No one ever said expelling a tiny human our of your body would be easy — or if they did, they shouldn’t have.
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The Faces of Obamacare
As the GOP discusses repealing the Affordable Care Act, it’s essential to look at some of the lives that nationalized health care has improved and saved, and at the activists who helped get eligible people enrolled. Here are a few from Texas.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Commentary, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Pot Luck
Searching for justice in the newly legal weed economy
Posted inNonfiction
Finding My Father
At age thirty-two, after years working as an exotic dancer, the daughter of a mysteriously absentee father finally puts together the pieces that had been missing her whole life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Through a Glass, Tearfully
Maureen Stanton contemplates her history of crying in inappropriate moments, and considers tears from gender-based and political perspectives.
Posted inNonfiction
Coachella, Underground
Spending time in California’s Coachella Valley, journalist Gabriel Thompson explores how the region’s Latino communities have adjusted to a life of fear and uncertainty under a Trump administration.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
Why Bugs Deserve Our Respect
Fruit flies helped us win six Nobel prizes in medicine. Architects have been inspired by termite hills. Ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains why bugs are so essential to the world we live in.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Posted inBooks, Business, History, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
The Queering of the Baby Bells
Highly public pressure campaigns against telephone companies were the crux of early LGBTQ activism.
