Category Archive for:

Gender


A rural scene featuring a handmade sign that says "Meat Shoot" with the list of dates in January, February, March and April

What Gets Passed Down

Seth R. Merritt

|

This piece tells a story of rural Southern Missouri through the forms of knowledge inherited when the state offers nothing: no direction, no infrastructure, no recognition. The author is from Douglas County, where his family still hunts and welds and buries its dead. Electricity came late. Broadband still hasnโ€™t come at all. Seth comes from the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, a tribe erased not just by settler removal but by federal recognition itself.

Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City

Jesse Bernstein

|

One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examinerโ€™s office after I heard Kathy had died.* My cubicle was in a cellar with an open floor plan, shared with other cubicles, and ...

CATEGORY:

Unsafe At Home: Domestic Violence Amid Covid-19

Zhandarka Kurti

|

One of the dark consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown that has not received the attention it deserves is the rise in domestic violence cases with uneven trends at the local, state and national ...

CATEGORY: