Who am I in this world? I began to think. What does it mean to be a woman? Is it my body, my mind, or my spirit? Or maybe it is defined by the power I wield.
By the time I entered my senior year, I was fully exploring — crisscrossing barriers and mixing references, pulling from all the women I had read about — Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Audre Lorde — and those I was getting to know at school. …
By Sandy Soohoo
It sits at the bottom of a hill on the banks of the Hudson and was built with the money that came in from the steel mills and other industries that made Troy one of the area’s wealthiest towns at the turn of the century. Its downtown is full of brownstone-lined streets and Art Deco accents, with an impressive array of Tiffany stained-glass windows throughout. It’s like an elegantly designed movie set that’s been left behind to collect dust in a corner of a long-forgotten lot. And yet.
Situated within this rough-edged gem of a town smack…
Whether on the sound stages of Hollywood or in the intense, fast-paced, real life world of commercial kitchens, it’s rare that women run the back of the house — and exceptionally rare that they dominate it. In recent history, among restaurant executive chefs and James Beard winners, women are outnumbered about five to one. That’s why Nicole Craft’s majority-run kitchen staff at Ghent’s Bartlett House has given us something to chew on.
“I am metropolitan.” That’s what Nicole Craft declared to herself when she decided, in her early 20s, to move from her home state of Oklahoma…
New York’s 77th lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, talks with DVEIGHT Executive Editor Michael Mundy about the COVID-19 crisis, how it affects our region, and the steps she is taking, along with Governor Cuomo, to flatten the curve.
Michael Mundy: Thank you so much for doing this. First of all, we have to say that we really value what you, yourself are doing along with the governor. It’s been the most comforting news we get each day coming from the governor. So everyone in New York really appreciates it, but especially everyone here in our area.
Kathy Hochul: Well, thank…
Interview by Alexandria Haechler
Tell me about your experience growing up upstate.
To me, the Catskills are home through and through. My family lived in Accord for the first ten years of my life in a space that was beautiful, but you couldn’t see any other house from our property, so it was very isolated. We moved to Woodstock when I was ten, and because I had been going to summer camps and Hebrew school there from a young age, it felt like we were coming home to the community that I grew up with.
Woodstock is such a vibrant…
Burleigh being Burleigh, which is to say the kind of writer who is forever chasing a story, she wrote about Chili’s rescue for Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine. Although she works as national politics correspondent for Newsweek, she has a freelancer’s feral energy, endlessly sweeping the horizon for whatever adventure is next. Thoughts and observations tumble from her, fragments of ideas waiting to become articles, columns, books. She is in love with the elsewhere, be it Italy or France, where she has lived for long periods at a time, or Baghdad, where she spent six months as…
I wasn’t surprised when Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney told me that she grew up wearing Laura Ashley. Though I grew up in Michigan more than a decade before Grace, who was born and raised in Virginia Beach, something about her sensibilities has always felt deeply familiar to me. …
When Iris Fen Gillingham arrived at college at 16 years old, it was the first time she had a flush toilet. “I grew up off of the electric grid on a farm in the Catskills. I remember my brother asking why we couldn’t have snacks in the cabinet and my mom answering, “Well, we have a whole garden outside. Go and pick something.” I got to learn what it means to live consciously with the land and I am so grateful for the perspective I have on the basic skills it takes to live,” she says. “It is something that…
Syrian refugees. DACA recipients. Hillary Clinton. These are just a sampling of the trending political subjects you’ll see on any given day in America. They’re also the subjects that documentary filmmaker Kelly Teacher pursued, produced, and directed during her time working on the first-ever video team at Condé Nast’s Teen Vogue.
During that one political election season we’ll never forget, Teen Vogue unveiled their short-lived but impactful series, “Ask A,” to unearth misconceptions about female minorities through intimate interviews. In one video we see Syrian teens muse on what being American means to them. In another, a…
Interview by Michael Mundy
Throughout her career, as an attorney, as a U.S. congressional representative, and now as New York’s 77th lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has championed women’s rights. Her motivations have always been personal: Growing up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Buffalo, she saw her own mother defer her college education and aspirations. She now wants to ensure that all women have access to equal rights and opportunities. Here, she talks to Michael Mundy about the fight for reproductive rights, fair pay, and the next wave of women activists who are changing the political future.
Michael Mundy…