I Tackled My Climate Anxiety by Becoming a Parks Department Super Steward
One weed at a time. I was astonished to learn how impactful fighting for trees really is. According to this New York City tree map, one London plane tree near…
How wellness culture is toxic for people with chronic illness
Wellness culture is toxic for people with chronic illness or pain. Influencers use shame and sexism in medicine to scam sick people. I understand the attractiveness of the wellness industry…
Ghosts – Believer Magazine
Last year I became fascinated with an artificial intelligence model that was being trained to write human-like text. The model was called GPT-3, short for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3; if…
short lease in a slick machine: a personal essay about apartments
Suddenly, we were in a prison of design. This was a place for performing living, and we, as normal people, simply wanted to live – wanted to leave clothes in…
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…
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…
Conservative Attacks On Critical Race Theory Are An Attempt To Cancel MLK
To rally their dying and dwindling base (Republicans have won one majority in a presidential election since 1988), the right has decided that they should distort what critical race theory…
Silicon Valley’s propaganda machine
The Future is here. After announcing it was getting into the content game earlier this year, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, launched its Future blog this week to…