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Old Friends

Everyone Needs an Intergenerational Friendship

There’s something magical about the comfort and interconnectedness that comes with befriending someone a few decades older.

by Erin Zimmer Strenio

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Old Friends

Friends from Far Afield

by Francisco Attié

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Old Friends

Befriending My Reflection

by Allison Baker

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Old Friends

Friendship as a Second Language

by Ruxandra Guidi

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Let Men Eat Cake (and Women Eat Ramen)

by Kiera Wright-Ruiz

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Old Friends

The Cycle of Mothering

by Delilah Saul

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Old Friends

Emergency Contact

by Ana María Betancourt Ovalle

An illustration in colored pencil showing photos taped to a wall. The background photos are muted, but the center photo is in vivid color, showing three children of different ages sitting on top of a white car. One is a young girl wearing a blue shirt and pink socks, and next to her is a boy with a backwards green cap with his arm around her. On the hood of the car, a girl with blonde hair in a pink shirt and green shorts holds a black cat.
Old Friends

First Friends, Once Removed

by Diana Ruzova

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Old Friends

Ghost Story

by Jehanne Dubrow

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Book of the Month: “How to Close a Camp” by John Washington

by Ruxandra Guidi

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“You all owe somebody with a womb. The very least you could do is make sure that when they hit menopause, their life doesn’t suck.”

 – Dr. Sophia Yen

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Democracy

The Soil Beneath Democracy

by Lorelei Kelly

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Community

Helpers On the Ground

by The Conversationalist Team

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Community

Welcome to the Whistle Rebellion

by s.e. smith

American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 - 1992) (center left, in dark outfit and black hair), along with unidentified others, on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March (later the LGBT Pride March), New York, New York, June 27, 1982. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)
History

How To Quit Doomscrolling When the World Is on Fire

by Emily Chudy

War

“All the Horrors Imaginable”

by Sara Cincurova

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Books

What We’re Reading This Summer

by The Conversationalist Team

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Art

Where Nigeria’s Potential Meets Its Reality

by Kovie Biakolo

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Community

Breaking the Cycle

by Victoria Law

During a street rehearsal by the Unidos da Tijuca samba school, and under heavy rain, the opening performance group performs one of its choreographies from the storyline honoring writer Carolina Maria de Jesus near Favela do Borel, in the Tijuca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Community

A History Lesson Through Samba

by Nicole Froio

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Art

“The Collector, the Tax Attorney, His Wife & Her Art Advisor”

by Cara Marsh Sheffler

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