What I read today March 28

• A Public Defender Is Running to Be Queens’ Next DA—On a Platform of Locking Up Fewer People, Mother Jones

What I read today march 27

• Study: Racial Segregation an Issue in Neonatal Intensive Care, MedPage Today

• Brooklyn Wins Bragging Rights to the World’s Tallest Politician, NY Times

• Street Art Used To Be the Voice of the People. Now It’s the Voice of Advertisers., In These Times

• City Councilmembers Propose $100,000 Fine For 'Hideous' LED Billboard Boats, Gothamist

• Tax Policy Should be Part of Our Basic Civic Education, hyperallergic

• How many people pay the estate tax?, Tax Policy Center

• More Americans favor raising than lowering tax rates on corporations, high household incomes, Pew Research Center

• Documenting the Horrors of America’s Opioid Crisis in One of the Hardest-Hit Cities, hyperallergic

• In Centering West Africa, an Exhibition Tells Another Story of the Medieval Period, hyperallergic

• Layering Vintage Slides to Create Strange New Narratives, hyperallergic

• Found: A Medical Manual Linking Medieval Ireland to the Islamic World, Atlas Obscura

• Pete Buttigieg’s Quiet Rebellion, The New Yorker

What I read today march 26

• The New Abortion Underground Starts With Information, Glamour

What I read today March 20

• FDA approves first postpartum depression drug, CNN

• Inside the Fight for Developmentally Disabled People's Right to Sex, Broadly

• Angela Davis Addresses the Whitewashing of Feminism and Islamophobia, Broadly

• Childbirth Is the Ultimate Taboo in Contemporary Art, Elephant
  ”how many stories there are still to be told about this life-changing moment .”

What I read today march 19

• Forget 'machine for living in' – Hudson Yards is a machine for investing in, The Guardian

• Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots, NY Times

• Labor divide deepens in ongoing battle with real estate at Hudson Yards, Politico

• Hudson Yards deal ends nastiest fight in NYC real estate, Crain’s

• A Wave Of New Bills Would Ban Abortion Before Most Women Even Know They're Pregnant, Refinery 29

• Welcome to Birdpunk: A Subculture of a Subculture, Audubon

• It’s science: Your toddler’s dinosaur obsession is making them smarter, Motherly

• New Law Recognizes Racial Bias When Identifying Witnesses, Bklynr

• As pied-à-terre tax gains steam, NYC real estate industry pushes back, Curbed

• Photos: Inside Vessel, Thomas Heatherwick’s Hudson Yards sculpture, Curbed

• Visiting Hudson Yards , Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York

• Snark Park: Interactive art 'theme park' opens in New York, CNN

• At Hudson Yards, the future isn’t now, Curbed

• Hudson Yards opening: Timeline of the megaproject’s major moments, Curbed

What I read today march 18

• The Battle for the One, True ‘Fire Cider’, NY Times

• The Song of Abby the Spoon Lady, The Washington Post
  Me and the little guy have been dancing around the house today practicing the spoons (albeit poorly)

What I read today March 14

• How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger, NPR

• FEARING FOR HIS LIFE , The Verge

• How bicycles ignited 200 years of controversy in New York City, Curbed
  

What I read today March 13

• Cleanup Of Red Hook Ball Fields Begins, BKLYNR

• Cleanup of Columbia Smelting & Refining Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, EPA

• Snow White Is Real (and She’s a Chinese Vlogger), Messy Nessy Chic

What I read today march 12

• Hospital and Time of Delivery May Affect Mother’s Health, NY Times

• Stop Telling Me Black Women Die During Childbirth And Start Showing Me How We Can Thrive, Blavity

• California's Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act aims to lower maternal deaths—especially for black women, Motherly

• Why is my toddler suddenly a picky eater?, Motherly

• Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department, ABC News

• How the US has hidden its empire, The Guardian

• Face value, Vox

• Poll: How does the public think journalism happens?, Columbia Journalism Review

• How to Raise a Child Without Imposing Gender, NY Times

• Not ‘My Grandfather’s Boy Scout Troop’: It’s Now for Girls, Too, NY Times

• Death by Civilization, The Atlantic

What I read today March 11

• NETTLE CAKE: AN ODE TO MOSS GAZING, The Wondersmith
  unbelievably beautiful

• There Is a Hidden Epidemic of Doctors Abusing Women in Labor, Doulas Say, Broadly

• White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It's not, The Guardian

What I read today March 9

• Dear Ann Coulter: Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either, Informed Consent

• A Dispatch From the Anti-Amazon Victory Party, The Atlantic

• Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same, Bloomberg Businessweek

What I read today March 8

• Stevie Nicks has thousands of shawls, keeps them in a temperature-controlled vault, AV Club
  SHAWL VAULT

• I’m an OB/GYN and infanticide is not part of abortion care. Here’s why., Dr. Jen Gunter
  SO GOOD

• How to respond to a question about “late-term abortion,” a procedure that doesn’t exist, Dr. Jen Gunter

• MTA must add elevators when renovating stations, rules federal judge, Curbed

• Russ & Daughters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, kelli anderson

What I read today march 7

• A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians, Vox

• WHAT IS A GENTLE C-SECTION? ALL ABOUT THE NEW “FAMILY-CENTERED” APPROACH, Mother Mag

• This viral video shows the anatomy of a C-section in such an approachable way, Motherly

What I read today March 6

• Midwives and doulas aren’t a luxury. They’re a necessity., The Lilly

What I read today March 5

• A Large Study Provides More Evidence That MMR Vaccines Don't Cause Autism, NPR

• Every Black Woman Deserves a Doula, NY Mag

• Hospital and Time of Delivery May Affect Mother’s Health, NY Times

What I read today March 4

• Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy, Business Insider

• Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money, NPR

• Otto Warmbier’s Parents Blame Kim for His Death, Defying Trump, National Review

• Read: Michael Cohen's opening statement to Congress, CNN

• HOW TO HAVE A “FEMINIST PREGNANCY”, Mother Mag

• The More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am, The Stranger

• The Dark Reality of Being a Brand Influencer, Broadly

• The rise of the nano-influencer: how brands are turning to common people, The Guardian

What I read today March 2-3

• Dr. Seuss Books Can Be Racist, But Students Keep Reading Them, NPR

• I Didn’t Kill My Baby, NY Times

• CBD Is Everywhere, but Scientists Still Don’t Know Much About It, NY Times

What I read today March 1

• The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy, NY Times

• WATCH: These Doulas Are Delivering Support For Black Mothers | HuffPost

• New Survey Shows Americans Reject Democratic Radicalism on Abortion, The National Review

• Not ‘All Americans’ Are ‘Proud That We Have More Women in the Work Force Than Ever Before’, National Review

• Abortion Extremism Comes to Rhode Island, National Review

• Carrie Ann Lucas, Disability Rights Activist and Attorney, Dies Following Denial From Insurance Company, Rewire news

• Congress Is Complicit in Trump’s Power Grab, The national Review

• Reparations for Slavery: Just More Symbolism over Substance, National Review

What I read today Feb 28

• WATCH: Care of a Woman with an Epidural - 5 Rules for Good Support
  1. keep them moving - from side to side, kneeling over a birth ball
  2. keep them cool - turn on fan, mop brow, ice back - keep parts cool that aren’t numb
  3. keep them company - even if asleep, don’t leave
  4. keep them from pushing too early - wait until feels something, called “laboring down”
  5. skin to skin after birth

• WATCH: Scene From Penny Simkin's Comfort Measures - "The 3 Rs" & Slow Breathing
  3 characteristics in those who cope well: Relaxation: at least between contractions if not during Rhythm: breathing, moaning, swaying, stroking Ritual: repetition of same 1 activity 1 contraction to the other Slow Breathing: take long breath and hold it.
  
  Out breath is your relaxing breath. Release tension on every out breath. Sighing way through contraction – sigh of relief. Partner can count breaths for a minute (avg contraction; those in early labor will be shorter, those in late labor longer) to see how many breaths take when nice and relaxed. 9 breaths – half of avg breathing rate. Partner can mention to relax shoulders, jaw, forehead etc. Start using breathing when you can’t talk through contraction – when labor stops you in your tracks.

• Planned Parenthood to Lose Millions in Funding Under New Federal 'Gag Rule', Colorlines

• Trump Administration Blocks Funds for Planned Parenthood and Others Over Abortion Referrals, NY Times

• Illinois to Pass Laws to Give Women Better Access to Abortions, Colorlines

• She Was a Bag Lady to Most, until She Became the City’s Most Collected Artist, Messy nessy Chic

• Will Christians Get Over Their Opposition to Universal Child Care?, Sojourners

• The Biblical Values of Ocasio-Cortez's Democratic Socialism, Sojourners

• Finding Community During Pregnancy As A Black Non-Binary Femme, The Establishment

• 1,300 works of art create apartment masterpiece, University of Chicago News

• The Crime of Parenting While Poor, The New Republic

• The Democrats Stole the Green Party’s Best Idea, The New Republic

• “FAST FASHION” FURNITURE HAS GIVEN US A WORLD OF CRAPPY COUCHES , The Outline

• By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves, Yes! Magazine

• The Dangerous Rise of the IUD as Poverty Cure, NY Times

• 2,000-year-old tattoo needle identified by archaeologists, Nat Geo

What I read today Feb 27

• ‘Executing Babies’: Here Are the Facts Behind Trump’s Misleading Abortion Tweet, NY Times

• Nine Takeaways from the Special Election for Public Advocate, City Limits