Opinion
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What Walk Around Philadelphia taught me about our city’s borders—and my own
Here, there, home
Anndee Hochman’s Walk Around Philadelphia began as a refuge from the first year of the pandemic, but as her route continued into 2022, she remembered that living in Philly is a lifetime of crossings.
Essays
5 minute read
Why terms like “people of color” are a dangerous de-evolution of language
I am not your BIPOC
“People of color,” “BIPOC,” “Latinx,” and others have become household terms in the last five years in America. But with their origins largely ignored, these terms are becoming dangerous to the people they represent. Kyle V. Hiller considers.
Essays
5 minute read
Poetry at Payne Tech: Finding the words that show where you’re from
The people who write poems
Writer Anndee Hochman makes space for poetry at a New Jersey school of technology, where students prepare for a national contest, and appreciate the masks they’re tired of wearing.
Essays
5 minute read
How working in journalism in rural Pennsylvania opened a new perspective
Learning to serve communities better
Isabel Soisson, a Philly-bred journalist with experience working in New York City, contemplates the differences in rural America that go unspoken and why it's important to capture the whole picture.
Essays
6 minute read
I won’t recover in the dark: People with bipolar deserve to be seen
Mental illness isn’t a punchline
Editor Alaina Johns is taking a few weeks off to focus on treating her bipolar disorder, with the support of the BSR team. Here’s why it’s important to talk about this.
Editorials
7 minute read
The Weekly Roundup: A 2021 retrospective
Contemplating some of this year’s favorite BSR stories
Kyle V. Hiller writes about some of his favorite stories published by BSR this year in the final weekly roundup of the year while contemplating 2022 and beyond.
Articles
11 minute read
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Surviving New Year’s 2022 means finding the story that’s true for you
What Washington knew
This year, Michelle Chikaonda marked the anniversary of her father’s passing with a trip to see Hamilton in Philly, which reminded her that we can’t control life’s chaos—but we can find the right story.
Essays
6 minute read
What Netflix’s short-lived Cowboy Bebop teaches us about chance
The real remake blues
Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the classic anime feels like a missed opportunity, but it might be teaching us a lesson about how we share and create for ourselves. Kyle V. Hiller considers.
Essays
6 minute read
Racism and my nice small town newspaper
Stuck in the genteel
A local news outlet in Swarthmore shows us how not to cover a community and the dangers of appealing to a section of an audience that dances around its own racism. Amy Beth Sisson considers.
Features
5 minute read
Decades after childhood, is it too late to learn how to play?
Are we having fun yet?
Anndee Hochman considers her decades-long journey of finding what it means to play, integrating play into life, and the life lessons learned from a year of "fun" prompts from friends.
Features
5 minute read