Maia Hibbett

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Take the Quiz: Meet Your Mayor 2025

3 weeks ago | projects.thecity.nyc | Mia Hollie |Sam Rabiyah |Richard Kim |Maia Hibbett

Voters of New York City: Can’t decide who to put on your ballot for mayor? This quiz will help you decide by matching your responses to 18 questions with how candidates answered the same questions on urgent issues facing New Yorkers. The primary is on June 24, and early voting starts on June 14. The general election is on November 4, 2025.
New York voters pass Prop 1, enshrine abortion rights into state constitution

Nov 5, 2024 | gothamist.com | Maia Hibbett

New York voters passed Proposition 1 on Tuesday, enshrining abortion rights by adding anti-discrimination language to the state constitution. The measure is New York’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which protected reproductive rights at the federal level. While abortion is already legal in New York, the amendment makes it harder to restrict it in the future.
Here’s your guide to the November 2024 election in New York

Oct 26, 2024 | gothamist.com | Maia Hibbett

Are you reading this on your phone, hunched behind the white privacy panels of your voting booth, realizing you’re woefully unprepared to do your civic duty and darken various bubbles? Are you studying before you vote, and realizing your knowledge might have a gap or two? Or are you simply an electoral politics freak who wants to revisit local news? Whatever your situation, Gothamist has the answers for you.
No-No Boy and Political Self-Sacrifice

Mar 3, 2024 | toomanybooks.substack.com | Maia Hibbett

I didn’t know what to say about No-No Boy, John Okada’s 1957 novel about dissent and its consequences, until 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell walked up to the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, doused himself in fuel, and yelled “Free Palestine!” while burning alive. The fire killed him, as he likely knew it would. And you know, I’m assuming, much of what happened next.
I-Hotel and the Ephemera of Asian America

Feb 19, 2024 | toomanybooks.substack.com | Maia Hibbett

Try to picture “Asian America,” and you’ll probably get it wrong. Does a person of a single nationality come to mind, or maybe someone who just looks vaguely Asian? Were they born in the United States, or did they immigrate? Did you put them in a particular place, and why there? Whatever you’ve conjured is surely too specific or too broad, or maybe somehow both. So instead, picture a banana. A sexy, heroic, maternal Chiquita banana with two conjoined, apparently human, Asian-presenting daughters.
It Costs Too Much

Nov 6, 2023 | thebaffler.com | Sam Russek |Maia Hibbett |Hari Krishna Kaul

Tim Dunn saw a problem. In fact, he saw several problems: as the CEO of CrownQuest, an oil and gas company in Midland, Texas, he worried about government interfering too much with business. As a devout evangelical Christian, he believed that state policies were straying too far from biblical precepts. In the early 2000s, Dunn joined a well-funded push to move on both fronts—by electing more conservative Republicans to public office.
Sex, Drugs, and the Fog of War

Oct 30, 2023 | toomanybooks.substack.com | Maia Hibbett

Inherent Vice takes place in the twilight of an anti-war movement, was written in the dark night that followed another, and was consumed, in my case, at the dawn of a third. Having been born roughly yesterday, I’ll admit that I learned only recently that the United States’ murderous and deceptive war in Iraq was met with mass peace protests arguably as formidable as — and in some cases potentially bigger than — those opposing its devastation of Vietnam.
A Supposedly Funny Novel I’ll (Probably) Never Read Again

Sep 23, 2023 | toomanybooks.substack.com | Maia Hibbett

I recently readMy Search for Warren Harding, a novel about a New York-based historian who embarks on a quest for fabled presidential archives in shallow, glittering Los Angeles and disdains every person he meets on the way. He’s a back-to-school scholar struggling to get his first major post-grad finding after wasting a chunk of his adult life fundraising for a zoo. He appears to be gay and in denial and processes this by being as homophobic as humanly possible.
Introducing too many books!

Sep 20, 2023 | toomanybooks.substack.com | Maia Hibbett

It’s getting colder and darker earlier and I’m warming up my yearly joke that my friends won’t see me again until spring. It’s about that time when everyone starts calling everything “spooky,” (or, god forbid, “spoopy”) and doubles down on being really psyched about the leaves before they hit the ground and the seasonal depression swoops in.