March 2012
2 posts
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Anne Elizabeth Moore: Our Pol Pot →
To understand Cambodian film, or Cambodia, really, you should watch Katanho (2003) crammed onto a vinyl couch with thirty-two women half your age.
n+1 || February 24, 2012
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Mira Ptacin: Un-bearing →
One woman’s choice.
Guernica || March 2012
February 2012
12 posts
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Mimi Swartz: Tree of Life →
When the Art Guys, Houston’s zany performance art duo, staged a faux wedding to a live oak in 2009, they thought they were raising questions about man and nature. But before long, The Art Guys Marry a Plant had become a flashpoint for the fight over gay marriage.
Texas Monthly || March 2012
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Molly Redden: Mission Impossible: Selling the GOP... →
On the woman with what one person calls “the hardest job in politics”: selling the GOP to Latino voters.
The New Republic || February 23, 2012
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Beth Hawkins: Bullying Gay and Lesbian Kids →
How a school district became a suicide contagion area.
MinnPost || December 7, 2011
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Cary Aspinwall and Ziva Branstetter: What Happened... →
Edie King was holding onto a letter from female inmates at the Delaware County jail, detailing allegations of sexual abuse by jailers. She had plans to turn it over to an attorney who was putting together a lawsuit for the women. Then she was found hanged.
Tulsa World || December 11, 2011
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Pamela Colloff: Hannah and Andrew →
In October 2006 a four-year-old from Corpus Christi named Andrew Burd died mysteriously of salt poisoning. His foster mother, Hannah Overton, was charged with capital murder, vilified from all quarters, and sent to prison for life. But was this churchgoing young woman a vicious child killer? Or had the tragedy claimed its second victim?
Texas Monthly || January 2012
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Ingrid Norton: Letter from Detroit →
On racism, divestment, suburbanization, and arson in the Motor City.
LA Review of Books || January 16, 2012
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Mandy De Waal: The Life, Times & Morality of Henry... →
Time has not been kind to Henry Kissinger. As he approaches his ninth decade, he appears healthy, is no doubt wealthy and retains his fierce intelligence. And yet, this high flying Nixon-era strategist today is a sombre character, alarmed about what people think of him after they’ve Googled his name.
Daily Maverick || January 18, 2012
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Sarah Menkedick: Proof of Extreme Hardship →
US/Mexico border and the relationships that straddle it: personal narrative-reportage about the waiting in Ciudad Juarez for a fiancé visa.
Vela || December 27, 2011
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Rachel Leibrock: John F#@king Burton! →
He’s a California politician, the state Democratic Party chair, thrower of a never-ending torrent of f-bombs, and star of a profanity-laced interview that made The Daily Show’s John Oliver cover his face in shock.
Sacramento NewsReview || February 2, 2012
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Alexandria Sage, Natalie Huet and Jean-Francois... →
The history of breast implants is littered with flawed devices, a colorful cast of intertwined players and billion-dollar lawsuits.
Reuters || February 2, 2012
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Jada Yuan: Is There Life After Modeling? →
Karolina Kurkova, Angela Lindvall, and Coco Rocha plot the future of their relevance.
New York || February 12, 2012
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Eliza Griswold: Everyone Is an Immigrant →
Poetry and reportage in Lampedusa.
Poetry Magazine || January 2012
January 2012
2 posts
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Polly Rosenwaike: Escapism for Moms: Three... →
Dad envy feels as real as the cries in the middle of the night that mean, “I want milk, and you’re the milk lady.”
The Millions || January 18, 2012
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Janelle Nanos: Single By Choice →
When it comes to getting hitched, more Americans than ever before are saying “I don’t.” Now if only their friends and family (and oh, while we’re at it, coworkers, benefits providers, and the federal government) would get off their back.
Boston || January 2012
December 2011
15 posts
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Natasha Stagg: Behind, Beneath, and Between:... →
The historical, sociological, and cultural crevices of the much-maligned undergarment.
DIS Magazine
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Vanessa Veselka: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize... →
Inspired by the WTO protests, a demonstrator took a job in an Amazon warehouse to try and unionize the workers there
The Atlantic || December 12, 2011
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Dahlia Lithwick: Her Honor →
At the center of the growing furor over the number of justices allegedly too biased to hear the health-care case sits Elena Kagan, the newest justice, on the Court just over a year. While liberal watchdog groups are claiming that Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from the case because of his wife’s affiliation with a tea-party group that explicitly targeted the new health-care law,...
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Nayanah Siva: How Investigators Unravelled... →
The coffee shop was noisy, but Xu was intently focused on the American as he ordered eight shipments of Plavix, Casodex, Tamiflu and Aricept, a drug for Alzheimer’s disease. Xu was excited; his deep-set features relaxed a little. This meeting was going better than he ever imagined. He could, potentially, be making millions of dollars within weeks. He did not know that the quiet American was...
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Joan Garrett: Pain of losing child haunts grieving... →
Afterward, when the baby was underground and the nursery door was shut, their thoughts swung back to the quiet moments of anticipation.
Chattanooga Times Free Press || December 4, 2011
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Belén Fernández: Errata →
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s metaphorical pile-ups, hollow analyses, and factual inaccuracies have garnered him three Pulitzer Prizes, and frighteningly unchecked power.
Guernica || December 2011
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Jenny Turner: As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes →
Chicken pieces, iPods, A-level burb girls with jobs in Selfridges, unable to buy any of the stuff they sell: how often if ever are such things addressed by feminism?
London Review of Books || December 15, 2011
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Nona Willis Aronowitz: Sister Bloggers →
Why so many lifestyle bloggers happen to be Mormon.
GOOD || Winter 2011
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Robin Romm: All His Children →
A sperm donor discovers his rich, unsettling legacy.
The Atlantic || December 2011
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Clare Morgana Gillis: What I Lost in Libya →
This is the story of how an academic found herself imprisoned in Tripoli.
The Atlantic || December 2011
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Siobhan O'Connor: Miller's Light →
America’s best-loved astrologer tweets the future.
GOOD || Winter 2011
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Emily Landau: Secrets of the Deep →
Has Nova Scotia put its treasure hunters — and the bounty they seek — at risk of extinction?
The Walrus || May 2011
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Molly Redden: A Promising New Law That Pushes Back... →
The New Republic || December 8, 2011
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Deborah Jian Lee and Sushma Subramanian: A Single... →
Chinese bachelors’ statistically doomed search for love
GOOD || Winter 2011
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Ann Snitow: Dangerous Worlds: Teaching Film in... →
I decided that I would never use the word “feminism” but that I would organize the course around themes I know and care about and can teach best. So, three clusters: childhood, manhood, womanhood.
Dissent || Summer 2011
November 2011
22 posts
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Elizabeth Dwoskin: Why Americans Won't Do Dirty... →
In the wake of an immigrant exodus, Alabama has jobs. Trouble is, Americans don’t want them.
Bloomberg Businessweek || November 9, 2011
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Marisa Meltzer: Shamanism and the City →
Psychedelic spiritual tourism comes home to the U.S.
GOOD || Winter 2011
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Sarah Breger: A Priest Bears Witness →
Father Patrick Desbois is on a mission to uncover the mass graves of nearly two million Jews. Sixty years after the Holocaust, time is running out.
Moment || Nov/Dec 2011
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Tasneem Raja (producer): The Nuclear Bombs in Your... →
Where in the United States the Pentagon keeps its atomic weaponry.
Mother Jones || November 2011
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Madeline Coleman: True Like: Why the Girl Crush... →
Everyone’s talking about girl crushes. But what has your crush done for you lately?
Maisonneuve Magazine || November 14, 2011
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Jeanne Mansfield: Why I Was Maced at Occupy Wall... →
The white-shirted cops are shouting at us to get off the street as they corral us onto the sidewalk. One African American man gets on the curb but refuses to be pushed up against the wall of the building; they throw him into the street, and five cops tackle him. As he’s being cuffed, a white kid with a video camera asks him “What’s your name?! What’s your name?!” One of the blue-shirted cops...
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Lindsay Zoladz: Not Every Girl Is a Riot Grrrl →
Today’s musicians grapple with the feminist punk legacy of riot grrrl.
Pitchfork || November 16, 2011
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Laurie Abraham: Teaching Good Sex →
What it means to teach “comprehensive sex ed.”
The New York Times || November 16, 2011
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Elizabeth Kadetsky: The EST in Me →
On a mother’s embrace of the teachings of 1970s self-help guru Warner Erhard.
Guernica || November 2011
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Gina Frangello: Risky Writing →
Everything that matters burns. I believe that. On the page and in life.
The Nervous Breakdown || November 4, 2010
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Chelsey Johnson: Silhouettes →
I never thought I’d shoot a gun. But here I was, standing at the glass counter, looking down at an array of gleaming pistols laid out like deadly jewelry.
The Rumpus || November 15, 2011
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Mac McClelland: Ohio's War on the Middle Class →
Wherein I go home, watch public servants get axed, visit the warehouse of unbearable sorrow, hang with jobless thirtysomethings living in abandoned homes, and consider whether my generation is flat-out screwed.
Mother Jones || November/December 2011
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Yoani Sanchez: Country for Old Men →
A dissident reports from the ruins of the daddy state, where Papá Fidel is now just the patient-in-chief.
Foreign Policy || November 2011
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Monica Potts: It's an Ad World After All →
Is it legal for a company to take out Internet ads on your name after you’ve filed a complaint against it? Apparently so.
The American Prospect || Sept 30, 2011
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Emily Nussbaum: The Rebirth of the Feminist... →
Come for the Lady Gaga, stay for the empowerment.
New York || October 30, 2011
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Amanda Hess: What Women Want →
A profile of a breakout male porn star:
The porn machine churns out performers to satisfy every fantasy, be it MILF, dwarf, fat, granny, or gang bang. But if you’re interested in watching a young, heterosexual, nonrepulsive man engage in sex, James Deen is basically it.
GOOD || Winter 2011
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Cary Aspinwall: Standing Tall →
Every day in Oklahoma, four people lose part or all of a leg. The stories of four amputees — a Marine, a mother, a young daredevil and a diabetic senior.
Tulsa World
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Sarah Menkedick: The Revolution →
First-person account of the APPO uprising in Oaxaca.
Vela || Sept 9, 2011
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Alma Guillermoprieto: In the New Gangland of El... →
The El Salvador of today is riddled by worse violence than at any point since the early years of the war, linked inseparably to the United States by an immigrant stream that started during the conflict.
The New York Review of Books || Nov 10, 2011