Rich mom, poor mom—all in one
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2006, Amy Carpenter Leugs examines the…
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On privilege and plunder
My small community at Kalamazoo Peace House has been reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, Between the World and Me (Spiegel and Grau, 2015). Structured…
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Taking it on the chin
The first time I got socked in the jaw it came as a total surprise. At 14 years old, I was already close to…
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Encounter
The wave of tension that tightened the spines of the thirty-odd commuters on the platform is familiar to any urbanite. I was living in…
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