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Steven Thrasher

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Every New Disease Triggers a Search for Someone to Blame

Focusing on a virus’s origins encourages individualized shame while ignoring the broader societal factors that contribute to a disease’s transmission.

by Steven Thrasher via The Atlantic on July 31, 2022

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On August 8, 2022, activists protest the lack of monkeypox vaccine and treatment access outside the San Francisco Federal Building.

What the AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About Monkeypox

Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.

by Joshua Gutterman Tranen via Boston Review on October 3, 2022

A Brief Criminal History of the Mask

How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since.

by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on April 21, 2020

Generations of Village Voice Writers Reflect on the End of Print

The end of an era.

by Luke O'Neil via Esquire on August 23, 2017

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