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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We were excited to talk to publicist Kaitlin Phillips about watching the Olympics on a rented television set, finding a job on Facebook, making rent, and more.
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We had the chance to talk with actor, writer and content creator Delaney Rowe about the tap dance performances she foisted upon her parents as a kid, developing self-consciousness and a penchant for cringy moments, the luxury of having obsessions, and more.
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We had the chance to talk to Lexii about how she manifested herself as a superhero (or sexy villain?), the merits of weird art people dinners, empowering sex workers to choose their battles, and much more.
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We were excited to pick Professor Mindy Seu’s brain, as full of associations and asides as a Wikipedia page is loaded with hyperlinks, touching on everything from resistance training to how minds work to the effects growing up in a conservative household had on her sexuality to her love of Dries van Noten — read on for all this and more.
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Lexie Smith is an artist and baker presently based in upstate New York who spends a lot of time researching, thinking about, and making bread. She runs the online resource center Bread on Earth, which explores bread’s “potential as a social, political, economic, and ecological barometer.” In this interview, she shares her favorite spots for pastries, bagels, and loaves in New York City, as well as a variety of books and resources for learning more about bread and grains.
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We spoke with designer and archivist Jenn Park about her early love for Marc Jacobs/Juergen Teller ads, her recent success tracking down a lost documentary after a 15-year search, and how she treats her phone as a hard drive.
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Esthetician Raquel Medina-Cleghorn’s music preferences have traced her journey from San Diego to Portland back to San Diego to her eventual arrival in New York, with early interests in punk giving way to a love of electroclash and shoegaze. Here, she shares the songs associated with some of her strongest memories, from rebellious hair-spiking makeovers with her childhood best friend all the way to her wedding day.
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We chatted with home aide Siraba Coulibaly about her self-made business, the shocking truths she has to face as someone who often cares for people near the ends of their lives, her favorite colors to wear to make her skin tone pop, and more.
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Ethaney Lee is a vibrant, compelling content creator on Instagram, where as @tenderherbs, she cooks and shares meals that look as beautiful as they seem delicious. We spoke to Ethaney about her procrastination problems, why she doesn’t take food pics on dates, her everlasting devotion to tumblr, and much more.
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