Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
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Recovering My Fifth Sense
Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Judgement and Epiphany on Pittsburgh’s Number 79 Bus
The seven stops on the bus lead one resident to an understanding about the way he views his neighbors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
How Famous Women Clean Up After Men
When men like Offset and Kanye West make a mess, women like Cardi B and Kim Kardashian West are there to restore order. But emotion work is not a woman’s job.
Posted inNonfiction
‘Brokenness and Holiness Really Go Together’: Darcey Steinke on Menopause
Darcey Steinke says that most menopause memoirs “end with this come-to-Jesus moment of, ‘Then I accepted hormones.’ I’m not against it, but … I wanted to hear what it’s like for other women.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Visit to Opioid Country
Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Visit to Opioid Country
Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.
Posted inNonfiction
I’m Not Queer to Make Friends
By Trying on the Role of Reality TV Villain, Logan Scherer Confronts His Gay Shame
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Media, Story
The Contradictions of Twitter’s ‘We Care’ Campaign
With bots, fake news, and an angry right-wing flank, Twitter is crashing against the limits of ideological neutrality.
