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Losing ground: how one New Orleans community is sinking | New Orleans

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A 2016 Nasa study identified groundwater use from Entergy’s decommissioned Michoud power plant as the primary cause for the sinking. Photograph: Julie Dermansky for FloodlightWhile land is subsiding throughout the city, industrial water use has exacerbated the problem in one predominantly Black and Vietnamese area by Sara Sneath for FloodlightFloodlight embedIn the early 1990s, James Wright lost his family home in New Orleans’ Ninth ward when a new school was built on his block. Read More...

My mother announced that I had become a woman: why conversations about menstruation are so imp

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The ObserverMenstruationWhen Rachel Kauder Nalebuff had her first period, it was broadcast to her wider family, to her intense shame. Sharing the experience unearthed a treasure chest of stories, which became her new anthology, Our Red Book At a family Passover seder in Queens, I was sitting at the kids’ table, like every other year of my life beforehand. Clinking her glass, my mother announced to my extended family that I had “become a woman”. Read More...