1. Using Sound to Explore One of Syria’s Most Notorious Prisons
“The user is immersed in both an auditory and visual experience narrated by the detainees. As you explore the different locations you can hear water dripping through the pipes, the faint sound of birds or the footsteps of approaching guards.”
2. Social Media Got You Down? Be More Like Beyonce.
I mean … isn’t that always the answer to the question? But really, a very important read for the swipe generation.
3. Hip Hop and Liberation of Women in Kabul
How some women are defying deprecated Taliban mores and making their voices heard.
4. The EPA Is Failing Communities of Color, According to New Report
The scathing report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says “EPA does not take action when faced with environmental justice concerns until forced to do so."
5. How Pop Culture Tells Women to Shut Up
“’Patriarchy,’ for all its blunt ubiquity as a term, still retains an element of magic: At once everywhere and nowhere, it describes not just a pervasive cultural infrastructure, but also something that many people simply do not—will not—believe in. It’s a myth of the angry feminists. A hobby-horse of the social justice warriors. A scapegoat. A lie. It deserves either widened eyes or rolled ones—and which one will depend entirely on one’s perspective.”
6. Why Have Texas Prisons Banned Thousands of Books?
Banned: The Color Purple. Not banned: Mein Kampf.
7. A Decade After Amish School Shooting, Gunman’s Mother Talks of Forgiveness
“None of us would have ever chosen this. But the relationships that we have built through it, you can't put a price on that."
8. Pretty Much Everyone Thinks Contraception Use Is Fine, Survey Confirms
Only 4 percent of Americans surveyed said the use of contraception was morally wrong — even when factoring in Catholics.
9. Coming Out to Your Dad, the Preacher
“It was that simple to him: instinctive, resolute, unconditional.”
10. A Visual and Lyrical Ode to New York City Nights
Take a trip to the city that never sleeps through this lovely write-up.
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