'For most of my life I’ve felt that I could not in good faith perform the Pledge of Allegiance. I do put my hand over my heart with other intentions: first and foremost to notice or study the cadence of my heartbeat.' #longreads Wendy C. Ortiz Tasteful Rude tastefulrude.com/noncompliant-h…

Read Rebecca Schuman's full 2018 series, 'The ’90s Are Old,' here:

longreads.com/tag/the-90s-ar…

'Every Tibetan could qualify as an activist, because it’s a responsibility we feel when you have a culture at peril and you don’t have a country to call your own. We’re few in numbers, but we have a large voice.' #longreads @marchogan Pitchfork pitchfork.com/features/artic…

'The twins’ dream was to one day see a movie in a cinema. They never had, and probably never would. They also dreamed of seeing the world outside of Gaza City.

But they never had. And probably never would.' #longreads Paul Fischer Hidden Compass hiddencompass.net/story/gazawood…

'Abandoned to live alone in her mud hut, her behavior grew increasingly erratic and inexplicable. She no longer spoke sense. She hardly spoke at all. And no one spoke to her.' #longreads SKJ Traveler Narratively narratively.com/they-were-labe…

So I appreciate Maggie's @longreads piece on our culture's changing relationship with death, and an artist, Heide Hatry, who uses an unusual medium to create portraits of departed loved ones: longreads.com/2022/10/25/dea…

Mike Davis, a remarkable activist and author known for his omniscient LA nonfiction, died yesterday after a long battle with esophageal cancer.

Today, in his honor, we’re revisiting “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn” from his book Ecology of Fear: longreads.com/2018/12/04/the…

'From where I stand, each lifelike face looks as if it was created from charcoal, brought to life with pointillistic specks and dark strokes.

But Hatry doesn’t use charcoal. She depicts humans and animals using their ashes.' —@maggiedonahue1

READ: longreads.com/2022/10/25/dea…

Do yourself a favour and read this story by Maggie Donahue about death and art and how they overlap and have it change your mind about all of it! (A bonus of fact-checking is that I've had the pleasure to read it 1239875 times already!)

'This isn’t a story about gentrification – at least, not how we usually think about it. It’s a story of a Black woman losing her home to municipal greed, and a white woman benefitting from her loss.' #longreads Anne Elizabeth Moore BridgeDetroit bridgedetroit.com/i-was-given-a-…

Heide Hatry uses the ashes of the deceased to create memorial portraits, allowing bereaved families to keep loved ones close even after death.

In 'The Death Artist,' @maggiedonahue1 explores Hatry’s unusual background and her controversial, macabre art: longreads.com/2022/10/25/dea…

Great collection via Longreads 🎃: 'This Stuff is Alive’: A Global Folk Music Reading List', Yoik singing, throat singing, griot traditions — longreads.com/2022/10/18/thi…

'The tuna migrate across the vast blue world, and up above them the gamblers watch, keeping their stocks close and secret, and waiting for the end to come.' #longreads Granta granta.com/tuna/