52 hurts.
Susie Cagle is a journalist & artist for Grist.
She has also written and drawn for the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Nation, the Boston Review, the American Prospect, the Awl, Truthout & many others.
Read her articles and follow her tweets on politics, policy, the environment, the economy, and Oakland, California, where she lives and documents the city's shootings with the team at Shine in Peace.
susie.cagle at gmail
interesting times.
She has also written and drawn for the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Nation, the Boston Review, the American Prospect, the Awl, Truthout & many others.
Read her articles and follow her tweets on politics, policy, the environment, the economy, and Oakland, California, where she lives and documents the city's shootings with the team at Shine in Peace.
susie.cagle at gmail
interesting times.
New Yorker Launches New Whistleblower Submission System, With Code Written by the Late Aaron Swartz
(via Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing : The New Yorker)
new mantra
Every school in Japan has a motto. This one cracks me up- so reserved. American schools would go for the superlatives twitter.com/LindseyChrist/…
— Lindsey Christ (@LindseyChrist) May 14, 2013
“I’m putting, like, a recycled aluminum-foil crown on her head. And that’s what I had to learn to do myself. No one taught me how to do that except my friends and, like, my dog and the birds and the clear water from the mountain. I spent a lot of my life being afraid of things that did and didn’t exist. I realized how foolish I was — now I’m not afraid.”
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But what do all of these things really say about who we are? There’s a danger in conflating work with self, even if work has consumed everything we do. In Sebastian Junger’s recent documentary on the late photographer and documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington, Which Way to the Front Line?, Junger chronicles Hetherington’s work in West Africa, Afghanistan, and Misrata, Libya, where he was eventually killed. Hetherington did extremely important work, and in his documentary, Diary, he explores the tension between his life at home and his life in the field. Just before he left for Libya, he expressed reservations about continuing to work in conflict zones. It had cannibalized other parts of his life. He wanted to pursue a long-term relationship with his girlfriend. He wanted a family. He wanted to explore doing different kinds of work. But he decided to go back into the field one last time and didn’t come back.
It would be disingenuous to argue that Hetherington’s work wasn’t part of who he was, but as Junger’s documentary so beautifully illustrates, it wasn’t all there was of Tim Hetherington.
”— Elizabeth Spiers at Medium
The Lunny family, which owns the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, has been fighting for years to stay put — the family’s appeal is due to be heard in court this week. But recently, this dispute has gotten caught up in national environmental battles, including the fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Members of Congress and national green groups have weighed in. And what ultimately amounts to just two square miles of “potential wilderness” have split the environmental movement right down the middle, locally and nationally.
The battle for this estuary has become far more than a fight about an oyster farm — it’s become a flashpoint in the debate over what we want out of the natural world, and what we can afford. At a time of both economic and ecological crisis, how much sense does it make to put a fence up around nature? How much sense does it make to let business interests capitalize off public lands? And who gets to decide?
The battle for Drakes Bay, me for Grist
Don’t tell us that it’s impossible and that there is no budget for glitter. Give us a wheel to reinvent. … We are more than the sum of our parts. We get presidents elected.
Wonderful manifesto for the creative class, a term coined by Richard Florida in his 2002 modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class.
Jesus this is gross.
I was the court illustrator for the legal-themed Oakland Nights… Live! last night, which got “a little city council” at a few points.
