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Leprosy Coins and the Legacy of Stigma
The coins are a lasting symbol of how a fearful society stripped away the humanity and agency of people affected by the disease.
Life Inside Louisiana's Last Leprosy Colony
Carville was often witness to agony, but it was also a place where life continued to unfold anyway: a functioning civilization in miniature.
Pay to Slay: The Language of MLM
No longer is the promise simply extra income: In its place is a rhetoric that reads like a patois of pseudo-empowering marketplace feminism with a tinge of gig economy side hustle-speak.
Profile: Neil Summerour
This type designer and letterer makes words luscious, curvaceous and anything but ordinary.
Possums are the Mutant Beauty Queens of Instagram
This morning, New Orleans–based artist and business owner Ally Burguieres woke up with an opossum next to her in bed.
Revisiting "Gossip Girl," 15 Years Later
For someone growing up in a small-ish Southern town where wealth was displayed via head-to-toe Lilly Pulitzer, this book represented a portal to a whole new world.
A Doctor Cuts Into His Own Brain To Look At Language
In 2014, Kennedy had the top of his skull sawed off, and tiny electrodes implanted inside his brain, in order to understand it better.
Five Reasons to Love East Atlanta Village
The “village” part of this neighborhood’s moniker (aka EAV) isn’t just a cutesy realtor-invented label.
Catching Up With Augusten Burroughs
“I love preservation. Writing is the preservation of a memory.”