What I read today Dec 12

• This Is the Story Behind Madagascar's Incredibly Long and Unpronounceable Names, Culture Trip

• ‘Appalling’ Video Shows the Police Yanking 1-Year-Old From His Mother’s Arms, NY Times

• Charges Dropped Against Brooklyn Mother Who Had Baby Ripped from Her Arms by Police, NY Times

What I read today Dec 10

• The most important lessons from the emotionally charged breastfeeding debate, Quartz

• Why Are Gender Reveal Parties a Thing?, NY Times

• Smithsonian to Open Its First-Ever Gallery Devoted to Latinx Experiences, Receives $10M Donation, Hyperallergic

• Activists Protest at Whitney Museum, Demanding Vice Chairman and Owner of Tear Gas Manufacturer “Must Go”, Hyperallergic

• Why Are Even “Feminist” Book Cover Designs Still So Sexist?, AIGA Eye on Design

• Don’t worry, be angry: how politics and creativity collided in 2018, It’s Nice That

• Folding as Craft Tech, Kelli Anderson

• Ladybugs Pack Wings and Engineering Secrets in Tidy Origami Packages, NY Times

• It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine), Mother Jones

• Doctors Aren’t Sure How This Even Came Out of a Patient, The Atlantic

What I read today Dec 7

• Chase’s plan to shrink public space at new Midtown HQ met with skepticism, Curbed

• What if you could walk to the airport?, Curbed

• Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers, NY Times

What I read today Dec 6

• Closing New York’s Penal Colony, Design Observer

• More Designers and Illustrators Than Ever Are Saying, “Oh My God, Maybe I’m a Socialist.”, Eye on Design

• The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”, raptitude

• #KEITHJACKSONMATTERS: The Kid That Sold Crack To The President, POINTS: THE BLOG OF THE ALCOHOL & DRUGS HISTORY SOCIETY

• New Public Spaces Are Supposed to Be for All. The Reality Is More Complicated., NY Times

• Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’, NY Times

• How artist Sandy Rodriguez tells today's fraught immigration story with pre-Columbian painting tools, LA Times

• In Dallas, Ida O’Keeffe Could Finally Escape Georgia’s Shadow, Texas Monthly

• Graphic Advocacy Project
  FASCINATING and amazing

What I read today Dec 5

• Don’t Cry for Him, Argentina: Goodbye to the Lesser-of-Two-Evils Bush, Village Voice

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Pay Her Interns 'At Least' $15 an Hour, Broadly

What I read today Dec 3

• A mother and her girls tried to reach the US border. Then they got tear-gassed, CNN

• REAL STORIES FROM THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TRAVELING ON THE CARAVAN, Elle

• Number Of U.S. Kids Who Don't Have Health Insurance Is On The Rise, NPR

• Why New York Lags So Far Behind on Natural Childbirth, NY Times

• The Over-celebration of Life Events, The Atlantic
  ALL OF THIS MAKES ME ANXIOUS. Can nothing be private anymore?

• 48 of the Coolest Kids in New York, NY Times Magazine

• WATCH: Kids Try 100 Years of School Lunches | Bon Appétit

• Mother sues US for $60 million after toddler detained at immigration facility later died, CNN

• Steph Curry responds to 9-year-old’s letter asking why his shoes aren’t made for girls, Motherly

• A Plea to Protect the Strand , vanishing new york

• 33, Married, & Ready For A Baby: I Am The Face Of Late-Term Abortion, Refinery 29

• Historic homes 101: What exactly is a ‘summer kitchen’?, Curbed

What I read today Nov 30

• White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness, NY Times Magazine

• What is white culture, exactly? Here's what the stats say, The Guardian

• A Sad Day: Never Trust a City Lawyer

• Beloved Lower Manhattan Sculpture Garden Defends Itself as City Demands Total Removal, Hyperallergic

• The Case for Black With a Capital B, NY Times

• Black Athena, White Power, Medium

• Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens, Hyperallergic

• A Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt’s Great Pyramid, Scientific American

• White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities, Smithsonian

What I read today Nov 29

• A Follower-Free App Asks You to Photograph Moments You Normally Don’t Share, Hyperallergic

• Video: Turkey Devours Leftover Turkey On Subway Train, Gothamist

• The Japanese Prints that Inspired Vincent van Gogh, Hyperallergic

• Discerning Photography’s White Gaze, Hyperallergic

• Big in Japan, NY Times Magazine

• The Tenement Museum Maps a Century of Deadly Diseases and Their Human Stories, Hyperallergic

• A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America, Hyperallergic

What I read today Nov 28

• Rose McGowan's gender-fluid partner Rain Dove was MACED in a public bathroom by mother who thought the model was a man - and then GLOATED about the violent attack on Instagram, Daily mail

• Salt Lake City’s ‘street without a street’ is a 90-year-old hidden gem —one that homeowners and historians hope to preserve, Salt Lake Tribune

• The Insect Apocalypse Is Here, NY Times Magazine
  This makes me sad as I have a lovely fondness for insects.
  The Latin root of the word “amateur” is, after all, the word “lover.”

• 'Outrageous' Gold Rush-Style Grab of Public Lands to Begin Friday, EcoWatch

• This Artist Photographs Her Lovers — Using A Camera Placed In Her Vagina, Bust

• How This Dutch Graphic Designer Became a Civic-Architecture Star, Architectural Digest

• Meet Wrappy Paper, the Gift-Wrap Brand Changing Everything, Clever

What I read today Nov 27

• Rethinking Bed Rest For Pregnancy. NPR

• Twin's Difficult Birth Put A Project Designed To Reduce C-Sections To The Test, NPR

• HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT THANKSGIVING, Mother Mag

• Helping My Fair-Skinned Son Embrace His Blackness, The Atlantic

• Ohio Republicans declare motherhood “necessary,” want to make it mandatory, Salon

• Tests Showed Children Were Exposed to Lead. The Official Response: Challenge the Tests, NY TImes

• Snøhetta-designed Far Rockaway library breaks ground, Curbed

• ‘Yeah, I’m Not for Everyone.’ Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself., NY Mag

What I read today Nov 20

• UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That., NY MAg

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right about Amazon’s Corporate Welfare, National review

• Why Is It So Hard To Compost, And What Happened To The Brown Bin Program?, Brklynr

• Why Everyone's Obsessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Instagram Stories, Broadly

What I read today Nov 18

• New York State to Launch Medicaid Doula Pilot Expansion, USA Herald

• Why I Dread Returning to an American Public School, NY Times

What I read today Nov 16

• Handicrafts Made in Poland, Culture. PL

• The Biggest Lies We Teach American Kids About Thanksgiving and Native Americans, Mic

• National Day of Mourning Reflects on Thanksgiving’s Horrific, Bloody History, Boston Globe

• How To Talk To Kids About Thanksgiving, NPR

• Decolonizing Thanksgiving: A Toolkit for Combatting Racism in Schools, Medium

• When Families Un-Adopt a Child, The Atlantic

• America Is Blaming Pregnant Women for Their Own Deaths, NY Times
  I’m glad there is increased media attention on this issue but it doesn’t feel like anything is getting done.
  

What I read today Nov 15

• 'Farming While Black': A Guide To Finding Power And Dignity Through Food, NPR

• Old Roots, New Shoots: Immigrant Farmers Cultivate Ginger in a New Land, Edible Hudson Valley

• Growing your own ginger: easy as 1, 2, 3, . . . erm . . . 4, Vomiting Chicken

• Rue: The Forgotten Herb, The Heirloom Gardener

• It’s time to explore Ethiopian coffee, here’s why, SBS

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

• Excited for Amazon’s Arrival in Long Island City? The Results for New York’s Art Community Won’t Be Pretty, ArtNet

• 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 8

• Keystone XL Pipeline: US judge orders halt on construction, BBC

• Rediscovering Mecca Flats, a Legendary Chicago Apartment Building, Atlas Obscura

• US Supreme Court allows historic kids’ climate lawsuit to go forward, Nature

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

• NYC’s ballot measures all receive decisive approval, Curbed

• 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

• The Absolute Necessity of the New-Mom Friend, NY Times

• 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.