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America is lucky black people are really only fighting to be treated equally. Considering a black person is shot by police at an average of every 28 hours, we could be asking for more.
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Foreign Policy InterruptedFounded by Elmira Bayrasli and Lauren Bohn, Foreign Policy Interrupted amplifies female voices on current events around the globe, combatting the industry’s gender disparity through a visibility platform and fellowship program.
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“So, while the lobby of the cancer center is probably one of the most depressing places on the planet, it’s also one that gives me an odd sense of comfort.”
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The Brevity Podcast Episode #1
The Brevity Podcast is now on the air! The first episode features interviews and readings from bestselling author Dani Shapiro and Brevity author and Pushcart Prize nominee Thaddeus Gunn.
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PressThink“Having a space that’s mine on the web — pressthink.org — is for me indistinguishable from owning my own printing press and hosting my own discussion forum.” Jay Rosen’s redesigned space includes a “board” for slow blogging and constantly shifting thoughts.
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“Will we need certifications for neural networks as fit for driving a car or flying a plane? Will an algorithm have to get a driver’s license? Will we trust the creators of the algorithms to not game that testing system?”
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Bunny Eats Design
Genie, a freelance graphic designer from Auckland, New Zealand, is obsessed with food and bunnies and lives by the mantra “eat well, travel often.” Join her for stories, recipes, food photography, and Tofu — her adorable lop-eared rabbit.
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Full Grown People – The Other Awkward AgeEach Tuesday and Thursday, Full Grown People publishes well-told true stories of how different people have figured it out as they’re going along.
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Once upon a time, public profanity was a rarity, but that’s long behind us.
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THE FEM
THE FEM is a literary journal that publishes feminist, diverse, and inclusive creative works — from fiction and spoken word to interviews with writers, artists, and creators.
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The City Born Great
“The City Born Great” is a short story from Hugo Award winner N.K. Jemisin: “I live the city. It thrives and it is mine. I am its worthy avatar, and together? We will never be afraid again.”
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Flourish and Knot
Crafts, recipes, home improvement, decorating, sewing, gardening, floral arranging, entertaining: homemaking powerhouse Sarah helps you DIY it all.
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No Face
“I cannot mask, change, morph, or cloak my disease like a flaw in a painting. All I can do is give it a shape without a face.” How one fiction writer with depression turns his mental health challenges into monsters.
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minor literature[s]Literary journal minor literature[s] presents off-the-beaten-path poetry, essays, art, and reviews by emerging authors and creators.
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Like Uber, But for Dog Crap
“Oh, that Pooper were real! Imagine the Harvard-educated copywriters, holed up in a glass parapet somewhere in Palo Alto with a whiteboard and a dream. Imagine the mental gymnastics that this clutch of Ivy grads would have to perform in order to polish the turd-like idea of scooping shit for a living.”
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Why I Can Never Go Home Again
“I no longer fear returning to Lima with my head hung in shame over my failures. I fear returning to Lima because I can’t handle the shame of her failures.” Jeremy Huffer’s small town is not the American idyll of his memories.
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Back To Basics With Art and Illustration
“Once you let go of any judgement and faithfully transport what’s in your mind onto the page, that’s when you discover who you really are.” Writer and illustrator Millie Ho candidly describes her creative process.
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Trish Hopkinson
Trish Hopkinson may describe herself as a “selfish poet,” but her site is an indispensable community hub for poetry lovers, with news and event listings, writing resources, and much more (including her own poems, of course).
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“Not all of what I write makes sense to me. It never will. And that’s fine. In fact, that’s kind of the point. If I could explain it readily in a Power Point, there’d be no reason to write a story. It’s hard work, these acts of creation, of willing nothing into being.”
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The tighter you clamp your heart shut, the more you are constricting blood flow to your brain. Emotion has to go through your heart to get to your mind. Insight requires migration through your mind and back down to your heart.
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Make Crappy Drawings
Michael Babwahsingh embraces crappy drawings: “And if you’re afraid your drawings don’t look like the stuff you see online or in fancy books or that people will make fun if they see them, who cares? All that matters is that your drawings make sense to you….”
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Rationalising the Universe
Mekhi and Joseph lower the barrier to entry of science with in-depth but accessible explorations of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and the philosophy of science.
