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Catherine Woodiwiss

Catherine Woodiwiss is a journalist in Washington, D.C., and senior associate online editor for Sojourners, where she writes on culture, tech, and religion. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and has recently appeared in The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, The Washington Post, ThinkProgress, andBooks & Culture. When not writing on deadline, you can find her building service design agencies and DIY house concert networks, advising on friends' new business ideas, writing pop song parodies, hosting porch nights, climbing, and/or all of those at once. She aims to keep D.C. weird. Hold her to it.

A playful revolution
ThrowbackJune 22, 2017

A playful revolution

By Catherine Woodiwiss

Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, Catherine Woodiwiss discovers how play can…

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Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

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