Continuing with our series of “Best of 2017″ lists curated by the entire CCM-Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at Entropy, as well as nominations from our readers.
This list brings together some of our favorite online articles & essays published in 2017.
In no particular order…
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Blue Capitalism by Maya Weeks (Guts Magazine)
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Business Feminism by Stephanie Young (LARB)
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What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About by Michele Filgate (Longreads)
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You Are White, They Think by Natasha Moni (Entropy)
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Returning to My Father’s Koreatown by Margaret Rhee (on she goes)
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Ten Kind Suggestions for Being a Literary Citizen by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo (Women Who Submit)
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Dear Benny: On Persistence & Our Capacity to Live by Janice Lee (Fanzine)
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A Refuge for Jae-In Doe by Seo-Young Chu (Entropy)
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How To Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, other Important Lessons by Rachel Hoge (Longreads)
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The Trash Heap Has Spoken by Carmen Maria Machado (Guernica)
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I Lift My Lamp by Peter Trachtenberg (Scoundrel Time)
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Robert E. Lee High School: race, and segregation in Tyler: a 130-year timeline by Lee Hancock (Tyler Loop)
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In The Shadow of a Fairy Tale by Leslie Jamison (NY Times)
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Notes on the Speculative Present by Madeline Lane-McKinley (Blind Field: A Journey of Cultural Inquiry)
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The Feels of Love by T. Kira Madden (Guernica)
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The Personal Essay Isn’t Dead. It’s Just No Longer White by Soraya Roberts (The Walrus)
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What I Don’t Tell My Students About ‘The Husband Stitch’ by Jane Dykema (Electric Literature)
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The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA by Aisha Sabatini Sloan (Literary Hub)
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Why We Must Believe Women: My Family’s Legacy of Violence and Murder by Chelsea Bieker (Catapult)
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The sea was never blue by Maria Michela Sassi (Aeon)