What I read today Oct 5
What if paying rent on time boosted your credit score?, Fast Company
Success Academy is moving into Brooklyn school despite opposition, NY Daily News
Kansas City Lovers Of 'Very Strange, Outside The Mainstream' Movies Now Have A Home, KBIA
Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners, The Guardian
WATCH: Watch a Midwife and a Doula Fact-Check Hollywood Birth Scenes, Vulture
What I read today Oct 4
Two People Were Being Harassed For Speaking Spanish In A Grocery Store. Then This Woman Stepped In., Buzzfeed News
Driven by South’s Past, Black Women Seek Votes and a New Future, NY Times
Woman's Day 5107 - Down-to-Earth Smock, Unsung Sewing Patterns
Woolmark Prize Winner Bodice Is a Handmade Homage to India—And So Much More, Vogue
Ms. Colombia, Beloved Jackson Heights LGBT Figure, Found Dead, Jackson Heights Post
The Unlikely Politics of a Digital Contraceptive, The new Yorker
What I read today Oct 3
Why Is Giving Birth So Hard?, The Atlantic
City Takes Third African American Owned Property Under Guise of Affordability, Kings County Politics
University of Virginia Historian Documents How Black-Owned Land Was Stolen, JBHE
Raising a Black Boy Not to Be Afraid, Literary Hub
Black male youth more fearful when visiting whiter neighborhoods, Ohio State University
Black Boys Feel Less Safe in White Neighborhoods, Study Shows, NY Times
Women Are Being Denied Epidurals During Childbirth. Here's Why., Broadly
LPC approves additional demo of fire-ravaged Lower East Side synagogue, Curbed
See the NYC neighborhoods where displacement is a growing threat, Curbed
What I read today Sept 27
Fidget spinners, weighted blankets, and the rise of anxiety consumerism, Vox
Brands Are Dipping Into Life Coaching and Sex Advice, Racked
The Many Faces of Women Who Identify as Witches, The New YOrker
Bushwick Community Plan Calls for More Affordability and Historic Districts, Brownstoner
Christine Blasey Ford Testifies: ‘I Believed He Was Going to Rape Me’, NY Times
‘Risky Business’ and Brett Kavanaugh, 35 Years Later, NY Times
How to Make a Sheet-Pan Dinner, NY Times
What I read today Sept 26
NYC has lost one million low-rent apartments since 2005, Controller Scott Stringer says, NY Daily News
Black Feminist Literature at the NY Art Book Fair: An Interview with the Free Black Women’s Library, hyperallergic
Black Feminism Will Save Us All, Portside
Aretha Franklin died with an $80 million fortune — here's why she demanded to be paid only in cash, Insider
'A hopeless place': St Louis workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison, The Guardian
What I read today Sept 25
INTERVIEW: THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF AUTISTIC ARCHITECTURAL ARTIST WILLIAM SCOTT, Pin-Up
The Triangle Shirtwaist Memorialist, NY Review of Books
Family Keeps Memory of Hero Triangle Fire Elevator Operator Alive, WNYC
The nearly erased artist behind the hidden face of the proposed Faneuil Hall memorial, Boston Globe
The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man, The New Republic
WATCH: Meet the Artist: Duane Flatmo on Tin Pan Dragon for “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man”
WATCH: Meet The Artist: Richard Wilks on "Evotrope" for “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man”
‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’, The Atlantic
My Year of No Shopping, NY Times
James, Adams Look Into City’s Seizure Of Properties, Kings County Politics
What I read today Sept 24
UC Researcher Examines Effect of Racism on the Health of Whites, University of Cincinnati
The Mothers Who Can't Escape the Trauma of Childbirth, The Atlantic
The Prostitution Empire and the Former N.Y.P.D. Detective, Always One Step Ahead of the Law, NY Times
Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone, neuroanthropology
My Conversation With Co-Sleeping Expert James McKenna, Huff Post
What I read today Sept 21
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong, Huffington Post
Throw Your Children’s Art Away, The Atlantic
What I read today Sept 17
Here's How to Find Out How Racist Your Kids' School Is, Colorlines
How do children of color learn to draw themselves?, The Outline
Rihanna Included Two Pregnant Models in Her Savage x Fenty Fashion Show, Harpers Bazaar
Why Some Parents Turn Boys’ Names Into Girls’ Names, The Atlantic
I’m a free-range parent. My toddler’s concussion changed everything. WaPo
What Kids' Backpacks Say About Them, The Atlantic
The Health Impact of Undescended Testicles, NY Times
The Abortion I Almost Forgot, NY Times
How many toys do kids really need?, Motherly
St. Denis Coming Down , vanishing new york
Why pediatricians want baby walkers removed from stores, Motherly
What I read today Sept 13
Against Chill, Medium
This Week in Julia Salazar, NY Times
The cost of daycare is almost as much as rent in some cities, Motherly
COOKING AND BAKING WITH YOUR TODDLER, the kavanaugh report
WATCH: I’m Pregnant
What I read today Sept 11
Here’s What the Watermelon Was Up to Before It Tasted Good, Atlas Obscura
Kamala Harris Stumps Brett Kavanaugh with Abortion Question, Broadly
It Came From the '70s: The Story of Your Grandma's Weird Couch, Collectors Weekly
James Baldwin's Sole Children's Book Comes Back into Print, Publishers Weekly
Performing Blackness Won't Fill Our Asian-American Culture Deficit [OP-ED], Colorlines
Prison labor is modern slavery. I've been sent to solitary for speaking out, The Guardian
How the Smithsonian Helped Sleuth Out the True Identity of a Pair of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers, SmithsonianMag
Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery, Amusing Planet
What I read today Sept 7
- Thank You for Not Eating Your Placenta, NY Times
- Bed-Stuy brownstone sails past neighborhood record, sells for $6.3M, Curbed
- Why Does the School Day End Two Hours Before the Workday?, Atlantic
- How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism, The Atlantic
- When Giving Birth Leads to Psychosis, Then to Infanticide, The Atlantic
- This is the only parenting book you ever really need to read, Quartz
- So, How Bad Is It to Smoke Pot While Pregnant?, The Cut