What I read today Nov 14
Just Say No to HQ2 , Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York
City, state announce Amazon’s arrival—which may trigger $3B in subsidies, Crain’s
Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal, City Lab
Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer, CBC
NY Politician: We Need to Block $3 Billion Handout for Amazon & Use Money to Forgive Student Debt, Democracy Now
What I read today Nov 13
'Jinn' Is a Remarkably Honest Portrait of Black Muslim Girlhood, Broadly
What Are Jinn: The Arab Spirits Who Can Eat, Sleep, Have Sex, and Die, Broadly
22 Years Later, Everyone Is Still Copying Lil' Kim's 'Hard Core' Style, Broadly
Amazon HQ2 Goes to New York City and Northern Virginia, City Lab
Austin's Fix for Homelessness: Tiny Houses, and Lots of Neighbors, City Lab
A Secret Archive in New York City that Saved Tiffany Lamps from Extinction, Messy nessy Chic
Sugar Works, NY Times
Why There’s No Place Quite Like the American Garage, Atlas Obscura
The myth of the postpartum love rush, The Outline
Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap, Yes Magazine
What I read today Nov 12
NATIVE TRIBES ARE TAKING FIRE CONTROL INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, Wired
Wildfires Are Essential: The Forest Service Embraces a Tribal Tradition, Yes Magazine
On Whiteness: Positionality, Sacrifice, and Collective Responsibility, Medium
How the mushroom dream of a ‘long-haired hippie’ could help save the world’s bees, Seattle Times
Site of Bed Stuy’s Former Slave Theater Back on Market for $37.95 Million, Brownstoner
Downtown church shopping itself around, Brooklyn Paper
Everyone Believed Larry Nassar, The Cut
What I read today Nov 7
Abrams doesn't concede in Georgia, predicts runoff in governor's race, NBC
Night of Firsts: Diverse Candidates Make History in Midterm Elections, NY Times
Kentucky Clerk Who Refused Gay Marriage Licenses Loses Election, NY Times
She drank kratom tea while pregnant. Then her newborn went into withdrawal, CNN
This Midwife Is Fighting to Make Vaginal Breech Births a Thing Again, Healthline
Trump Forces Out Jeff Sessions and Installs Top Aide as Acting Attorney General, NY Times
Brian Kemp’s Lead in Georgia Needs an Asterisk, The Atlantic
The Husband Stitch Isn’t Just a Horrifying Childbirth Myth, Healthline
Cleveland doulas fight infant mortality in their neighborhoods, one birth at a time: Saving the Smallest, Plain Dealer
The macho sperm myth, aeon
What I read today Nov 6
WHAT DO MY {SCREEN FREE} KIDS DO AFTER SCHOOL?, the kavanaugh report
Designs for Bushwick Inlet, Box Street Parks Unveiled to Mixed Feedback, Greenpoint Post
CityViews: A Teen Calls for Opening Up Community Boards—Via Term Limits, City Limits
Fat White Women Owe Credit to Black Actresses, Say Rebel Wilson's Critics, Broadly
Convicted Felons on What They Want You to Know About the Midterms, Broadly
My State Has the Highest Maternal Death Rate—Stacey Abrams Plans to Change That, Broadly
Joe Manchin’s Yes on Kavanaugh Finds Sympathy in West Virginia, NY Times
Boro Prez: Community board term limits are a gift to developers, The Villiager
Extreme Birth, NY Mag
The Strangest Form of White Flight, City Lab
How a Trump Birthright Citizenship Order Would Affect Millions of Children, City Lab
Georgians 'Overwhelm' the Polls Despite Voter Suppression Anxiety, Broadly
Meet The Whisperers: The Christian Folk Healers of Eastern Poland, Culture.Pl
What Is Known About Slavic Mythology, Culture.Pl
WITCHES, HEALERS AND SPELL CASTERS FROM POLAND, The Other
“To be a witch means to be a woman of knowledge. Every woman has access to this aspect of herself. The women I photographed and interviewed for the book are more aware of the potential of this part of them-selves and have decided to cherish it. Their scope of activity is broad – herbs, midwifery and healing to art, social activism, and the initiation of new religions”, comments Katarzyna.
What I read today Nov 5
Why Are We Only Talking About ‘Mom Books’ by White Women?, The Cut
Editorial: No on Issue 1: Major reforms require more deliberation, Columbus Dispatch
Stacey Abrams's Prescription for a Maternal-Health Crisis, The Atlantic
See What Your Home Once Looked Like With Newly Digitized 1940s Tax Photos, Brownstoner
OMG OMG fangirling outWhat’s on the Back of the Ballot in New York City? 3 Ways to Tweak Democracy, NY Times
New School Study Uncovers Another $1 Billion In Hudson Yards Subsidies, Gothamist
THE HEART OF WHITENESS: ON SPIRITUAL TOURISM AND THE COLONIZATION OF AYAHUASCA, Bitch Media
Three New York City Ballot Proposals, One Worth Supporting, NY Times
It’s 2018, and New York Still Doesn’t Care About Your Vote., Medium
NYC’s community board term limits ballot measure, explained, Curbed
What I read today Nov 2
Voters, You’re Being Manipulated, NY Times
How to Be the Go-to House, NY Times
What I read today Oct 29
What It’s Like to Be a Baby Nurse for Wealthy Manhattan Families, The Cut
Boy Talk: Breaking Masculine Stereotypes, NY Times
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley, NY Times
The Class of 1946–2018, NY Magazine
WATCH: AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS
How these penny-pinchers retired in their 30s, PBS News Hour
Brazil's New President Once Told a Politician She Was Too Ugly to Rape, Broadly
The Pittsburgh Shooting Was a Deliberate Attack on My Community, The Nation
What I read today Oct 26
Straight Women Are Marrying Each Other for Safety in Tanzania, Broadly
The Art of Japanese Funeral Floral Arrangements, spoon & tamago
Solange, the Polymathic Cultural Force, NY Times Style Magazine
Liverwort plants contain a painkiller similar to the one in marijuana, Science News
What I read today Oct 23
He Witnessed A Rape In 1969. He's Finally Ready To Talk About It, NPR
What it’s really like to raise a transgender child, Motherly
LISTEN: The Power of Comforting Touch During Labor, with Yiska Obadia, Birthful
Baby Names Show Enormous Gender Gap, Live Science
Baby box safety doubts raised by experts, BBC News
Why I Wanted to Learn to Perform Abortions, NY Times
Rather hard to readInherited Trauma Shapes Your Health, The Atlantic
Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination, NY Times
I think I need some lighter reading materialTHE WING LAUNCHES CHILDCARE WITH “THE LITTLE WING, Mother Mag
What I read today Oct 19
TODDLER BEAD THREADING, the kavanaugh report
Coffee Shop to Chase Bank , vanishing new york
On Bowery, Cultures Clash as the Shabby Meet the Shabby Chic, NY Times
How a Garden For the Poor Became a Playground For the Rich, NY Times
What I read today Oct 18
Bed-Stuy May Be Changing, but There Is Still a Line for Ribs, NY Times
Is It Possible to Be an Anti-Abortion Democrat? One Woman Tried to Find Out, NY Times
Can a Democrat Be Pro-Life?, National Review
What Justice Ginsburg Can Learn from Justice Kavanaugh, National Review
I’m Blacker Than Liz Warren Is Indian, American Conservative
Intersectional Feminism Broke Her, American Conservative
White Feminism Isn’t the Problem (but You Might Be if You Think So), Tablet
I get what Phetasy is saying, but I don’t think diversity is harmful and to support others, you can’t always center yourself.Witches: The New Woke Heroines, American Conservative
I recently had a discussion with a friend about how I find witchcraft-new-age stuff hard to believe because it feels like it comes from a point of trendiness and not a studied belief system. Pop culture / young adults are less likely to subscribe to formal religions, but don’t look at their beliefs in totality. I also saw the Catland hex on Kavanaugh and was appalled that people would want to put so much bad energy into the world, particularly those who identify as healers and their work centers on promoting the idea of consent within culture. Franklin Evans puts this into pretty succinct words in this article: “…magic used with the intention to harm is without exception antithetical to the ethic of consent”We “refuse to be silent any longer”: magic as self-care after Kavanaugh, Vox
We’re a middle-class black family. Here’s why we’ve skipped our local schools for now., Chalkbeat
Schools make me anxious
What I read today Oct 17
How hospitals are failing black mothers, Salon
Backup doula for a client delivering at SUNY Downstate and am a bit nervous…Black Mothers Face Higher Complication Rates When Delivering Babies in NYC, WNYC
Going to daycare has a positive effect on your child’s emotional development, says study, Motherly
Phrase ‘abortion on demand’ has dishonest edge, The Irish Times
In Georgia Governor’s Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State, NY Times
LISTEN: Abrams Blue Wave
A new clash over voting engulfs Georgia gov candidates, Politically Georgia
What It Takes to Build an Anarchist Desert Town, Atlas Obscura
A Century Ago, Wood-Eating Worms Devastated San Francisco Bay, Atlas Obscura
The Most Memorable Strangers You’ve Met While Traveling, Atlas Obscura
New York Governor Cuomo Should Not Play Politics With Black Maternal Health, Rewire News
What I read today Oct 16
How Racism and Patriarchy Is Taught at School, Harpers Bazaar
Don't despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is, The Guardian
Brooklyn Food Incubator Pilotworks Abruptly Closed Over the Weekend, Grubstreet
Kemp Wants Verifiable Voting — After His Own Governor’s Race, WABE
Democrats Left in the Dark as GOP House Committee Launches Maternal Mortality Investigation, Rewire News