is right now. The regional press—the holy trinity of newspapers, alt-weeklies, and city magazines—is where we can find true stories of friends and neighbors impacted by immigration raids, fights over funding public education, and the frontline […]
Posted inNonfiction
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Black Disabled Wonder Women Need Love, Too
Britney Wilson considers the lessons she learned while taking a risk on romance.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Black Disabled Wonder Women Need Love, Too
Britney Wilson considers the lessons she learned while taking a risk on romance.
