As the United States grapples with persistent inflation, economic inequality, and President Trump’s red pen which has halted $500 million worth of food bank deliveries, the hunger crisis, in the still often hypersegregated urban cities, has intensified, revealing a stark contrast between corporate welfare and austerity measures targeting vulnerable
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Netflix has greenlit a new TV adaptation of “Little House on the Prairie,” the beloved book series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. —Variety, January 2025 “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a classic, award-winning children’s book that is a staple of grade school and junior
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Kimberly and Lark discuss how to create streets for all of New Jersey. We question the usefulness of pulling up rails for parks. Then we entertain the dream of a protected bike lane and trolley up Bloomfield Avenue. Finally we discuss, despite there being a few more women in urbanism,
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One of the most effective ways to get people to engage in evil is to convince them that they are doing good. The volunteer fire department is the angelic mask placed by a deceitful community to allow exclusion.
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Guest columnist, Charles Sontag, PhD The Newark Subway run by New Jersey Transit (NJT) has much potential and is underdeveloped. It started as a replacement for the Morris Canal which was abandoned in the mid 1920’s. At that time, several cities, Newark, Bloomfield, Clifton, and Paterson purchased the canal
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Hello friends! If you enjoy receiving the AF newsletter, one small but impactful way to support us is by clicking at least one link. Engagement metrics help us demonstrate our reach to funders, which is crucial for a startup like ours. Merci beaucoup, mes amours! Despite ongoing challenges, the courts
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New Jersey needs more non-driving options into the city. Half of the nonresident income-tax payments in New York come from people who live in New Jersey and work in New York City. According to 2021 in Data NY in 2014, that was 3.1 billion dollars. Yet, New Jersey is
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This week Kimberly and Lark discuss acclerationism in an episode that could be titled "Just Like Us" as a play on Kendrick Lamar’s catchy anthem of working class solidarity. In the theory of accelerationism, working-class men may believe they will regain power, but the truth is they
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Activism is not limited to one lane, so for International Women’s Month, we also uplift artists, as they inspire so many of us on our paths to free others. New Jersey has so many feminists, especially in music, which brings us to Debbie Harry. Harry, the charismatic frontwoman of
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Employing Prosocial Positive Change Methods to Facilitate Equity and Collaboration in Spatial Planning Frederick Law Olmsted, Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, Jane Jacobs, and Rosa Parks all used positive change methods. Politics, literature, and media are all tools for change. The Mount Laurel Doctrine: New Jersey’s Unfulfilled Promise of Affordable
We’ve had quite a few new sign-ups recently—thank you for joining us, whether through A Feminist Newsletter in NJ—about Urbanism or my longtime group, Space is a Means of Production. People sometimes ask why we talk about politics when our focus is urbanism. But I’m always
In the shadow of New Jersey’s tree lined sprawling suburbs (in the political definition) and gleaming office parks lies a paradox: a landmark legal mandate for equitable housing, celebrated as a national model, yet perpetually deferred by bureaucratic inertia and local often racist and classist resistance. The Mount Laurel
This week, we crash into the origins of International Women’s History Month, explore the distinction between Feminist vs. Women, and examine the path forward after the 2024 elections. We’ll also unpack the impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and share why Lark doesn’t call her mother.
I do not need to see blood in the streets before I propose that Trump is a menace that needs to be impeached. I have an epistemic reason to believe this. My proposition is analytic. My understanding of philosophy, behaviorism, history, and political science brings me to this belief. My
The French capital is being reimagined through the lens of equity, sustainability, and community—and what it means for the future of cities. On a crisp autumn morning along the Seine, the rhythm of the city feels different. Where traffic once snarled and honked, children now chase bubbles blown by
In 1790, New Jersey became one of the first states to enfranchise women, amending its election laws to include “he” or “she” explicitly granting both men and women the right to vote. But by 1807, the state had revoked that right, not only for women but also for Black people
Marsha P. Johnson blazed through the streets of 1960s and 1970s New York as a luminary of the gay rights movement, her smile as much a weapon as her wit. She championed homeless LGBTQI youth, fought for those ravaged by HIV and AIDS, and demanded dignity for transgender people in
Yes, another United States is possible. This phrase borrows from the World Social Forum’s slogan, Another World IS Possible. The World Social Forum (WSF) which is an alternative to the World Economic Forum. WSF “embodies global civil society, bringing together organizations, advocacy campaigns, and social movements that seek solidarity”
The congestion pricing debate is a symptom of a larger problem. The relationship between New York and New Jersey is often reduced to a tired rivalry: New York as the glittering metropolis, New Jersey as the punchline. This lazy narrative obscures a deeper truth—these two states are not adversaries
In the quiet cul-de-sacs of New Jersey’s suburbs, where white picket fences and manicured lawns symbolize the American Dream, a quiet crisis unfolds daily. Meet Sarah (name changed to protect her guilty—husband), a middle-class mother of two in Paramus County: by 8 a.m., she’s dropped her
This is not partisan, this is just to show that democracy can still work and this is the guy that might be able to do it. WOW!!! Check out the energy for Bernie Sanders in Omaha, Nebraska tonight! 3,400 people showed up in this Republican district. This is huge.
