Courtney Martin
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newsletter @substack, podcaster @slate How To! & @prx The Wise Unknown, co-founder @freshspeakers & @soljourno, electric slider, lover, fighter
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🏆Exciting news: Two Slate Podcasts 🎧 were nominated for The Webby Awards! Congrats to:
🎧How To! hosted by 𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕝, Courtney Martin & Charles Duhigg: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…
🔥Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas hosted by Joel D. Anderson 🆓: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…
Vote for us!
'Why do we–those whom the dementia activist Morris Friedell terms the ‘temporarily able-brained’--need them to vanish? And what possibilities are we precluding, what hard work of the soul are we avoiding, by imposing this distance?' Lynn Casteel Harper courtney.substack.com/p/forgetting-a…
'Yes, there were probably a lot of copies of Between The World and Me left unread, but there were also tons of hearts and minds changed.' Love how Garrett Bucks calls us White folks in. This book is going to be so nutritious for so many people: substack.com/inbox/post/142…
Opinion: Women leaders of color are exhausted writes Dr. Sayu Bhojwani. 'From unfulfilled racial justice pledges to unionizing nonprofits, the pressures on us aren’t letting up.' New American Leaders Open Society Foundations bit.ly/3TflISk
'Who is the same as they were two decades ago?'
That is the question that Daryl Atkinson voiced when I interviewed him for my The Christian Science Monitor cover story on the fines and fees that strip already economically marginalized people of money.
csmonitor.com/USA/Society/20…
Sometimes we talk about economics as if they were inevitable—like a weather pattern or a disease process. In fact, humans shape economies, and we shape them with our values—both implicit and explicit. Had fun exploring this with Nick Romeo on his new book: courtney.substack.com/p/the-secret-o…
Celebrating Galentine's Day? Slate's How To! created the perfect listen for it: a three part series on friendship, launching today.
Join Courtney Martin & 𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕝 with marci alboher on episode one: 'How To Find Friends in Unexpected Places.'
slate.com/podcasts/how-t…
My dad has dementia & among so many losses he has experienced—no longer able to drive, no longer able to operate an iPhone, no longer able to access his laugh at the timbre that he once did—one loss has been magnificent: anxiety. His anxiety has vanished. courtney.substack.com/p/existential-…
I wrote a piece in this wonderful round-up of pieces on home for The Christian Science Monitor. There is so much beauty and diversity of thought and experience in here: csmonitor.com/USA/Society/20…
Need a last-minute holiday gift? This poster of wisdom to live by (sourced from The Wise Unknown podcast by me & turned into art by wendy macnaughton ) is just what your momma/bestie/workwife ordered: society6.com/courtneyemartin