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Yeast, Water, and a Dash of Crisis: How a NYC bakery manager navigated the pandemic

December 12, 2021 by Kristina Handy

Photo posted by @shewolfbakery on Instagram

In the autumn of 2020, Sarah Vitale, the bakery manager at She Wolf Bakery, would arrive at work at around five or six in the morning. She jump-started the day with an array of tasks, reviewing the orders put in by the bakery’s wholesale customers, checking inventory, and shaping baguettes in the kitchen. Each workday […]

Filed Under: COVID-19 Pandemic, Uncategorized Tagged With: bakery, food, mental health, NYC, pandemic

‘Hustle Culture’ Brings Faster Burnout

June 24, 2021 by Ali Garvin

We are obsessed with the hustle. We glorify the grinders and the go-getters; those who work 70-hour weeks, pull all-nighters, have 4 a.m. wake-up times, and manage to run a side business all the while. There’s a troubling phenomenon in our schools and workplaces right now that worships unhealthy behaviors supposedly linked to success. It […]

Filed Under: COVID-19 Pandemic Tagged With: college, COVID-19, culture, mental health, work

Constant bad news for Black America is taking a toll

September 22, 2020 by Vanessa Handy

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What is Blackness: Who owns it?  Cassi Quayson,19, a Ghanian-American writer studying “Language and Liberation” at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study muses on these questions.  She’s often caught up with innermost examinations of Black life while the rest of the world watches. In 2020’s cataclysm of the coronavirus pandemic and pervasive racial injustice, it’s […]

Filed Under: Social Justice, The Word Tagged With: bad news, black America, Black Lives Matter, mental health

Mental Health Crisis Unfolds Alongside Coronavirus Pandemic

May 13, 2020 by Kala Herh

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Photo taken by Dan Meyers. Lying on the grass outside her childhood home, Helena Federman shielded the sun’s rays with one hand as the other pressed her phone to her ear. On the other end of the call was her therapist, Jamie Olken, from her home office in the Upper East Side. At 1 p.m. […]

Filed Under: COVID-19 Pandemic Tagged With: COVID-19, mental health

The Reality of the Emotional Support Animal System

December 13, 2018 by Faith Marnecheck

Photo Courtesy of Noah Defranceschi. Chai, Noah Defranceschi’s emotional support animal, lays in his bed in Defranceschi’s dorm room.

Noah DeFranceschi has hay and chewed-up cardboard under his dorm bed. When he buys items, he leaves the boxes on the floor if they do not have too much tape or ink on them. This habitat below his bed is for his emotional support animal (ESA), Chai, a brown and white bunny who loves to […]

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