“What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”
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The Dangers of Renting While Black in Gentrifying Cities
Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.
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Evictionland: More and More Americans Experience Eviction, and Gentrification is Partly to Blame
In this essay supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Joseph Williams investigates the increasingly deft mechanisms at work evicting lower-income apartment dwellers in rapidly gentrifying cities, while chronicling his own descent from white collar Politico reporter living in a luxury apartment, to jobless, homeless man.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes
Maybe Your House Can Be “Most Congenial”
Richard Wallace considers his chances (not great) at being memorialized by a blue English Heritage plaque.
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How to Get So Famous They Give Your House a Medal
What decides whose legacies get memorialized? Mostly richness and whiteness.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Short Distance from Southie, but a World Away
Tara Wanda Merrigan recalls navigating between the very different realms of Harvard and home.
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Growing Up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant
Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in the Palouse region of Washington State.
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The Great Divide: Growing up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant
“Through the years, I stopped feeling pressured to either be less Japanese or more Japanese, and decided just to be. It became easier when I found someone who helped me remain intact.” Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in […]
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Women of Color Are Blazing New Paths on Old Trails
Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.
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The Strange Alienation of Being a Latina Who Loves Hiking
A personal essay about loving hiking as a Latinx — in both Ecuador, where author Amanda Machado’s family members see it as un-classy and unladylike, and the United States, where hiking has largely been the domain of upper-class whites.