Kristen Martin
Writer at Freelance
THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW 01/21/25 @BoldTypeBooks. Same handle on bsky, find me there.
Articles
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1 week ago |
npr.org | Kristen Martin
In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges are stacked in pyramids. They appear identical and in their seeming perfection, unremarkable, a mundane fruit to slice into wedges and pack in a child's lunchbox. But as Katie Goh unravels in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, underneath its pitted skin, the orange contains multitudes. "Citrus is fruit that freely betrays," Goh writes.
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2 weeks ago |
newrepublic.com | Kristen Martin
One day in early fall 1930, a black cararrived at a small wood-frame house in Odanah, Wisconsin, to whisk 5-year-old Bernice Rabideaux and her four siblings away to St. Mary’sCatholic Indian Mission School. After the break-up of their parents’ marriage, thechildren, citizens of the Bad River Ojibwe tribe, had been living with theirgrandmother, but she could no longer afford to care for them.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Kristen Martin
The same children who were fodder for family influencers have become uneasy fodder for streaming documentaries.
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2 months ago |
thebaffler.com | Kristen Martin
In the five years since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, the fact that humans react to pathogens politically has become impossible to ignore. The spiky orb of a SARS-CoV-2 particle does not care whom it infects—it wants only to reproduce inside a host. And yet in the United States, Covid-19 disproportionately sickened and killed indigenous, black, and Hispanic people.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
lithub.com | Kristen Martin
The first kid I knew who didn’t live with his parents was Shawn Hunter, Cory Matthews’s best friend on Boy Meets World. Like many in the 1990s, I grew up alongside Shawn and Cory, one episode at a time. Though Boy Meets World was set in Philadelphia, the white bread world of Cory (the titular boy, played by curly-haired dweeb Ben Savage) felt not unlike my own in the Long Island suburbs.
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