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Alison Iven 5/20/19 Alison Iven 5/20/19

What I read today May 17

  • WHY ARE MEN SCARED OF VASECTOMIES?, Mother Mag

  • Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness, NY Times

  • America’s baby bust continued in 2018 with record-low birth rates, CDC says, LA Times

  • Why American Moms Can’t Get Enough Expert Parenting Advice, The Atlantic

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What I read today May 16

  • Anti-abortion Rep. Tim Murphy resigns after report he asked lover to end pregnancy, ABC News

  • A sponsor of an Ohio abortion bill says you can reimplant ectopic pregnancies. You can’t., Columbus Dispatch

  • The Real Origins of the Religious Right, Politico

  • Why I Bought A House In Detroit For $500, Buzzfeed

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What I read today May 14

  • Community Outraged After Police Shoot 3 Children in the Head, Ebony

  • Welcome to NYT Parenting. Here’s Why We Won’t Say ‘Natural Birth.’, NY Times

  • 'Arthur' character Mr. Ratburn came out as gay and got married in the season premiere and Twitter loved it, CNN

  • After A D.C. Author Snitched On A Metro Employee For Eating On The Train, Her Publisher Is Canceling Her Book, DCist

  • “A Marriage Agreement”— 1970, Lilith

  • Original Catfluencer: How a Victorian Artist's Feline Fixation Gave Us the Internet Cat, Collectors Weekly

  • The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids, The Atlantic

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What I read today May 13

  • The Impact Of Activism On Mental Health Can Be Devastating, But Here’s How Experts Say We Can Close The Gap, Bustle

  • Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind, NY Times

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what I read today May 10

  • 26 phrases to calm your angry child, Mother Mag

  • Opinion: Elizabeth Street Garden Fans Must Acknowledge the Housing Crisis, City Limits

  • Get a sneak peek inside the revamped TWA Terminal, Curbed

  • America’s Train Fans Are Having One of the Best Weeks of Their Lives, Atlas Obscura
    Arthur is REALLY into trains and we regularly watch steam engines on youtube. This week, there has been a plethora of videos in Wyoming with this train and I couldn’t figure out WHY so many people were lined up by the tracks!

  • Exit Interview: I Was the Director of Research and Development at a Candy Company, Atlas Obscura

  • Why It’s So Hard to Study the Toxic Dust Blowing From Earth’s Youngest Desert, Atlas Obscura
    We are killing our planet

  • Arizona’s Most Unusual Cacti Have Their Own Fan Club, Atlas Obscura

  • For Seed Rebels, Saving Life’s Building Blocks Has New Urgency, Civil Eats

  • The Story Behind America’s Most Famous Sex Therapist, Hyperallergic

  • A Forgotten Precursor of Genderqueer Performance Art, Hyperallergic

  • WATCH: In the Face of the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis, This Doula Is Providing Expectant Mothers With the Support and Care They Desperately Deserve, The Root

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Alison Iven 5/10/19 Alison Iven 5/10/19

What I read today may 9

  • Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Receive Life in Prison., The Slate

  • Reflecting on Rachel: Why She Mattered, Christianity Today

  • I'm a pro-life Christian. Here's why I'm voting for Hillary Clinton., Vox

  • The Terrifying Rise of the 6-Week Abortion Ban, The Cut

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What I read today May 8

  • AirPods Are a Tragedy, Vice

  • Law & Order’s New York was never real, Curbed

  • The skinniest building in Midtown Manhattan, ephemeral new york

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What I read today May 7

  • Toledo, Ohio, Just Granted Lake Erie the Same Legal Rights as People, Smithsonian Mag

  • A Deep Dive Into Black Culture and Camp, Teen Vogue

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What I read today May 3

  • Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed, The Guardian

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What I read today May 1

  • Long sealed away in a Whitney Bank attic, a trove of antique documents uncovered, Nola.com

  • Did a censored female writer inspire Hemingway’s famous style?, Salon

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What I read today April 26

  • Brookland hit with eviction notice at its office, suits over unpaid construction work, The Real Deal

  • Kansas Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Protects Right To Abortion, NPR

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What I read today April 24

  • Why We Created a Gender-Inclusive Stock Photo Library, Broadly

  • I'm Changing the Largely Male, Straight Tattoo Industry with a Simple List, Broadly

  • Nipsey Hussle's Memorial Was a Celebration of African Spirituality, Broadly

  • Pete Buttigieg Says Incarcerated People Shouldn't Get to Vote, GQ

  • When the Old Penn Station Was Demolished, New York Lost Its Faith, NY Times

  • The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret, NY Times

  • How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million, NY Times

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What I read today April 15

  • Online Momming in the ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ Age, The Cut

  • Timeouts for Everyone, NY Times

  • Friends Back Home Judge Me for Not Spanking My Kids, NY Times

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What I read today April 12

  • Historic Photos Of NYC's Urban Park Rangers As The Program Turns 40, Gothamist

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What I read today April 10

  • Yes, Trans Women Can Breastfeed — Here's How, Them

  • California Hospital Secretly Filmed Women During Surgery and Childbirth, Lawsuit Says, NY Times

  • How Her 3-Year-Old Daughter's Death Convinced Barbara Bush to Be Pro-Choice: 'The Toughest Issue for Me’, People

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What I read today April 8

  • From Disco to Techno, He’s Seen It on Sugar Hill’s Dance Floor, NY Times

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What I read today April 5

  • The Promise and Perils of Resurrecting Native Americans’ Lost Crops, Atlas Obscura

  • Nipsey Hussle’s brother found him dying. These are his final moments, LA Times

  • California Love with Nipsey Hussle and Lauren London, GQ

  • For Nipsey Hussle and Rap’s Thriving Middle Class, Staying Close to Home Can Have a Price, NY Times

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What I read today April 1

  • Court Rules Against City, Millions of Dollars Of Wealth Restored, Kings County Politics

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What I read today March 29

  • GOP lawmakers offer paid parental leave legislation linked to Social Security, The Hill

  • ADVANCING BIRTH JUSTICE: Community-Based Doula Models as a Standard of Care for Ending Racial Disparities (PDF)

  • The Almost Forgotten Story Of The 1970s East Village Windmill, Gothamist

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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

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