What I read today - Aug 9
- A Specialized Graphic Design Bookstore Comes to Brooklyn, Design Milk
This guy went to my university. He's doing well, but it makes me feel like I'm not doing enough! - Required Reading: How They Decorated, Inspiration from Great Women of the 20th Century, Remodelista
- AIGA Design Census 2016: Investigating Design’s Gender Pay Gap, AIGA OC
- So you want to live in a beautiful mid-century home…. how do you feel about Ohio?, Miss Moss
- Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day, NPR
This is essentially the exercise my midwife told me to do since my abs are seperated from pregnancy - Times Square Phone Booths Call Up Immigrants’ Stories, hyperallergic
- B&H Photo Workers Protest Outside New York Mayor’s Mansion, hyperallergic
- Louisiana Law Restricting Immigrants’ Right to Marry Struck Down, courthouse news service
- See BUST's Own Callie Watts' Mermaid Witch Handfasting Photos, Bust
pfft, wife - City shafting local dollar vans, licensing Cali startup as L train alternative, Brokelyn
what i read today - August 8
- Housing, not warehousing, Crains
- New City Council bill would create a comprehensive urban agriculture plan for New York, 6 sqft
- My life without gender: 'Strangers are desperate to know what genitalia I have', the guardian
- I Quit Showering, and Life Continued, the atlantic
- The Loveliest Living Fossil, Hoeffler and Co.
- When Straight Couples Use The Term ‘Partner’, Role Reboot
- What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?, PS Mag
- Why Isn't Sex Education a Part of Common Core?, PS Mag
- In the 1990s, America took thousands of immigrant orphans from LA and dumped them in Tijuana jails, Timeline
- Hey Mommy Bloggers - Thanks. , rachel held evans
- Jen’s Richmond Reno: The Kitchen, jen chu design
- Jen’s Richmond Reno: How Many Different Ugly Ceilings Can One House Have?, jen chu design
what I read today - August 7
- The Secret Life of the City Banana, NY Times
- Why Americans Are Cursing More Than Ever, Atlas Obscura
- How Far Do Roller-Grill Hot Dogs Travel?, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Aug 3
- Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half, NY Times
- Anyone With A Library Card Can Now Stream Thousands Of Feature Films, Including The Criterion Collection, Gothamist
- Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals, WaPo
- Trump Has Launched A "Real News" Program On His Facebook, Hosted By His Daughter-In-Law, Buzzfeed
- How Dutch Wax Fabrics Became a Mainstay of African Fashion , hyperallergic
- The Curious History of “Tribal” Prints, Slate
- The Names & Meaning of The WaxPrint Designs on Our African Print Fabrics., naaoyooquartey
- Japan’s ‘crow tribe’ is the reason everyone started wearing black in New York, Timeline
- The Misfit, The New Yorker
What I read today - Aug 2
- Democracy is dying – and it’s startling how few people are worried, The Guardian
- These 5 Neighborhood Maps Show Roots of Gentrification, Next City
- New York’s tradition of uncapping fire hydrants to beat the heat, 6sqft
- Hollywood-style ‘Brooklyn!’ sign is trivializing, doesn’t belong in Watchtower icon’s place, Brokelyn
What I read today - July 31
- Montessori Weaning Cup -- Montessori Baby Week 34, the kavanaugh report
- What It Takes to Mentor Poor Kids, The Atlantic
- Not Just Bushwick: New Study Charts Where NYC Artists Live, hyperallergic
- Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos, hyperallergic
- Who Killed New York City?, The New Republic
"... to preserve the more vivid and humane New York they describe, comradeship is everything. A New Yorker is someone who understands that a New York way of life is, at once, all ways of life. New York is a city of options. Shopsin and Moss suggest that a real New Yorker might attend to those that aren’t found elsewhere by frequenting her city’s small businesses and otherwise being a neighbor." - New York Today: The Greenest Block in Brooklyn, NY Times
What I read this week - July 23 to 29
- Protesters rip ‘bullet holes’ wall decor of Brooklyn restaurant, ny daily news
- Why Millennial Pink Refuses to Go Away, the cut
July 27 - went back to work
- Photos: The Last Secret, Illicit Parties Atop The Old Kosciuszko Bridge, The Gothamist
- Moving, Moving -- Montessori Baby Week 33, the kavanaugh report
- How to Be a Minimalist with Kids, Mother Mag
- Monday, 8 A.M.: Time to Have a Baby, Scientific American
- A look at Asmara, Africa’s unknown city of modernist architecture, Curbed
- Baby feeding bottles that could kill, Baby Bottle Museum
There's a Baby Bottle Museum!!! - Health Care Debate: Obamacare Repeal Fails as McCain Casts Decisive No Vote, NY Times
- WHO WAS SHE? A DNA TEST ONLY OPENED NEW MYSTERIES., WaPo
- Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color, The Atlantic
- The Secrets of Chicken Flocks’ Pecking Order, Modern Farmer
What I read this week - July 16-22
- REALITIES OF A MONTESSORI FLOOR BED -- MONTESSORI BABY WEEK 32, the kavanaugh report
- BABY PROOFING WITH A MONTESSORI FLOOR BED, the kavanaugh report
- Why You Don’t Want to Have a Baby in a Car, NY Times
What I read this week - July 2 to July 8
- Thunder Thighs': The Summer Anthem That Celebrates Every Woman, NPR
- When the Well Runs Dry, Try Dry Farming, Modern Farmer
- The Miracle Milk Cookie, Lifestyle Hunting
- What Do You Avoid? Where Do You Belong?, Urban Omibus
- Hunting for Famous Architects’ Forgotten Design-School Projects, Atlas Obscura
- Beatrix Potter’s Greatest Work Was a Secret, Coded Journal She Kept as a Teen, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - May 28 to June 3
I had a baby... so moving to weekly read lists for a while..
- Get the Epidural, NY Times
- Mothers Photographed With Their Day-Old Newborns, Slate
- How to Raise a Feminist Son, NY Times
What I read today may 16
- Why do we make children sleep alone?, LA Times
- The reason you answer work email on the weekend is actually 500 years old, Timeline
- The Stolen African Slave who became Queen Victoria’s God-daughter, Messy Nessy Chic
- Trump to Expand Funding Ban Tied to Abortion Overseas, NY Times
- My Family’s Slave, The Atlantic
What I read today May 15
- How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In, NY Times
- Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Synagogue Destroyed by Fire on the Lower East Side, Untapped Cities
- Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable, NY Times
- Dakota Access pipeline has first leak before it's fully operational, The Guardian
- If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy, NY Times
What I read today May 12
- The Nostalgia of Estate Sales, New Republic
- Hear the Voices of Brooklyn’s Diverse Past Through a New Digitization Project, hyperallergic
- Pain in the Ass: a Birth Story, Wit & Delight
- The Mysterious Tree of a Newborn’s Life, NY Times
- Sessions orders return to tough drug war policies that trigger mandatory minimum sentences, LA Times
What I read today May 11
- What Becoming a Parent Taught Me About Design and Control, Design Sponge
- Dekalb is More Than an Avenue, Print Mag
- Garlic Mustard: Evil, Invasive, Delicious, NY Times
- How To Pick The Perfect Watermelon: 5 Key Tips From An Experienced Farmer!, Home Gardening Life
- Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them, NY Times
- Against Little Free Libraries, City Lab
- Ivanka Trump's Book Is an Insult to Real Women Who Work, Elle
- Donald Trump Tries to Explain Economics to The Economist. Hilarity Ensues., NY Mag
- Little Free Libraries®: Interrogating the impact of the branded book exchange [PDF], Radical Librarianship
What I read today - May 10
- “There’s way worse videos”: Today’s students on Rodney King, the society pages
- The Surprising Challenges of Making Things Vegan, Atlas Obscura
- This Controversial Company Wants To Disrupt The Birth World, Buzzfeed
- Confessions of a Radical Doula, The Cut