What We’re Reading

Refinery29’s Mirel Zaman examines the value of new year’s resolutions, especially in 2021. Read it here.

The Atlantic’s Amanda Mull writes about American’s relationship with fitness and how/why they are returning to the gym during a pandemic. Read it here.

Tara Haelle’s Medium piece is all about the steady devolve of quarantine and some tips on how to address ambiguous loss and surge capacity depletion. Read it here.

Part of the September 2020 issue of Vanity Fair, Ta-nehisi Coates interviews Tamika Palmer, mother of Breonna Taylor, about her daughter’s life which was taken too soon. Read it here.

The New York Times examines how high-labor crops, like cherries🍒, are harvested by essential workers during the pandemic. Read it here.

Well Read partnered with The Mindfulness Center for an event about rest as a revolutionary form of self-care and resistance. Check out all of the articles, studies, podcasts we brought up.

Refinery29 spells out what equal pay day means in general, and what it means for Black women specifically. Learn more about the state of the gender and racial pay gap. Read it here.

The 19th interviews Stacey Abrams on the unequal history of voting rights in America. An important topic leading up to an election with lots of anticipated mail-in votingRead it here.

Teen Vogue dives into the internet’s reaction to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s new hit, WAP. TLDR: owning your sexuality, emphasizing consent and pleasure is threatening. Read it here.

Tracey Anne Duncan pens her experience quitting alcohol during the pandemic for Mic. Read it here.

Psychology had an explanation for why women are "naturally" monogamous. Margaret Wheeler Johnson of Bustle covers who Psychologist Terri Conley blew that up. Read it here.

Danny Vikram Bell describes what it’s been like staying sober during a global pandemic in British Vogue. Read it here.

Sandra E. Garcia writes about healing generational, racial trauma through rest and sleep as a revolutionary act for The New York Times. Read it here.

Written by Henry Goldblatt for The New York Times. Explore how the name Karen has become “ pseudonym for a middle-aged busybody with a blond choppy bob who asks to speak to the manager. Now, the moniker has most recently morphed into a symbol of racism and white privilege.” Read it here.

Terry Nguyen reports on the global hashtag used to bring attention to a women’s rights campaign in Turkey and how it lost its way. Read it here.

Arthur C. Brooks dives into the need to sit with negative emotions in order to fully process for The Atlantic. To exist is to feel the full spectrum of emotion. Read it here.

The 19th’s Shefali Luthra examines how the pandemic has impacted the mental health of America. Race, gender, sexual orientation, and class are compounding and intersecting factors. Read it here.

Tracey Anne Duncan writes about spiritual bypassing in the yoga world as a way circumvent hard feelings and hard realities, like racism, for Mic. Read it here.