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We Choose Our Cults Every Day
Cultish, a new book by the linguist Amanda Montell, reveals how insidery language informs the communities of modern life.
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Way back in January, I was idly thumbing through Instagram when I received a message that shook me like a nascent martini. “Did you hear that Taking Cara Babies donated to Trump?” a friend wrote. This sentence likely makes no sense to you, unless you’ve had a baby sometime in the past few years. Taking Cara Babies is the brand name for Cara Dumaplin, a neonatal nurse turned baby-sleep expert who became, in 2020, my everything.
A new glossary called the Renaming Revolution includes more than 60 new and improved, nonjudgmental medical terms. It's one piece of a broader effort to make conception and pregnancy language less offensive and more humane.
âIâm sceptical that things are improvingâ: Zakiya Dalila Harris photographed in Brooklyn last month. Photograph: Maria Spann/The Observer
âIâm sceptical that things are improvingâ: Zakiya Dalila Harris photographed in Brooklyn last month. Photograph: Maria Spann/The Observer
The author of a debut novel about diversity in the workplace on how black people act around white people, embracing her hair, and whatâs changed a year after George Floydâs murder
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Zakiya Dalila Harris was born and raised in Connecticut and is currently based in Brooklyn. Now a full-time writer, she previously worked in book publishing, an experience she draws on in her highly anticipated debut novel,