cultural criticism

Housing Haunts Me (The Flytrap)

Doing It For Themselves (The Verge)

The Joy That Can Still Be Found in Peaches (The Guardian)

Does It Really Matter if ASMR is a Sex Thing? (The Flytrap)

Mane Character: How the Unicorn Became Everything to Everyone (Bitch Magazine)

Free Your Mind(set) (Yes! Magazine)

The Trans Women Turning to Firearms for Survival (Pacific Standard)

The House Lights Will Go Down Again (Pipe Wrench)

My Absolute Misogyny (Bitch Magazine)

Cake Is Never Just Cake (Bitch Magazine)

technology and culture

My War on Animation (The Verge)

What Happens When the Internet Disappears? (The Verge)

Reply Guys, Sliding Into the DMs, and the Intensification of Parasocial Relationships (Bitch Magazine)

How the Digital Economy is Holding Women Back (The Daily Dot)

Automating Ableism (The Verge)

animal welfare

California’s Animal Shelters are Overwhelmed. Pets — and Staff — Are At a Breaking Point (The Guardian)

Renters With Pets Organize After Climate Disasters (Yes! Magazine)

No, People Aren’t Giving Up Pandemic Pets Because They’re Bored (The Washington Post)

California Proposes a More Humane Future for Shelter Animals (Yes! Magazine)

disability

Disabling Utopia to Save It (The Nation)

Automating Ableism (The Verge)

The United States of Eugenics (The Conversationalist)

The Future of Design is Designing for Accessibility (The Nation)

Disabled Californians Challenge Absentee Voting Rules That Would Deny Them a Secret Ballot (Bolts)

Banana Slicers and Pre-Peeled Oranges: “Useless” Products Can Help People With Disabilities (The Goods)

When Medicalization Becomes a Tool for Dehumanization (The Conversationalist)

Maine Referendum Spotlights Voting Rights for People Under Guardianship (Bolts)

Disabled and Disobedient: How ADAPT Activists Blocked the GOP Healthcare Bill (In These Times)

What Happens to Survivors of Mass Shootings Like Las Vegas? (Rolling Stone)

For Mentally Ill Too Often Prison Means Solitary, Neglect, and Even Death (The Guardian)

How Food Inflation Adds to the Debt Disabled People Carry (Civil Eats)

“Depression Cooking Zine” Is a Reminder That Sometimes Eating Is An Accomplishment (Eater)

To Fix America’s Broken Health Care System, We Need to Rethink Who Counts As An Expert (TIME)

Are People With Feeding Tubes Left on Their Own When Disaster Strikes? (Civil Eats)

Disabled Americans Have the Most to Fear Under Republicare (Esquire)

death and dying

#DeathTok is Actually Full of Life (The Flytrap)

Taxidermy, Skull Preservation, Maceration: Pet Owners Find New Ways to Process Grief (The Guardian)

How Crowdfunding Became the New American Way of Death (The Guardian)

In a Time of Mass Mourning, Grief Stories Are a Lifeline (Catapult)

Good Grief: Why Does Mourning Have an Expiration Date? (Bitch Magazine)

How Much is Too Much to Save a Dying Cat? (Longreads)

Let’s Mail Our Remains to Paul Ryan When Trumpcare Kills Us (VICE)

Disabled Activists Should Not Have to Die to Have Our Voices Heard (Motherboard)

Buried Deep: Antichoice Legislation and Funeral Poverty (Bitch Magazine)

The Small Beauty of Funeral Sex (Catapult)

labor

When Gig Workers Inadvertently Become Care Workers (The Conversationalist)

Disabled Union Members Are Strengthening the Labor Movement (The Nation)

Silicon Valley’s Labor Uprising (In These Times)

Reworking Remote (Yes! Magazine)

Hazard Hotels: What’s Lurking in Your Guest Room? (Al Jazeera America)

Low Wages are Driving a Shortage of Care Providers. Now Elders and Disabled People Face a Crisis. (In These Times)