#Longreads.com

[t0rschlusspan1k]

“I don't know what's going to come out of me. It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.' 'Why?' 'To make up for it. To make up for the fact that it's me.”

― Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly, Bitter, and True (2018)

[hackernewsrobot]

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn (2018)

https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/

[anniekoh]

elsewhere on the internet: on language

Writing About Slavery? Teaching About Slavery?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4TEdDgYslX-hlKezLodMIM71My3KTN0zxRv0IQTOQs/mobilebasic

Enslaved (Africans, people, mothers, workers, artisans, children, etc).

Using enslaved (as an adjective) rather than “slave” (as a noun) disaggregates the condition of being enslaved with the status of “being” a slave. People weren’t slaves; they were enslaved.

Enslaver (rather than many of the terms below).

The term “master” transmits the aspirations and values of the enslaving class without naming the practices they engaged.

Principles to Consider:

Avoid using “runaway slave.” Alternatives: “fugitives from slavery” or “self-liberated” or “self-emancipated” individuals.

P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al. “Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help” community-sourced document, Date, Time, URL.

@profgabriellemonae

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https://longreads.com/2019/08/05/towards-chinatown/

Towards Chinatown

Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.

(Aug 2019, Longreads)

Sometimes when I don’t know a word in Cantonese, I will say it in English but dress it with a Cantonese accent. I do this a lot in stores and restaurants to convey, I’m Cantonese too. Many times, wait staff seem unmoved. When they bring me the bill at the end of the meal, it is accompanied by fortune cookies wrapped in plastic, not the plate of orange slices my parents or other native speakers would receive. When this happens, I feel ashamed.

But the auntie here keeps speaking to me in Cantonese, and I feel like I belong. Eventually, she finds my record and takes my photo for the ID.

The semester is more than halfway over. I’ve been taking an intermediate Cantonese class. Every Saturday morning, we meet in a classroom at the main campus across town.

There are about 20 students, many like me who grew up with the language but can’t speak it fluently, others who married into Cantonese-speaking families, some native Mandarin-speakers who are learning their third language, and one older black man who tells me he lived in Chinatown when he was a child. A Chinese mom stops by the class one day to enroll her son, and the next week a sleepy-eyed teenager appears. After a few weeks, though, he drops out.

In Cantonese there is a term for people like him and me, Chinese born in Western countries: jook sing. A play on the word bamboo; we are hollow. But reading the news one day, I learn another term: receptive bilingual, or the more negative-sounding passive bilingual. It means someone who can understand a great deal of a language, but who doesn’t have enough command over it to speak it. I feel seen knowing there���s a term for me, that even though I exert effort to switch mouths, I am considered bilingual.

[grey-lark]

“I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”

“Why?” she said.

“To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.””

-> https://longreads.com/2018/09/27/ugly-bitter-and-true/ (scroll down)

People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

https://x.com/eliciadonze/status/1404054807598469124?s=46&t=dtIQnkCmPSvO4H3PBZmGsg

^^ these two are the first quotes i think about that may relate/be similar to what you’re thinking of

Yes - thank you so much! These two were exactly what I was thinking of!

[fadingsunsjvj]

Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape - Longreads

https://longreads.com/2018/12/05/monopoly-vs-the-magic-cape/

[sustainableyadayadayada]

Longreads #5 stories

Longreads.com publishes a “top 5 stories” post every week. “Sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, always thought-provoking, they all have a certain je ne sais quoi that makes them special—something you’ll want to share with a friend.” Sometimes there are some real gems here that you wouldn’t pick up anywhere else (well, they are all from somewhere else, but often sources I would not otherwise…

[diamond-jewellery-for-everyone]

‘Maya Blue’: The Mystery Dye Recreated Two Centuries After It Was Lost

In this fascinating read that blends ancient history, art, culture, and pigment science, Mark Viales profiles an Indigenous Maya ceramicist in Mexico who has successfully recreated the iconic Maya bl… http://longreads.com/2024/12/10/maya-blue-the-mystery-dye-recreated-two-centuries-after-it-was-lost/

[rameylady]

Good Read: Stumbling Can Be Lovely - Longreads

Stumbling Can Be Lovely – Longreads — Read on longreads.com/2024/03/07/stumbling-can-be-lovely-devin-kelly/

[jhave]

30 Years of Writing on the Internet - Longreads

[hackernewsrobot]

A lonely man in his 30s found community in an unlikely place: spin class

https://longreads.com/2024/09/05/spin-masculinity-loneliness-friendship/

[softness-and-shattering]

https://longreads.com/2023/05/11/how-to-survive-a-car-crash-traumatic-brain-injury-10-easy-steps

[garudabluffs]

Harmonious Friendship: A boygenius album review

The Long-Awaited Album from Indie Music’s Biggest Supergroup

READ MORE https://dailycollegian.com/2023/04/harmonious-friendship-a-boygenius-album-review/

Girl Genius

She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.

READ MORE https://longreads.com/2023/04/27/girl-genius/

[mayaninternet]

Haven't logged into this thing in forever. Are you all wearing Tumblr shirts while tumbling?

EDIT: never mind, just discovered the blaze button. What is this shit

[fadingsunsjvj]

Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape - Longreads

https://longreads.com/2018/12/05/monopoly-vs-the-magic-cape/

[sustainableyadayadayada]

Longreads reader favorites

Longreads.com readers like some weird, occasionally morbid stuff apparently, most of which does not appeal to me personally. The only one that really stood out to me is I was Hypnotized as a Teen. Was it Dangerous? Basically, the verdict is that medical hypnosis is definitely a real thing, and there is overall agreement that stage hypnosis is at least partially real. People can’t be hypnotized…

[apricitystudies]

hi megan! i always love seeing your monthly reading lists, thank you for putting in so much effort to post them! it inspired me to read more articles/essays etc. but i'm having a hard time finding interesting ones because i just don't really know where to look, or what website or search terms? how do you find the articles you read? do you maybe have any tips? sending you love! 💌

hi, tysm!! i've answered this here but here's a more in-depth version:

like i said i have some news sites i check regularly, and those 3 haven't changed. i usually use these as a jumping off point to learn about current affairs and do further research on whatever i find interesting there

i'm subscribed to the guardian's 'the long read' emails. if you find a site you like and don't mind email clutter, that's usually a good way to find interesting reads!

you can also set up google alerts for topics that you're particularly interested in if you want to be really hardcore about it

longreads.com curates longform articles

beyond that, i generally just snoop around the web when i learn something new in class, or my friends send me stuff to read (like k and his never-ending pdf library)