not much reading this month. been going out more often, and have been much more tired from work.
reminiscence (2021), the emoji story (2020), this changes everything (2018), worth (2020)
Vox - The Death of the Job
NYT - Does Free College Work?
Taste - Strawberry and Kiwi: Why?
Buzzfeed - Why Am I Sp Bad At Typign?
The Atlantic - Colleges Have a Guy Problem
GQ - The Marathon Men Who Can't Go Home
GQ - The Best Things About the Worst Year Ever
Taste - Food Brands Fight the Background Check
Slate - “Men’s Rights Asians” Think This Is Their Moment
Vogue - What 6 Weeks Pregnant Looked and Felt Like to 6 Women
The Smithsonian - How Do Astronauts Spend Their Weekends in Space?
ABC News - North Korea holds 1st military parade since Biden took office
NPR - What I Learned From Watching Every Sport At The Tokyo Olympics
Inverse - How Marvel's Shang-Chi had to "Destroy" It's Own Racist Origins
Atlas Obscura - The Blacksmith Turning Decades of Chinese Bombs Into Kitchen Tools
Quartz - The racial dynamics between American women are flipped in a disorienting photo series
Refinery29 - A Japanese Man Was Hollywood’s First Sex Symbol So Stop Emasculating Our Asian Leading Men
Teen Vogue - Police Are Dying of COVID While Police Unions Fight Vaccines
"In 2020, COVID-19 was the highest cause of death for police officers on the job"
The Counter did a 3 part series on the prison / food industry complex. it's worth a read
The Counter - How corporations buy—and sell—food made with prison labor
"Across the country, at least 650 correctional institutions have some sort of food processing, landscaping, or farming operation..."
"States are allowed to garnish up to 80 percent for room and board, taxes, and other expenses. Again, Rice said, the concern about wages was not so much about the rights of incarcerated workers—rather, lawmakers wanted to ensure prison labor did not undercut the free market."
"For long hours in the hot sun, they earn as little as 4 cents per hour."
The Counter - This under-the-radar supply chain routes food from prisons to hospitals, food banks, and even schools
"PIECP rules allow corrections departments to withhold up to 80 percent of workers’ wages."
"The idea that the person who’s incarcerated should be paying for their own incarceration runs completely contrary to our knowledge of the prison system as a publicly funded and equally funded agency, right?"
The Counter - “Essential” and exploitable: Prison factories stayed open during the pandemic. People got sick.
"researchers have identified at least 650 U.S. correctional institutions that have some sort of food processing, landscaping, or farming operation. About half of states run some sort of farm or animal agriculture operation. People employed in state prisons earn anywhere from nothing to $5.15 per hour, averaging $0.14 to $1.14, according to a 2017 study by the Prison Policy Initiative. In federal institutions and many states, incarcerated people cannot refuse to work."
“I think one of the most obvious injustices in our prison system is that you have people who are working certain jobs, and then they come out of the prison system and they can’t get those same jobs on the outside.”
