<![CDATA[Stories by Michelle Legro on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@michellelegro?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/2*vQ-_uJpuo_-rirZgyl7ifA.jpeg Stories by Michelle Legro on Medium https://medium.com/@michellelegro?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 Medium Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:52:33 GMT <![CDATA[‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Got Me Through 2020]]>

The Gang’s chaos agents helped me understand what the hell just happened

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]]> https://gen.medium.com/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-got-me-through-2020-a6d1f8f1c41e?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/a6d1f8f1c41e Mon, 28 Dec 2020 06:32:30 GMT 2020-12-28T06:32:30.953Z <![CDATA[Welcome to Atlanta, Where the Viral Internet Is Born]]>

Black creators make the viral hits, but struggle to command the same attention and money as White creators in Los Angeles

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]]> https://momentum.medium.com/welcome-to-atlanta-where-the-viral-internet-is-born-56bc446bfd51?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/56bc446bfd51 Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:32:57 GMT 2020-12-23T06:32:57.671Z <![CDATA[A Few Statistics on the Extreme Whiteness of the Book Industry]]>

‘We were shocked by the extent of the inequality once we analyzed the data’

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]]> https://momentum.medium.com/a-few-statistics-on-the-extreme-whiteness-of-the-book-industry-5648a19b0c19?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/5648a19b0c19 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:32:55 GMT 2021-01-03T22:49:15.868Z <![CDATA[Baltimore’s Progressive Black Millennial Mayor Is Ready to Work]]>

Brandon Scott is the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century

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]]> https://momentum.medium.com/baltimores-progressive-black-millennial-mayor-is-ready-to-work-79307d597708?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/79307d597708 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 06:31:53 GMT 2020-12-09T14:57:55.629Z <![CDATA[2020 may have been the worst for almost everything, but it was a great time for new words.]]> https://michellelegro.medium.com/2020-may-have-been-the-worst-for-almost-everything-but-it-was-a-great-time-for-new-words-faf7d81c697f?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/faf7d81c697f Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:16:06 GMT 2020-12-08T17:16:06.628Z 2020 may have been the worst for almost everything, but it was a great time for new words. Trapped at home, our brains buzzing, turns out to be a great crucible for word creation, explains Ben Zimmer. 2020 took away a lot, but it gave us doomscrolling, covidiots, quarantinis and much, much more.

From “Covidiot” to “Gleefreshing,” It Was a Lively Year for Word Creation

]]> <![CDATA[Who Was Book Expo For, Anyway?]]> https://michellelegro.medium.com/who-was-book-expo-for-anyway-99e10abce005?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/99e10abce005 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:45:49 GMT 2020-12-01T17:49:16.312Z At least we all got some nice tote bags

Want to feel a million years old? The last time I went to Book Expo, the largest trade show for the book industry in North America, the “Big Six” still existed. Then six became five, and very soon five will become four, with the merger of Penguin Random Schuster House. And Book Expo itself is now kaput, as the show’s organizer announced it would not be held in 2021, or in the foreseeable future.

Back in 2012, Emily Gould set off to the Javits Center for The Awl to investigate just what this spectacle of books was really about. Ah, to be so innocent in 2012! Back when our biggest worries were e-books and Amazon singles and iPad readers. Still, the stakes seemed to be, moderately high? “There is a lot of desperation here,” one of the attendees explains.

Four Hours in the Totebag Capital of the World

]]> <![CDATA[Trump’s lawyers seem like they’re not super great at this law stuff.]]>

The process of lawyering has potentially powerful effects on one’s conscience and character. To be someone’s lawyer — especially a…

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]]> https://gen.medium.com/trumps-lawyers-seem-like-they-re-not-super-great-at-this-law-stuff-63335b17967b?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/63335b17967b Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:16:16 GMT 2020-11-24T16:01:22.916Z <![CDATA[“I accepted the lack of mirroring in my magazines as something that would not change, so best not…]]> https://michellelegro.medium.com/i-accepted-the-lack-of-mirroring-in-my-magazines-as-something-that-would-not-change-so-best-not-594894b3d02d?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/594894b3d02d Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:26:33 GMT 2020-11-22T15:26:33.407Z “I accepted the lack of mirroring in my magazines as something that would not change, so best not to be too upset. Even if that’s how I felt inside.”

Ashley C. Ford has long been obsessed with teen magazines. She would buy them with her allowance from her grandma, hoping that one day he would see herself reflected in them. She was always disappointed but tried not to let her disappointment show.

Now she collects these 1990s-era magazines—Seventeen, YM, Teen People, even the Delia’s catalog—and she’s finally in possession of her Holy Grail, the August 1998 issue of Seventeen with Drew Barrymore on the cover, promoting her iconic girl-power twist on Cinderella, Ever After.

What Did ‘Seventeen’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Do To Me?

]]> <![CDATA[Twitter will transfer the POTUS handle to Joe Biden on January 20, no matter what.]]>

Joe Biden’s personal Twitter has 19.3 million followers, so the POTUS handle will bump his following. Barack Obama currently has 126.5…

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]]> https://gen.medium.com/twitter-will-transfer-the-potus-handle-to-joe-biden-on-january-20-no-matter-what-e6308e0dd1fe?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/e6308e0dd1fe Sat, 21 Nov 2020 02:08:55 GMT 2020-11-23T14:43:15.341Z <![CDATA[We’re a household with One Big Bowl.]]> https://michellelegro.medium.com/were-a-household-with-one-big-bowl-133d1f5ccf0d?source=rss-f1d00a1c632------2 https://medium.com/p/133d1f5ccf0d Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:42:04 GMT 2020-11-19T15:42:04.351Z We’re a household with One Big Bowl. The Bowl is stainless steel, nothing fancy, and gets used at least twice a day, for morning yogurt and evening yogurt. I can’t even get the Bowl into the dishwasher before it needs to be used again. The Bowl needs to be lovingly hand-washed, preferably right away. It is the bowl to rule them all.

Maya Kosoff explains the culture of having One Big Bowl and recommends the best ones for your lifestyle. I am now rethinking if this bowl we have is even large enough. Should we go….larger? Should we invest in TWO big bowls? I mean, the sky’s the limit!

May I Recommend Buying An Enormous Mixing Bowl?

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