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2 months ago | thepersistent.com | Ruchika Malhotra |Emma Haslett |Anne Quito

History Lessons — 8 min read 💛The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. On Jan. 29, 1951, a young woman named Henrietta Lacks visited The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, complaining of painful vaginal bleeding. She was examined by a gynecologist named Dr. Howard Jones and the diagnosis was devastating: Lacks had a large, malignant tumor on her cervix. It was cancer.

2 months ago | thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett |Anne Quito |Lucy Webster

It’s taken decades, but the face of the movie industry may finally be changing—even if slowly and imperfectly. A new working paper authored by three academics at the University of Southern California Annenberg, found that across the top 100 movies that came out in 2024, more than half featured a story that was centered on a female-identified actor as a lead or co-lead. Katherine L. Neff, Dr. Stacy L.

2 months ago | thepersistent.com | Anne Quito |Lucy Webster |Emma Haslett

Infertility — 6 min read How did something so joyful quickly become something so sour? Late last month, Lily Collins, the star of the Netflix series, “Emily in Paris,” endured a brutal backlash after she announced the birth of her daughter, Tove, on social media and—naively, perhaps (though really was it anyone’s business?)—added that “words will never express our endless gratitude for our incredible surrogate.” The reaction was swift and brutal.

Dec 9, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Mark Byrnes |Marianela D’Aprile |Philip Poon |Anne Quito

At the peak of his fame, in the mid-1980s, artist Scott Burton often spoke of functional design and its value through the perspective of future archaeologists and anthropologists. “What matters is how intensely it reflects the history of its moment, how much it reveals of what history is about at that time,” he explained. A performance artist, furniture designer, and art critic in the 1970s, Burton’s visibility increased greatly in the following decade.

Nov 25, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Marianela D’Aprile |Philip Poon |Anne Quito |Diana Budds

On the last page of Hélène Binet (Lund Humphries), a book of the photographer’s work released this past spring, an image, shot in Binet’s signature black-and-white format, depicts an installation by the late architect Zaha Hadid. The caption tells us that the photograph was made in 2000 at the Académie de France, located at Rome’s Villa Medici, and that the taut lines stretching across the frame are red twine.