Culture
Drop the Fry: Judging Elizabeth Holmes’s Voice Comes down to Bias
Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google Assistant have one thing in common: They all have female-identified voices and names.
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All Land is Sacred: Jolie Varela on the Healing Power of Hiking
The Indigenous Women Hike is her “sacred fire.”
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Just Look Up: Are BIPOC Birding Communities Gaining Momentum?
From books to social media to IRL meetups, and now TV, BIPOC birders are using varied mediums to get their communities outside.
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Sailing Old Seas: The Seafarers Yacht Club Has a Legacy as Old as the Ocean
Though boating seems to be a luxurious activity reserved solely for the rich, famous, and otherwise wealthy, there’s one group that has long fought this misunderstanding, specifically for Black people.
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“Unpregnant” Offers a Radical Normalization of Abortion and Reproductive Health
Even in a time where reproductive choice is in terrifying peril, it’s still possible to feel empowered in our choices—including the choice to laugh.
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New Canon: A Roundtable about Travel Writing without the Other
Literature about traveling and adventure has a long history of evoking an Orientalist imaginary of Asia as perpetually exotic and dominable.
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Running Forward: The Feminist Underbelly of the Dogsledding World
Regardless of gender, we all look the same in heavy parkas and down jackets.
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Climbing Everest Isn’t a Bucket List Dream—It’s a Crisis of Overtourism
How much more life, both human and environmental, must be sacrificed to satiate the Western adventurer’s unending thirst to check another box on a bucket list?
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Meet the People Paving New Paths in the Outdoors
People from marginalized communities are becoming the new faces of the outdoors.
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Cord Jefferson Finds a (Good) Place for Pop Culture Optimism
In 2016, Michael Schur’s The Good Place started as another quirky NBC comedy that then blossomed into a bona fide cultural phenomenon.
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