Author: Laura Perry
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Financing American Inequality: A Conversation with Paige Glotzer
in PodcastsHistorian Paige Glotzer discusses the segregated suburbs and what the history of Baltimore’s Roland Park Company has to do with today’s inequality.
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Sankofa Farms Is an Education: Five Questions for Kamal Bell
in PodcastsFarmer and educator Kamal Bell discusses the growth of Sankofa Farms and the legacies of racism and dispossession for African American farmers.
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What Justice We Can Achieve: Five Questions for Dan Lewerenz
in PodcastsThe Native American Rights Fund works toward multiple forms of justice: legal, environmental, and social. Staff attorney Dan Lewerenz explains how.
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Making Zines for Science: Five Questions for Christine Liu
Artist and neuroscientist Christine Liu shares her zines, Nicotine and The Opium Poppy, that explore the links between plants, drugs, and the brain.
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No, Bats Aren’t Scary: Five Questions for Tessa Collins
in InterviewsThis Halloween, consider the wild lives of bats today, adapting to a changing climate and facing a deadly (and spreading) fungus.
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The Future of Animal Studies: A Conversation with Lori Gruen
in PodcastsAcclaimed animal studies scholar Lori Gruen takes stock of the field and discusses her new collection, Critical Terms for Animal Studies.
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Eight Online Environmental Archives to Bookmark
in ChecklistsThese digital environmental archives offer a range of approaches to environmental histories, cultural practices, and ecological changes.
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Weathering This World with Comics
in ChecklistsComics and graphic novels help us picture new worlds and imagine how to save our own. Four writers recommend their favorites.
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The Animals’ Guide to History: A Conversation with Stephanie Rutherford and Shari Wilcox
in PodcastsTwo geographers, co-editors of the new volume Historical Animal Geographies, discuss how the animals around us shape our histories, our environments, and the stories we tell about the world.
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What Dogs Can Teach Us About Justice: A Conversation with Colin Dayan
in PodcastsWhat would it mean to see through the eyes of dogs? The tangled histories of humans and animals show us how personhood, criminality, and cruelty are constructed.