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It's Been Juneteenth All Year Long

1 week ago | wearethemeteor.com | Rebecca Carroll

Greetings, Meteor readers,Tomorrow is Juneteenth, so our offices (and maybe yours) are closed. But we couldn’t shut down our laptops without leaving you with a little bit of relevant reading and listening. Today Rebecca Carroll walks us through a year that, in spite of it all, has been culturally Black as fuck. Afterward, if you feel like luxuriating a little longer, read six incredible women on what they believe is the true meaning of Juneteenth.
Three Questions About Private Equity with Megan Greenwell

2 weeks ago | wearethemeteor.com | Nona Willis Aronowitz

By Nona Willis AronowitzWhen journalist Megan Greenwell scored her dream job as the editor-in-chief of the sports website Deadspin, she hadn’t thought about private equity at all. She had never done any finance reporting, and she had only the vaguest sense of what private equity even did. But when, in 2019, Deadspin was being destroyed by the firm that owned it, she wrote a scorched-earth resignation letter and resolved to learn more about the human cost of this ubiquitous and insidious industry.
Three Questions About...Wellness

1 month ago | wearethemeteor.com | Cindi Leive

By Cindi LeiveOne of the many developments of the last decade—along with the rise of AI, Trumpism and tradwives—is the vast and varied world known as “wellness,” which includes everything from that meditation app on your phone to billion-dollar biohacking. Journalist Amy Larocca has spent seven years making sense of it all, and her book, How to Be Well: Navigating our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time, is out today.
The Wonder of Amy Sherald

2 months ago | wearethemeteor.com | Rebecca Carroll

By Rebecca CarrollLast month, The New Yorker featured a breathtaking portrait on its cover by celebrated Black American artist Amy Sherald. First painted in 2014 and titled “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” the portrait of a young Black woman wearing a bright red hat is the same piece Sherald later submitted in a competition at the National Portrait Gallery.
The new binge-drinkers

2 months ago | wearethemeteor.com | Nona Willis Aronowitz

Dearest Meteor readers,I’m feeling tender this week and I’m gonna blame Dying For Sex, the new FX miniseries about actual death, the little death, and ride-or-die friendship. The final episode had me in a puddle the other day. Highly rec’d if you’re a fan of Michelle Williams and/or catharsis. Today, we dig into a surprising new statistic about young women and drinking. Plus, affirmative action for white men and justice for Black mothers.
Lessons from an epic 2013 filibuster

2 months ago | wearethemeteor.com | Nona Willis Aronowitz

First, how did you define“power” for this research? For me, “power” is the ability to influence or direct the actions of a group or society toward a specific desired outcome. I started with the premise that although women are 50 percent of the U.S. population, we are still the most likely to live in poverty, to experience sexual harassment or gender-based violence, and to live in states where we don’t have complete bodily autonomy. Politically, we hold less than a third of elected offices.
Just Let Everyone Play

Mar 28, 2025 | wearethemeteor.com | Scarlett Harris

By Scarlett HarrisIn 1902, British figure skater Madge Syers won the silver medal in what was, at the time, an all-men’s World Figure Skating Championships. Until then, women competed only in elite sports perceived as feminine, such as tennis, croquet, and horseback riding, but weren’t explicitly prohibited from competing against men, perhaps because the thought seemed so outlandish.
What's the Right Way to Miscarry?

Mar 27, 2025 | wearethemeteor.com | Rebecca Carroll

Greetings, Meteor readers,You may not have noticed, but today was the worst day of the year: Opening Day. If those words mean nothing to you, then congratulations on having peace in your life. But if, like me, you happen to live with or tolerate an unbearable Yankees fan, then my heart goes out to you. Be strong. In today’s newsletter, another woman’s pregnancy is being criminalized in the state of Georgia.
Netflix's Adolescence Isn't About Race, Except Maybe It Is

Mar 27, 2025 | wearethemeteor.com | Rebecca Carroll

By Rebecca CarrollEveryone is talking about Adolescence, the new Netflix drama that tells the harrowing story of a 13-year-old boy who is accused of killing his classmate, a girl named Katie. As a mother, I watched it as a cautionary tale about the perils of violent incel culture on the still-developing brains of young boys. But as a Black cultural critic who is also the mother of a Black boy, it also made me think about who we feel empathy for, and who we do not. To be clear, I loved Adolescence.
The “Recurring Lies” We Learn in School

Feb 15, 2025 | wearethemeteor.com | Rebecca Carroll

BY REBECCA CARROLLAUTHOR EVE L. EWING WANTS YOUNG PEOPLE TO “UNDERSTAND THEIR OWN RADICAL POWER.”It’s been less than a month of the second Trump administration, and already in its crosshairs is the Department of Education.