The Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex
Minda Honey | Longreads | June 2018 | 11 minutes (2,763 words) In December, when a creative agency asked me to participate in a regional Volunteers of America public service announcement encouraging...
View Article“This Halloween is Something to Be Sure”: An Examination of Lou Reed’s New York
New York is an outlier in Lou Reed’s discography. The 1989 album—his fifteenth—is arguably his most straight-forward, track after track of stunningly simple music, just featuring a few guitars and...
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Two Clocks, Running Down
Colin Dickey | Longreads | June 2019 | 13 minutes (3,573 words) I remember my first encounter with the work of Félix González-Torres, even though most of the details are fuzzy. I don’t remember which...
View ArticleWoodstock: My Queer Love Story
Kate Walter | Longreads | Month 2019 | 7 minutes (1800 words) “Want to go to Woodstock with me?” my boyfriend Joe asked. “Yes!” I screamed at his offer. I was a 20-year-old student at a conservative...
View ArticleAll Mom’s Friends
Svetlana Kitto | Longreads | February 2020 | 6 minutes (1,503 words) Writing the Mother Wound, a series co-published with Writing our Lives and Longreads, examines the complexities of mother love. * *...
View ArticlePalliative Brownies
In this stunning excerpt from her new book “Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco,” published at Guernica, Alia Volz remembers her parents’ underground marijuana brownie...
View ArticleFrom One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS and Childlessness
In this personal essay, S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully. Read The Story
View ArticleThe Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex
In the third installment of Minda Honey’s #Dating_While_Woke series, an invitation to appear in a PSA prompts her to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past. Read The Story
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Paging Dr. House: A Medical Mysteries Reading List
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Once upon a time, I wanted to be a doctor. Never mind my terrible grades in all things science. Never mind...
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