HeyJaredPlanting Trees
Essays about the roots of our current political moment and how we can dig them up and plant new things.
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Back to Work (opens the original)
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tl;dr: I have a new job.The first time I ever set foot in the Chicago was in 2011, when my mother took me to the city as a high school graduation present. We did most of the usual Midwestern tourist activities, with one notable speech-and-debate-kid exception: I made her take me to City Hall and the Thompson Center, to see the government buildings and try to catch a glimpse of Rahm Emanuel. Forgive me. I was sixteen, more into politics than you can possibly imagine, and, like most young poli
It's Racism. (opens the original)
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My grandfather played college basketball.He almost played professionally, but he broke his leg senior year and it never healed right. That he almost went pro is not true just in his head, like it is for most middle-aged men three beers deep. In a scrapbook in my grandparents’ home in north Georgia, there is a letter from the Atlanta Hawks—at the time, based in Saint Louis—asking him to join the team.Some photographs of my grandfather capture him as an athlete, even ones taken decades after he hu
The Banality of Misogyny (opens the original)
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This essay is about sexual violence. It’s about low level harassment, and patriarchy, and rape, and pedophilia, and apologia, and the Epstein files. If that’s not right for you right now, please don’t read it. It is also intensely personal. It does not and cannot represent the views of every survivor of sexual assault, a group containing an astonishingly high number of women and gender diverse people and a vastly underreported number of cisgender men. It engages clinically and almost certainly i
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