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Roxane Gay, the Climate Change Conference, and more things to do in Chicago this week
The science behind Sharknado, Chicago’s Creative Identity with Joi Ito, and more happenings from March 13-16
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Chicago activists explain why black space matters
By shunning interviews and barring nonblack people from public demonstrations, Black Lives Matter activists hope to shut down the spectacle of black death.
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Who is a journalist, anyway? Mizzou raises the question.
Anyone can claim to be a journalist. But that’s OK.
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Chewing the fat with Roxane Gay about ‘trauma and obesity’
In her forthcoming memoir Hunger, about “what it’s like to live in this world with morbid obesity,” the prolific author looks closely at the woman in the mirror.
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Gloria Steinem talks to Roxane Gay about her new memoir, My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem never stops moving. Over the course of her decades-long career, the mother of second-wave feminism and Ms. Magazine cofounder has advocated for women’s rights around the world, whether by posing as a Playboy bunny in Hugh Hefner’s New York club or protecting prostitutes in India. She also put in time on Adlai Stevenson’s […]
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Chicago Humanities Fest 2015 lineup includes Elvis Costello, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Salman Rushdie
We’re already looking into cloning technology so we can see everything.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 8/27: Roxane Gay, Veggie Bingo, and T-Pain
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Wednesday, August 27
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 3/17: Chicago Story Week, Indian, and Porn and Chicken
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, March 17
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Culture Vultures: Writer Austin Gilkeson recommends Roxane Gay’s Ayiti
Chicagoans recommend Roxane Gay’s Ayiti, comics confab Brain Frame, and T-shirts from Skim Milk.