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Zoë Beery

Zoë Beery
Power Jun 05

Sex workers protest a post-Backpage world

Enraged by SESTA and FOSTA, sex workers took to the streets on International Whores’ Day.

The Future May 25

The prescription abortion pill we could have, but don’t

Mifeprestone is offered directly to patients in places like Canada and Australia, but not in the U.S.

The Future Apr 24

Sex work is moving to blockchain payments

A new cryptocurrency aims to offer sex workers a way to take payment in a digital world that does not welcome them.

Culture Mar 28

Say goodbye to your happy plantation narrative

Only a small percentage of historical interpreters are black, and Cheyney McKnight is trying to change that.

Culture Jan 10

That font you hate is coming back in style

Fontdinerdotcom evokes the ‘50s as you’d like to remember them, not as they really were.

Power Dec 13

Ed Lee sold out San Francisco

More than being the city’s first Asian-American mayor, Lee’s legacy is his complicity in the tech industry’s reckless growth.

Culture Dec 07

The Great 78 Project is preserving our sonic past

The Internet Archive will soon be home to hundreds of thousands of audio recordings that would otherwise be lost forever.

Power Jul 25

America’s long, shameful history of sterilizing prisoners

Coerced sterilizations are a shade away from eugenics.

Culture Jun 20

How Fred Perry polos came to symbolize hate

The political history of Fred Perry, white supremacy’s favorite athleisure brand

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