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Camp ToB 2021

Week Four: Detransition, Baby

We wrap up the discussion on our second book of June—and it’s time to vote for which of this month’s books you want to send to our end-of-summer finale!

by The Tournament of Books Staff

Sweepstakes

Everything Now, the Skateboard Edition

To celebrate the release of Everything Now by TMN co-founder Rosecrans Baldwin, we’re partnering with his publisher to give away a skateboard.

by Andrew Womack

A profile of economist Emily Oster, whose prominence in the debate around reopening schools "has been galling to some educators."

↩︎ The New York Times 17h

Illustrator Jenifer Prince, based in São Paulo, turns vintage pop comics into contemporary lesbian love stories.

↩︎ It's Nice That 17h

The elephant in the room? A woman in Thailand explains what's it like when one enters your kitchen.

↩︎ The Guardian 19h

Portraits by Brazil's Luciano Cian that deal in "the miscegenation of races and peoples, with diversity as the central focus.”

↩︎ Colossal 19h

Remarkable storm photography from California's Mitch Dobrowner.

↩︎ Mitch Dobrowner 19h

“Very suspenseful,” one senator could be heard saying wryly as the votes were cast and the For the People Act was duly ushered to the legislative graveyard.

What it sounds like inside the Senate as a sweeping elections bill experiences an entirely anticipated death.

↩︎ Wake Up to Politics

19h

Convenience store clerks are being constantly monitored by workers who yell at them from thousands of miles away.

↩︎ VICE 20h

Based on the replies, young people on Twitter do not want to be lectured by venture capitalists on how to spend their time.

↩︎ VICE 1d

What is "cryptidcore?" An aesthetic based around mythical creatures and the looks to be worn when hunting them in the woods.

↩︎ i-D 1d

Rare species of cactus may be driven to extinction by poachers who steal them from South America and ship them to collectors.

↩︎ CBC 1d

Fifty percent of new cannabis consumers are smoking five or more days per week; 22% of new consumers use multiple times per day.

↩︎ Forbes 1d

The topography of the African continent, mapped.

↩︎ East of Nowhere / Instagram 1d

We completely agree with all praise for Julie Mehretu's remarkable abstractions.

↩︎ Africa Is a Country 1d

As an immigrant in the US, I am in the uniquely painful position of witnessing two sides of this story: Friends and family here who are unwilling to get vaccines and loved ones in other countries who are unable to get vaccines.

Junaid Nabi: Vaccine hesitancy and refusal in the US are a sign of extreme privilege.

↩︎ NPR

Nicholas St. Fleur: Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy—especially in the rate of Black men dying from colon cancer.

↩︎ STAT 1d

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↩︎ TMN Membership 2d

Looking back at the career of John Saunders Chase, the first Black licensed architect in Texas.

↩︎ Towers 2d

A roundup of resources for Ikea hacking.

↩︎ The Hustle 2d