What I read today- March 19
- Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall, The New Yorker
- Step Inside Manhattan’s Only Underground Chef’s Farm Supplying Rare Herbs to NYC Restaurants, Untapped Cities
- For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It, Nat Geo
- 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo, The Guardian
What I read today march 16
- AN INTEREST IN READING -- MONTESSORI YOUNG TODDLER WEEK 15, thekavanaughreport
- Parenting Doesn’t Matter, The Slate
- Why America's Teachers Haven't Been Getting Raises, The Atlantic
- Silent Barn’s Demise Is a Cautionary Tale for DIY Spaces, Village Voice
What I read today March 15
- Running From the Pain, Slate
- Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?, NY Times
- Thoughts as nest eggs, Austin Kleon
- WHY CHOOSE MONTESSORI AT HOME?, the kavanaugh report
- Sharon Stone Opens Her Doors to AD, Architectural Digest
- Annamarie Tendler Mulaney Taught Herself How to Make Victorian Lampshades—and Now It's Her Full-Time Job, Architectural Digest
I follow a woman on IG from the UK who makes refreshingly beautiful lampshades, but had yet to find such a detailed description of making one! - These Are the Women of Color Who Fought Both Sexism and the Racism of White Feminists, The Root
- The Trump Administration Is Using the Parkland Massacre as an Excuse to Roll Back Civil Rights, ACLU
- Easter Island is critically vulnerable to rising ocean levels., NY Times
- In Defense of Trends (Keep Calm and Let Them Be), Design Sponge
What I read today March 14
- Q&A: Practicing Inclusivity in the Design Industry with People of Craft, Design Sponge
- Bad Color, Design Observer
- Millions of Students Are Quietly Being Taught the Koch Brothers’ Whitewashed Version of Black History, The Root
- Is Millennial Minimalism On Its Way Out?, Eye ON Design
- Pantherpedia: A guide to the cottage industry of essays about Ryan Coogler's 'Black Panther', LA Times
- Carnival of the Grotesque: Kara Walker’s Insistent Resistance in New Orleans, Village Voice
- Someone Yarn-Bombed a Guggenheim Museum Toilet with Gold Crochet, Hyperallergic
What I read today March 8
- The Seductive Confinement of a Weighted Blanket in an Anxious Time, The New Yorker
- Thriving in the Gig Economy, Harvard Business Review
- For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned., NY Times
- Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco, NY Times
I basically lived in a dorm in SF with foreign exchange students. Of course, back then, it was a fraction of the price! - Productivity Is Really About What You Don’t Do, Jocelyn K. Glei
- Filmmaker Leslie Harris Looks Back at Fort Greene Set of ‘Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.’ 25 Years Later, Brownstoner
- Yumna Al-Arashi captures the last generation of Muslim women with facial tattoos, It's Nice That
- “If it’s about farts, draw a butt for god’s sakes”: Mona Chalabi tells us how to illustrate data, It's Nice That
- Elizabeth Friedlander: one of the first women to design a typeface, It's Nice That
What I read today March 7
- West Virginia Raises Teachers’ Pay to End Statewide Strike, NY Times
- The Rediscovery of 5 ‘Extinct’ Types of Heritage Apple, Atlas Obscura
- The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions, NY Times
- A French graphic designer faces an uphill battle to prove Disney copied his work, Quartz
- Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs, Buzzfeed news
- ‘Decolonizing’ Roller Derby? Team Indigenous Takes Up the Challenge, NY Times
- Her Tiny Apartment is New York’s Most Secret Jazz Club, Messy Nessy Chic
- About New York; Sweet Sounds Ease the Pain, Then and Now, NY Times
- Architects discuss the future of the NYPL’s soon-to-be-transformed Mid-Manhattan branch, Curbed
- ‘The Bachelor’ tries to do damage control after disastrous finale, but only makes things worse, Washington Post
- The Death and Life of a Great American Building, NY Review of Books
Such a lovely ode to an old building
What I read today March 6
- 202 CITY-OWNED LOTS SOLD TO HOUSING DEVELOPERS FOR $1 EACH SINCE 2014, MAPPED AT ONEDOLLARLOTS.ORG, 596 Acres
- The future of Israel’s “dreamers”, Washington Post
- Decolonizing Birth: Women Take Back Their Power as Life-Givers, Yes Magazine
- Destination POV, Document
- 'Mega-colonies' of 1.5 million penguins discovered in Antarctica, The Guardian
- The Struggle of Keeping a Roadside Attraction Alive, Atlas Obscura
- Two Very Different Kinds of Illustration, Subtraction
What I read today March 5
- 'Lady Bird' Was Influenced by 'Real Women Have Curves' and No One Outside the Latinx Community Is Acknowledging It, Marie Claire
- The Power of Grief-Fueled Activism, The Atlantic
- When Is a Child Instagram-Ready?, NY Times
- I’m Days Away From Giving Birth and Terrified, Man Repeller
- The Cruel Ploy of Taking Immigrant Kids From Their Parents, NY Times
- LIVING IN LIMBO, The Globe and Mail
- 60 Wild Coyotes Patrol Chicago (And Occasionally Stop At Convenience Stores), NPR
- Alone with Her Bike, the First Females to Ride Around the World, Messy Nessy Chic
- Here’s How Much Money Green Design Could Save Cities, next City
Oh hey, I'm in this pic
What I read today March 2
- Why Paper Jams Persist, The New Yorker
- I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories, The Atlantic
- Beauty Brands Struggle With The Diverse Opinions That Come With Diverse Faces, NPR
- Here’s why Lego is swapping plastic for plants, Fast Co
- Why Design Thinking is bullshit, It's Nice That
- Stamps of a Revolution: Ali Mobasser’s Iranian stamp collection and incredible family story, It's Nice THat
- Celebrating The Art Form Of African Hair Threading, Refinery 29
- Quilts as Tools for Resistance, hyperallergic
- Weekend Heller: MoMA Acquires Typographic Op-Eds, PrintMag
- The Secret, Subversive + Revolutionary Language of the East African Kanga, AIGA Eye on Design
- Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show, NYTimes
What I read today March 1
“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.” - Bruce Lee
- Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success, Brain Pickings
- I Know Why Black Women Are Wary of Reproductive Activism, Yes Magazine
- No Sign of Newborn North Atlantic Whales This Breeding Season, NY Times
- RESPECTING CHILDREN IN PUBLIC PLACES, the kavanaugh report
- Food Storage as Grandma Knew It, NY Times
What I read today Feb 27
- A Larger Role for Midwives Could Improve Deficient U.S. Care for Mothers and Babies, ProPublica
- Parkland Student Emma González Opens Up About Her Fight for Gun Control, Bazaar
- Are There Better L-Train Shutdown Solutions? City Didn’t Study Them, Village voice
- Born to Be Wild: Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss Fights for Our Land, Village VOice
- The Death of a Skyscraper, ny mAG
- Worst Roommate Ever, NY Mag
- White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities, Smithsonian
- Magnificent Obsession, T Magazine
What I read today Feb 23
- Anni Albers’s Thoughts on Textiles Loom Large, hyperallergic
- Art’s Gender Divide in 19th-Century Paris, hyperallergic
- The Story Behind This Year’s Winter Olympics Medal Design, hyperallergic
- A New York Walking Tour Uncovers Hidden Histories of Slavery and Struggle, hyperallergic
- Exclusive: Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle, Nat Geo
- Everything I’ve Learned About Gun Control aka “Holy Shit, Stop Trying to Ban Assault Weapons”, Medium
- Tracing Your Roots: My Confederate Ancestor Is on Monuments; Who Did He Own?, The Root
- Armed Sheriff’s Deputy Who Never Confronted Gunman During Parkland, Fla., Shooting Thinks ‘He Did a Good Job’ , The Root
- What It's Like to Rebound as a Young, Homeless Mother, Vice
- Are Babies Able to See What Others Feel?, WSJ
- GOTHAMIST LIVES, THANKS TO A BOOST FROM PUBLIC RADIO, Wired
What I read today Feb 22
- OUR BAKING ESSENTIALS, the kavanaugh report
- Who Gets Left Out of the Advice to ‘Make Your Own Happiness’, The Cut
- How Conversation Dinners revolutionize the ways we communicate, Medium
- Tim Minchin: These 9 Life Lessons will Make you Laugh – and Learn, Goalcast
- The life and death of Willets Point, Curbed
- How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope, The Atlantic
- Florida Teachers’ Pension Fund Invested in Maker of School Massacre Gun, Bloomberg
- Trump Suggests Bonuses for Gun-Trained Teachers, Praises the NRA, Bloomberg
- Historic Aircrafts Are Restored by Volunteers at NYC’s Floyd Bennett Field, Untapped Cities
- City to Bushwick: Displacement Not Our Problem, Village Voice
What I read today Feb 20
- THE (REALLY, REALLY) RACIST HISTORY OF GUN CONTROL IN AMERICA, MTV
- The Kids Are Not Alright, Village Voice
- Conservatives Attack “Black Panther” — But, When It Hits, Declare It Conservative, Village Voice
- You Have Millennials to Thank for All the Responsibly Sourced Decor in Your House, Clever
- Improvised Feminism: 11-Year-Old’s Barbie Reconstruction Obliterates Stereotypes, Improvised Life