‘Transforming Craft Into An Act of Protest’: Embroidery In Response to Femicide in Mexico By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight An embroidery collective in Mexico sews the stories of slain women.
The Powerful Decide By Longreads Feature What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.
This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack. By Dana Snitzky Commentary
‘Social Media Managers Are First Responders’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “They’re on the front lines of a relentless and overwhelming news cycle that is pushing them to the edge.”
Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss By Krista Stevens Highlight “Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
The Secret Group Trying to Topple North Korea’s Regime By Seyward Darby Highlight Has the U.S. government already betrayed the activists seeking regime change in North Korea?
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Helping Elderly Black People to Vote in 1976 By Krista Stevens Highlight “I called out the names, and they’d tell me who they wanted to vote for. Then, very carefully, I put my finger by each name they’d chosen.”
‘My Tongue Swallowing the Taste of Home Soil’: On Filipino Food, Family, and Identity By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight
‘These Were His Mountains, After All’: Remembering One’s Father While Cycling in the Swiss Alps By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight
Marmalade: A Very British Obsession By Olivia Potts Feature Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
‘Writing Was a Way to Have My Say’: An Interview with Author Sejal Shah By Krista Stevens Highlight “I didn’t know at first what I was doing. I was just trying to represent the inside of the feeling.”
‘You Just Have to Have a Strong Mind’: Shantonia Jackson on Working in a Nursing Home During the Pandemic By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight
There She Goes: How to ‘Feminize’ a Face By Seyward Darby Highlight How a trans woman found the surgery that could restore her sense of self.
Shades of Grey By Ashley Stimpson Feature In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
Let the Unexpected Expand the Landscape of the Possible By Michelle Weber Highlight “In general, I try to expect nothing and hope that everything is possible. I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot.”
