Look Out, World! We’re Reemerging!
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We’re excited to announce that The Development Set, along with our sister publication Bright, will relaunch in just a few weeks as BRIGHT Magazine, a digital publication that will explore education, global health, international development, and social impact in the style that brought you to us in the first place.
Since we dipped out in July, we at Honeyguide Media (the nonprofit that publishes BRIGHT) have been hard at work sharpening our reason for being. We’re still out here reinventing storytelling about social issues — we’re just mutating the “how” a bit. We’re combining our publications into a fresh new BRIGHT Magazine; we’ve added a new global headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya; we’ve hired two wonderful new people, Abigail Higgins as our BRIGHT editor and Helina Selemon as our engagement editor; we’ve been going to festivals, meeting new artists and writers, and connecting with curious socially-minded humans who want to see a step change in how “marginalized populations” are covered in the media; and we’ve been using reams of Post-it notes to conceptualize just how bright BRIGHT can be.
The result? You’ll see at the end of October. Our first theme is “calamity,” and we hope to cover it in the same intimate, creative, solutions-oriented style that you’ve come to know and love. Please subscribe to our new newsletter to continue to be an integral part of our BRIGHT family. [We will be discontinuing this newsletter soon.]
(And if there’s anything you’d like to see in the relaunched publication — or see us leave behind — please drop us a line at hello@honeyguidemedia.org! We exist for you, and want to make sure you love our new magazine as much as we do.)
In the meantime, here are a few great pieces from our archives to check out if you haven’t already:
In Deep Red America, The Rise of the Abortion Doula
By Debbie Weingarten in The Development Set
“Just as a laboring patient needs emotional and physical support in the delivery process, women accessing abortion care also need the same support.”
The Classrooms Hidden in Mumbai’s Seams
By Ankita Rao in Bright
“Community members, activists, and educators have carved out classrooms between the hidden folds and seams of the city. They offer safe and regular learning spaces to students who can easily fall throughout the gaps. Some you have to literally climb into to access, while others are built on wheels. For thousands of students across Mumbai, these classrooms have become tiny oases, a place to call their own for a few hours every day.”
Monopolies Are Killing America
By Ross Baird and Ben Wrobel in The Development Set
“While, at first glance, America has become more free for women, people of color, and others who weren’t landed gentry in 1776, I’d argue that thanks to monopolies, American freedom is quickly in decline — and because of the unchecked power of big enterprise, we’re on the road to serfdom. It’s never been better to be a big company in America, but it has rarely been a worse time to be an entrepreneur.”
How Seattle Got Its (Arts) Groove Back
By Robyn Jordan in Bright
A Group Therapy Session for Refugees: A Screenplay
By Stav Dimitropoulos in The Development Set
Syrians in Greece fight the lonely trauma of war by talking in a group with Roula Michati, a psychiatrist who herself is a refugee.
Kids With a 3.1 GPA: It’s an Honor to Write a College Recommendation Letter For You
By Anonymous in Bright
“You might want to see some of the ways I describe students like you to college admissions officers: fiercely creative, independent, the opposite of “doing school,” original, citizen of his community, would hire her in a minute, passionate learner.”
We’ll be live in a few short weeks. Join us as it all comes together!
Signing off with love, purpose, and light.
— Sarika Bansal, Founder, Honeyguide Media; Editor-in-Chief, BRIGHT
