Lily Salter's Blog, page 1067
June 28, 2015
Director of Nina Simone documentary: “We were in our edit room when the events of Ferguson were unfolding. It reminds you that the struggle is ongoing”
Salon talks to Liz Garbus about "What Happened, Miss Simone?," the icon's life and career and civil rights
Birth control for beginners: What’s preventing women from getting access to the full range of contraceptive options?
Long-acting contraceptives get left out of the conversation, in favor of methods with a higher human-error factor
Amy Schumer turned down “The Daily Show” job: Report
Schumer thought seriously about saying yes to taking over from Jon Stewart
Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense
Two authors on using fairy-tale elements to explore trauma & memory, and why "Is this real" is a loaded question
The right-wing senator who frequented prostitutes celebrated marriage equality with Chick-fil-A. Twitter wasn’t impressed
David Vitter's a moralist and former patron of the D.C. madam. Twitter remembered after his dog-whistle tweet
June 27, 2015
How I joined the Mile High Club: Naked, weightless, giggling uncontrollably
I was a flight attendant and he was a pilot. Finally, it got embarrassing that we hadn't yet done it in the sky
The boy I used to be: The world would look at me and see Leslie — they don’t know I’m really Peter Pan
By the time I was older, Peter was no longer my pretend self, my brash, heroic alter ego; he’d become a part of me
Addiction is not a disease: A neuroscientist argues that it’s time to change our minds on the roots of substance abuse
A psychologist and former addict insists that the illness model for addiction is wrong, and dangerously so
Violence is contagious: Stopping its transmission became the mission of the man who’d fought TB and cholera in Somalia
Gary Slutkin figured out that violence spread like infectious disease. Here's what he's doing to "interrupt" it
Are killer whales persons?: The more we learn about orcas, the more our assumption of innate superiority looks like a presumption
They have big brains, complex social structures, rich emotional lives -- how can we still hold them captive?
