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AddThe Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne
It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…
On problematic feminists and what queer people are allowed to read.
S2 E8 Free Solo and More - Alex Honnold on Life and El Capitan
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes
S3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
<strong>Editorial:</strong> Families are struggling to survive amid the devastation. Israel’s ban on international NGOs will worsen this disaster
The ‘Scandinavian sleep method’ is having a moment on social media. But what is it? And will it stop you fighting over the doona?
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