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 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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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