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Race Against Time: How White Fear of Genetic Annihilation Fuels Abortion Bans
by Carla Bell

May 3, 2022 Contributed By: Carla Bell

Still, in the foreseeable future the country will be, as Elliot puts it, “mostly brown.”

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays Posted On: May 3, 2022

Persian Night
by Douglas Cole

June 23, 2021 Contributed By: Douglas Cole

Courtesy of Andrew Sato

She placed a cup of the hot elixir on the counter before me. On the surface of the cup little dragonfish swirled around like visual laughter. I felt my stomach tighten and my heart speed up. Here we go . . .

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Content, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: June 23, 2021

Firewatch as Dating Sim + Whether It Can Heal Broken Hearts
by Clement Obropta

June 1, 2021 Contributed By: Clement Obropta

A hand holds a turtle

There’s something regenerative about a wildfire; many ecosystems have grown to depend on them, and they’re good at clearing out the moldy, dead stuff at the bottom of the forest.

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays Posted On: June 1, 2021

You’d Just Be Different, That’s All: Revisiting Catcher in the Rye in 2020
by Sam Rebelein

May 24, 2021 Contributed By: Sam Rebelein

A man reads Catcher in the Rye

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know about is that crumby article I found a few years back. It was a really phony piece, in The Guardian or something and all, written by this very intellectual guy who says he re-reads Catcher in the Rye every […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: May 24, 2021

Being Fred
by Leslie Absher

May 6, 2021 Contributed By: Leslie Absher

Being Fred

Being Fred   My Dad’s first CIA field assignment was in Athens, Greece. It was the late 1960s when my uncle Tom came to visit our family. He didn’t know his older brother was a spy then, though he suspected it. “One day your father and I were about to enter a store,” he told […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: May 6, 2021

Waves of Sea Glass
by Liz Kerr

May 4, 2021 Contributed By: Liz Kerr

"Waves of Sea Glass" by Liz Kerr

My nursing career began in a pandemic. As a student nurse, I was assigned a clinical rotation on the HIV/AIDS unit at the former Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia. At that time, before fully funded research and clinical trials and antiretrovirals, there wasn’t much more we could do for our patients beyond comfort care. So you […]

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays Posted On: May 4, 2021

6,746 Miles To My Happy Place
by Kara Donovan

April 4, 2021 Contributed By: Kara Donovan

Women Walking

Before going to Korea, I hated being Asian. Growing up in a very white community didn’t help either. I grew up where we rarely learned about other cultures, and when we did, I was beyond anxious. I thought of myself as being white, and when someone brought up my being Asian, I would be so […]

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays Posted On: April 4, 2021

Feminist Flashback: The Woman’s Film
by Jennifer Gauthier

March 29, 2021 Contributed By: Jennifer Gauthier

The Woman's Film (1971)

I can’t remember precisely the first time I saw The Woman’s Film, a collaborative short documentary made by San Francisco Newsreel in 1971, but I do remember being struck by its boldly feminist mode of address and content. It has stuck with me for years and now I use it in class anytime I can. […]

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays, Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: March 29, 2021

Moxie’s Militant Millennial Feminism
by Jennifer L. Gauthier

March 25, 2021

Moxie Still

In 1913, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst famously said, “You cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs.”  The protagonist of Moxie, Amy Poehler’s new film on Netflix, doesn’t break any eggs, but she does smash the principal’s “Best Principal” trophy, en route to “smashing the patriarchy.” Vivian (Hadley Robinson) learns this phrase – and goal – from her […]

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays Posted On: March 25, 2021

Sellouts 1970: Love Story: The Year a Screenplay-Turned-Novel Almost Broke the National Book Award
by Kirk Sever

January 25, 2021 Contributed By: Kirk Sever

Welcome to Sellouts: 50 Years of Bestsellers, the feature where we pore over the best most popular fiction in America from the last half-century, one year at a time. * For our first installment, we visit an all too familiar setting: a United States fed-up-with and angry about government ineptitude and civil rights inequalities. No, […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Fiction Posted On: January 25, 2021

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