You can often spot death doula Virginia Chang at the Union Square Farmer’s Market. We talked to Virginia about grief as an expression of love, leaving her career as a scientist, and learning to play the harp.
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Between bike rides around Barcelona, art director and editor Eleonora De Chiara spoke with us about the importance of patience, her favorite item in her archive, working at Paloma Wool, and more.
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You might spot fashion writer Liana Satenstein on a run around Prospect Park or food shopping in Brighton Beach. We chatted with her about working at Vogue, getting into fights at school, and spending time in Ukraine and Russia.
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Yasi Salek, host of the podcast Bandsplain, has made a career out of loving music. But before she was a podcaster, she was a kid in Torrance, CA, singing along to Madonna with her mom and saving her allowance money for CDs. Here, she shares the songs associated with some of her strongest memories, from first love and first-generation iPods to bad breakups and looking for the divine.
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You’re unlikely to spot painter Huong Dodinh on the street, as she’s nearly always at her home studio, working on her next painting. We visited Huong there for a chat about seeing snow for the first time, painting in total silence, and coming out of a coma.
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Sarah Ben Romdane's family produced olive oil in Tunisia from the end of the 19th century until the 1950s — and with her brand, KAÏA, Sarah has picked up the family legacy, producing olive oil on the same family-owned estate. We caught up with Sarah about olive oil, Ottoman stews and Levantine rice dishes, and nostalgic eating in diaspora.
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We caught up with Human Rights Policy Analyst Marianna to talk about immigrating from Georgia to the Netherlands as a child, expanding her French vocabulary through 90s rap, and the role of fashion in diplomacy.
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If you find yourself wandering through the stacks at The New York Public Library, you might run into Hiba Abid, the Library’s first-ever curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies — though she prefers Curator-Librarian. We stopped by Hiba’s apartment to chat about working at The New York Public Library, the traces of history left in manuscripts, and clubbing alone.
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We stopped by political organizer Kifah Shah’s home to chat about becoming a mother, student organizing, reading Marx when she was ten, and more.
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Where you’ll spot Tiana Rainford depends on her food cravings — she might be in Chinatown for vegan dumplings or in Williamsburg for pizza. But she’ll always come home to East New York, where she welcomed us into her apartment to talk about food and family, the ancient art of phone calls with friends, and being a reformed tomboy.
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Writer and activist Carol J. Adams, the pioneer of feminist-vegan critical theory, spends a lot of time thinking about the ethics of what we eat and how we care for one another — and she also spends a lot of her time cooking and eating with those she loves.
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On a rainy Friday in Brooklyn, we sat down with multidisciplinary artist Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter to discuss histories of Black refusal, adultification bias, systems of care in our society, and much more.
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We spoke with photographer Pia Riverola about her tenuous relationship with her iPhone, her favorite newsletter, a tradition of making phone calls with no purpose from her childhood in Barcelona, and more.
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We talked to boxing coach Colline Laninga about starting college at 16, going from periods of homelessness to the apartment where she met her friend and business partner, her ‘polycule elixir,’ and more.
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We talked to restauranteurs Sadjia and Mélane Masshour about the journey from Kabul to Paris, working together as mother and daughter, communicating culture through food, and much more.
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Shop owner Marzieh tells us about growing up in Iran, being one of eight siblings, and getting signed up for a dating app by her daughter.
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We talked to activist Kim Dadou-Brown about hanging out with her cool cousin in high school, finding love in prison, making a world where survivors of domestic violence are heard, and more.
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Jewelry historian and entrepreneur shares the song she lost her virginity to, the Britpop that soundtracked suburban drives and a semester in Scotland, and the song that sound like the smell of New Jersey roads in the summer.
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We spoke with architect and urban planner Mette Prag about growing up in one commune and raising her children in another, traveling through the Sahara desert, and going vegetarian.
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We spoke to filmmaker Amandine Gay about developing an Afro-feminist aesthetic, sleeping in on the weekends, and getting a hysterectomy.
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