Mj Rodriguez Becomes First Trans Woman Up for Major Acting Emmy
“I do believe this is a pivotal moment. There’s never been a trans woman who has been nominated as a leading outstanding actress and I feel like that pushes the…
So You Think You’re the Main Character – Electric Literature
It makes perfect sense that, at the height of quarantine, teenagers began inserting themselves into other, more compelling narratives. For the past year and more, as coronavirus cases waxed and…
How Do I Tell My Story of Getting Sober?
I was not ready for the withdrawals. They weren’t severe enough to bring on seizures or DTs, but I couldn’t pretend I wasn’t going through a physical disturbance resulting from…
The inherent paradox of cars
The model showed a phenomenon anyone who’s driven in a city is surely familiar with: This choice creates an inherent paradox. If more people decide that driving is quicker, there…
Strategic Knowledge
While companies feign ignorance about marginalized users on their sites, these savvy users flip the script, developing strategic knowledge about the platforms they frequent. Strategic knowledge is an imaginative praxis…
Prioritizing Survival: Why Climate Action Is Our Most Urgent Concern
That’s what the struggle against climate change is about: fighting to maintain some form of organized human life on our planet. And as we are seeing now, working people are…
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The Pain Reliever – PoetryNow
After an artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, Carrie Olivia Adams celebrates the lives of pioneering women in medicine during the nineteenth century.
How the Delta Variant Affects Whether You Should Wear a Mask or Not
As the latest version of the new coronavirus gains ground around the world, the WHO is advising that everyone go back to wearing masks
The Utility Repossessed Their City’s Streetlights. Now They’re Re-Lighting the Night
A grassroots group is installing solar-powered streetlights to replace the hundreds taken away in 2011.