Culture
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What is Freedom: Zoe Mendelson
Dear Yali Lou, The topic of self-seriousness has been on my mind. It’s a double-edged sword. A prison, a necessary tool, a tricky thing to know when to wield and when to avoid. Here I have gathered for you what…
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What is Freedom: Jason Reynolds
To be free, for me, is to no longer consider the consequences of my body and skin and hair and tongue, not because of a refusal to bend, not as an act of defiance and courage, but because it has…
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A Month Without a Map
We plant gardens on the banks of trenches, tending muddy flowerbeds we may never see blossom. We load our babies into the car to drop them off at daycare on our way to work in a beach town, and never…
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What Is Freedom: Joan As Police Woman
I am the dance floor.I am the mirrored face of the lake.I am the ragged end of the abandoned water pipeburied deep under the ocean where bacteria fuck and socialize.Water under water over water inside water outside water —aren’t we…
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What Is Freedom: Imani Perry
Freedom is as freedom does.It was not in 1776, when Benjamin Franklin still bought, sold and owned peopleAnd Madison, and Jefferson and Washington too-And somebody whose name I don’t know in MarylandOwned my mother mother mother mother mother Esther.I come…
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50 of the Best Book Covers of the Year (So Far)
Book covers undeniably serve a marketing function. They are a way of drawing potential readers in and, hopefully, conveying valuable information about the book.
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What Is Freedom: Lynne Tillman
Philosopher Isaiah Berlin drew a seminal distinction between negative liberty, freedom from interference, for instance, from the state, and positive liberty, freedom to self-master, or to live as you want. Berlin said both forms, freedom to and freedom from, are…
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What Is Freedom? Toshi Reagon
I came through into life through the pathways of this incredible planet. Planet Earth the third planet from the sun. The ocean world. The planet of abundance and life. I arrived through the portal of the people of grace. Singing…
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What Is Freedom: Toshi Reagon
I came through into life through the pathways of this incredible planet. Planet Earth the third planet from the sun. The ocean world. The planet of abundance and life. I arrived through the portal of the people of grace. Singing…
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Girl on Girl (Week One): On Seeing Each Other
When I can’t trust my own eyes, I borrow yours for a while.
