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My picks for #sundayread for October 27, 2019:

• I listened to James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and it was even better than the great 2018 film adaptation.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2peZRiX
• When “Not Guilty” Is a Life Sentence
  By @MacMcClelland
• Police Are Trained to Fear
  By Larry Smith @ljsmith3663
  (via @warondumb)
• Flashback: Ten years ago, Birmingham mayor Larry Langford found guilty of bribery, fraud, conspiracy
  #Bham #alpolitics
• Tekashi 6ix9ine: The Rise and Fall of a Hip-Hop Supervillain
  By @StephenWitt
• “You’re gonna kill me!”: Dallas police bodycam footage reveals final minutes of Tony Timpa’s life
  By @CaryAspinwall and @Dave_Boucher1
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Ten years ago, the aftermath of the Larry Langford administration
  #Bham #alpolitics
• The Life and Death of an Instafish
  By Miranda Collinge @Collface
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Dirty farm water is making us sick
  By Elizabeth Shogren @ShogrenE and @SusieNeilson
  (via @GeorgeLakoff)
• Flashback: Ten years ago, Carole Smitherman becomes Birmingham’s first female mayor
  https://itswa.de/2UDEnn #Bham #alpolitics
• Q&A with musical icon @SherylCrow
  By @NatalieWeiner
  (via @sundaylongread)
• How the military handles sexual assault cases behind closed doors
  By @CraigMWhitlock
• Road rage, a bullet to the head — and the frantic effort to save a 4-year-old
  By @JohnWoodrowCox
• Meet the weirdo battling climate change through a strict low-carbon lifestyle.
  By @KateGBlack
  (via @sundaylongread)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: With a touch of cinnamon

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 27 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 20, 2019:

• I tried to listen to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” but it was too complicated. I’ll try again by reading it in book form someday.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/32pIrhU
• In the small town of Lisman, Ala., a quest to be recognized in one of America’s most powerless places
  By Stephanie @McCrummenWaPo
  #alpolitics
• Zora Neale Hurston, maybe the most important American writer to have ever lived
  By @MichaelAdno
  (via @CEWall)
• Flashback: Five years ago, the Dalai Lama visits Birmingham
  #Bham
• From 1980, Death of a Playmate
  By Teresa Carpenter
• John Besh restaurants fostered culture of sexual harassment, 25 women say
  By Brett Anderson @BrettEats
• Flashback: Five years ago, Men’s Health winner Noah Galloway visits “Ellen”
  #Bham
• The Sorrow and the Shame of Accidental Killers
  By Alice Gregory
• The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler
  By @MichaelAdno
• Flashback: Wade on Birmingham: 2009 Runner-Up in Birmingham’s Best!
  #Bham
• The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s
  By @PasteMagazine
• What’s it like for top brass in the military serving under a contrarian commander in chief?
  By @MarkBowdenWrite
  (via @SStossel)
• What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop?
  By @RachelAviv
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Last of the Iron Lungs
  By @TJenningsBrown

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The foot soldiers speak

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 20 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 13, 2019:

• I listened to Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” a powerful, prophetic novel. Read it.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/30UGXuw
• The Hollywood Exec and the Hand Transplant That Changed His Life
  By @MsAmyWallace
• After the carnage: For six Las Vegas teens, a homecoming haunted by a mass shooting
  By @JohnWoodrowCox
• Flashback: I survived a speaker’s worst nightmare! (And you can, too.)
• The Faces of Obamacare
  By @MikeHallTexas
• Death of a Maine dairyman
  By @MaryPols
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 47
  #haiku #poetry
• Book review of “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” by Casey Cep @cncep
  By @MargaretEby
  (via @sundaylongread)
• What happened when Gainesville put its internal emails online with few limits
  By Brad Harper @BradMGM
• Flashback: Ten years ago, the trial of Birmingham mayor Larry Langford begins.
  #Bham #alpolitics
• How to Save a Loggerhead: Behind the scenes at @SCAquarium’s Sea Turtle Care Center
  By @JustinHeckert
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Trees Are Key to Fighting Urban Heat — But Cities Keep Losing Them
  By @Meg_Anders on, @NoraEckert and Sean McMinn @shmcminn
• Would you give up air conditioning to fight climate change?
  By @StephenBuranyi
  (via @chloejbenoist)
• Obama read nearly 30,000 letters — 10 a day — from ordinary people
  By Jeanne Marie Laskas @jmlaskas

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Battling bands

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 13 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 6, 2019:

• Flashback: Wade on Birmingham’s Fourth Anniversary
• Riding OD Road
  By @RichELord
• The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Wreaks Havoc and Ruins Lives
  By @LizWeil
• Flashback: Five years ago, comparing travel schedules of Birmingham mayor William Bell and President Obama
  https://itswa.de/1vLwblU #Bham #alpolitics
• Dying Gasp of One Local Newspaper
  By @RichardFausset
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Journalists on “aha!” moments that changed the way they work
  By @MatthewKassel
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Celebrating the Wade on Birmingham 9th anniversary with nine #haiku
• The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy
  By Kayleigh Donaldson @Ceilidhann
• Welcome to Lower Duck Pond, a fake town of 82,000 people
  By @CianMaher0
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: SouthWired presentation: Slides from “Content Curation for Smarties”
• Building a Mystery: An Oral History of Lilith Fair
  Compiled by Jessica Hopper @jesshopp with @SashaGeffen and @JennPelly
• The Making of an American Nazi
  By @LukeOBrien
• The Making of a Mexican American Dream
  By @SarahMenkedick
• How the Most Satisfied Couples Balance Sex and Power
  By @HaraMarano

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Banks, bikes and Backstreet Boys

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 6 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 29, 2019:

• I listened to “Frankenstein,” all credit to young Mary Shelley for her genius and her creativity.
  https://buff.ly/2nUW5u4
• Chika’s story: A fight to cure the incurable
  By @MitchAlbom
• Gunfire on a South Carolina school playground still haunts the first graders who survived
  By @JohnWoodrowCox and @ChrisAlcantara
• Nobody Would Have Been Surprised If I Had Died
  By @KatherineFugate
• Becoming an American in the Age of Trump
  By Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
• How women became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization
  By @JiaTolentino
  (via @sundaylongread)
• 44 years. 41 sexual abuse allegations. How the past caught up to a former Olympian.
  By @MikeSKessler and Mark Fainaru-Wada @markfwespn
  (via @sundaylongread)
• .@RollingStone feature on @TaylorSwift13
  By Brian Hiatt @hiattb
• The Em Dash Divides: Why do people care so much about a piece of — no offense — punctuation?
  By Kate Mooney @yatinbrooklyn
• A teen girl posed for 8 years as married man to write about baseball and harass women.
  By @LindseyAdler
• Black motherhood on TV has never been so nuanced
  By Kellee Terrell @kelleent
• If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? (an excerpt from “Rebooting AI”)
  By @GaryMarcus and Ernest Davis
  (via @@nxthompson)
• The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS
  By Luke Mogelson
• .@Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time
  By @MaureenOCo nnor

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Why not us?

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 29 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 22, 2019:

• I listened to @Prof_ErikaLee’s “The Making of Asian America: A History,” a good starter on Asians in America from the 1500s till today.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Ob2lZA
• The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea
  By Evan Osnos @eosnos
• The Prisoner: A question of justice. And mercy.
  By @SkipHol landsworth
• How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary
  By @RachelAviv
• What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity
  By @JayCaspianKang
• Fire on the Mountain: A night of terror in Gatlinburg
  By @JustinHeckert
• Flashback: WordCamp Birmingham: Slides from Ethical blogging
• There Are Places You Cannot Go
  By Brent Crane @bcamcrane
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Trump is a voracious reader of newspapers, magazines and printouts of online articles.
  By Daniel Lippman @dlippman
  (via @sundaylongread)
• David Simon’s Vision of America
  By Alan @Sepinwall
• How Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann’s “SportsCenter” Changed TV Forever
  By @BryanCurtis
• Victims, Families and America’s Thirst for True-Crime Stories
  By @BrittKPeterson
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does?
  By Michael Lewis
• .@GQMagazine profile of John @Mulaney
  By @JonahWeiner

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The dollar tour

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 22 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 15, 2019:

• I listened to Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” an interesting look at 19th-century Russian society but didn’t really grab me.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2LVL9ou
• .@AlanDersh owitz, Devil’s Advocate
  By Connie Bruck
  (via @sundaylongread)
• When the Revolution Came for @AmyJCuddy
  By @SusanDominus
• Flashback: Goals for business blogging
• Transforming Birmingham with Feminist Books
  By Rose Norman
  #Bham
• “Did fire come to Paradise or did Paradise go to the fire?”
  By @Arax_Mark
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Gibberish
• The Adopted Black Baby, and the White One Who Replaced Her
  By John Eligon @jeligon
• Raising a Teenage Daughter
  By Elizabeth Weil @LizWeil
• Flashback: Why WordPress is my favorite blogging software
• .@RollingStone profile of pop star @BillieEilish
  By @JoshEells
  (via @sundaylongread)
• What Bullets Do to Bodies
  By Jason Fagone @jfagone
• The graffiti kids who sparked the Syrian war
  By @MarkMacKinnon
• “Car Talk’s” Long Goodbye
  By @ErikShilling

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: In search of …

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 15 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for September 8, 2019:

• I listened to “The Sun Does Shine”: Anthony Ray Hinton’s compelling story shows the best — and worst — of this godforsaken state.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2UAsu5c
• A Home Health Aide: On the Job, 24 Hours a Day, 27 Days a Month
  By Andy Newman @andylocal
• Natalia Kanem @Atayeshe, a Woman’s Voice for Women at UN Agency for Reproductive Rights
  By @RickGladstone
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: From 2009, 30 Twitter tips hath September
• Is the Secret to Success … Faking It? On re-marriage and beating the averages.
  By @MichaelNGraff
• How the Media Fell Short on Jeffrey Epstein
  By @DavidFolkenflik
• Flashback: Why curation? Master the tsunami of information.
• Driven to the end: Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin could do it all. Until it all became too much.
  By @KentBabb
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Culture Is Changing, With Feminist Cheese
  By @AlexandraJacobs
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Watch With Wade: Happy trails, “King of the Hill”
• Oh we almost had a book from Prince …
  By Dan Piepenbring
  (via @stevesilberman)
• The spy with no name
  By @JeffMaysh
• Dirty John, a six-part series
  By @LATChrisGoffard
• On the Midway With the Carnival Game Investigators Out to Protect Your Fun
  By @JessicaHester

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Burlesque, bikes and bears
• Happy Labor Day!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 8 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: A cowboy explains Labor Day.

Happy Labor Day!

Photo: Maya Aleshkevich (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for September 1, 2019:

• Flashback: 5 years ago, I gave up watching football for good.
• PPE, the Oxford degree that runs Britain
  By Andy Beckett
• Listened to @MargaretAtwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”: Claire Danes’ narration was excellent, though I kept picturing Offred as Angela Chase.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2ZGHzmX
• Frankenstein at 200: Why hasn’t Mary Shelley been given the respect she deserves?
  By @FionaRSampson
• What Students Gain From Learning Ethics in School
  By @LindaFlanagan2
  (RT @amandacdykes)
• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?
  By @Wesley_Morris
  (via @emilynussbaum)
• Flashback: I’d rather spend a day blogging
• Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own.
  By @JackieMroz
• Busted: Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the faulty results of a $2 roadside drug test
  By @RyanGabrielson and Topher Sanders @ReporterTopher
  (via @Cory_Dowd)
• Happy 50th! How “Sesame Street” Started a Musical Revolution
  By @MelenaR yzik

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Summer’s end

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 1 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 25, 2019:

• Another re-reading of “Getting Things Done” by David Allen @gtdguy: A great time for a refresher in this complex time-management system.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/33Tz2An
• Nightmares at 0 and 30,000 Feet: Paying a Price for 8 Days of Flying in America
  By @SarahLyall
• Bussed out: How America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
  From The @Guardian
  (via @ForBeginners)
• Writers: Stop reading, start writing.
• How Do You Publish the Work of a Scientific Villain?
  By @MeganMolteni
  (via @EmilyDreyfuss)
• What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now
  By @SalmanRushdie
• I listened to “Lean In,” by @SherylSandberg: My involuntary eye-rolling prevented me from getting all that I could out of this modern feminist guide.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2HmLWND
• What Happened When I Tried to Cut the Negative People Out of My Life
  By @MichaelNGraff
• Beyond Boko Haram’s Reach, Love and Feminism Flourish
  By @DionneSearcey
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 14
  #haiku #poetry
• Miles Morales, Jar Jar Binks, Carmela Soprano: The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years
  From @Slate
• 2°C: Beyond the Limit: Extreme climate change has arrived in America
  By @StevenMufson, @ChrisCMooney, Juliet @Eilperin and @JohnMuyskens
• Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Kids to Scam Need-Based College Financial Aid
  By @JodiSCohen and Melissa Sanchez @msanchezMIA
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Scarface of Sex: The Millionaire Playboy Who Murdered His Way to the Top of Porn
  By @JeffMaysh

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Zoo bisou bisou

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 25 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 18, 2019:

• I listened to “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha” by Stephen Mitchell. The path to enlightenment is neither straight nor rational — it just is.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/31K7SKk
• How to make millions selling passports to Africa
  By @DG_Lewis and @PhilEngels
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Whatever happened to Villanova basketball star Shelly Pennefather?
  By Elizabeth Merrill @MerrillLiz
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 5 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 32
• Interview with @TinaBrownLM
  By @EmmaBrockes
  (via @jules_margo)
• Banksy goes to Bethlehem
  By Jan Dalley
  (RT @Garigalicious)
• I listened to “Pride and Prejudice.” Taking in Jane Austen’s singular wit … enh.
  https://buff.ly/2KO0Qxg
• What we watched on TV in 1999
  From @TheAVClub
• How we stopped counting calories and learned to love Spindrift
  By Rachel Sugar @rtsugar
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: WordCamp Birmingham 2014: a look back
  #Bham
• The Incredible True Story “Titanic” the Movie
  By Sarah Marshall @Remember_Sarah
  (via @AGirlReporter)
• Big Alcohol is pouring billions into weed drinks, but does anybody want them?
  By @MsAmandaLewis
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Strange Political Ascent of @Alyssa_Milano
  By Joan Summers @joaniesucks
• The @Esquire profile of Mr. Rogers
  By @TomJunod

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Miserably hot and humid

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 18 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 11, 2019:

• Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 50
• Lord, give me the confidence (and job prospects) of a mediocre white guy.
  By Laura Wagner @laurawags
• America’s New Religion: Fox Evangelicalism
  By @SullivanAmy
• I listened to “We Should All Be Feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a nice direct tract on the virtues of feminism.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/31t5APA
• Learn From the Mistakes of One Entrepreneur’s Journey
  By @JohnRampton
  (via @neoteryx)
• The Death of American Universities
  By Noam Chomsky
  (via @LeftDemocrat)
• Flashback: WordCamp Birmingham presentation: The Super Easy Guide to Video for Content Marketing
• The Final Flight of Martin McNally
  By Danny Wicentowski @D_Towski
  (via @nelson_aj)
• The Video Game Industry Can’t Go on Like This
  By Joshua Rivera @jmrivera02
• Flashback: 10 years ago today, Ludacris called the Birmingham Heritage Festival “bogus.” Then, it shut down.
• RomCon: Our Failure to See Black Romantic Comedies
  By @SorayaRoberts
• Psychologists Want in on Social Media’s Big Data Trove
  By Adam Rogers @jetjocko
  (via @b3msinc)
• 76 billion opioid pills: Newly released federal data unmasks the epidemic
  By @ScottHigham1
• Can Reading Make You Happier?
  By Ceridwen Dovey

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The unseen buck

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 11 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for August 4, 2019:

• Flashback: 10 years ago, my popular monthlong series Birmingham’s Biggest Crooks
  http://itswa.de/BMdHl #Bham #alpolitics
• How a reporting mistake nearly derailed the Watergate investigation — and how journalists recovered
  By Jon Marshall @marshallreport
  (via @bvar)
• The compassion deficit
  By @ErinAnderssen
• I listened to “The Effective Executive” by Peter Drucker, a great help for beginning leaders and executives, and good stuff for us old timers.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2KbUfO7
• The Cost of Reading
  By Ayşegül Savaş
  (via @mariskreizman)
• 15 Famous Books That Were Initially Rejected
  By @JessicaAFerri
  (via @nadaparatuitear)
• Flashback: Brands and Twitter: The limits of following
• The Story Behind Your Email Marketing Metrics
  By @THAT_Agency
  (via @FitSmallBiz)
• After the Tsunami
  By @Matthew_Komatsu
• Flashback: Adding video easily into WordPress posts (and pages)
• Book review of “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution” by @EmilyNussbaum
  By @Annalisa_Quinn
• Out of Toon: Political cartoonists in an age of hyper media
  By @SorayaRoberts
  (via @MarsiasMarsias)
• The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves
  By Jessica Pressler @jpressler
• Profile of my fellow Alabama 5,000+ poem writer, Charles Ghigna @FatherGooze
  By Michelle Matthews @Michelle_Mobile

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Up in the Ham

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for August 4 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 28, 2019:

• I listened to “Practicing the Power of Now” by @EckhartTolle, a short helpful refresher in mindfulness.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2K1EtUD
• Generation Screwed: Why Millennials face the scariest financial future since the Great Depression
  By Michael Hobbes @RottenInDenmark
  (via @kaybigs)
• The Case of @AlFranken
  By @JaneMayerNYer
• Flashback: RIP Jefferson County, 1819-2009
  #Bham #alpolitics
• Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
  By Charlotte Lieberman @clieberwoman
• Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now
  By @EricLevitz
  (via @KarinDianeRyan)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Bloggers share lessons from 2014 conference
• How a memo from @GirlScouts on hugging opened a debate on consent for families
  By @ZosiaBielski
• The Lazy River
  By Zadie Smith
  (via @CDWP_UCalgary)
• Flashback: Slides for “Market the Right Way with Facebook and Twitter”
• Q&A with @EmilyNussbaum, TV critic and author of the new book, “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution”
  By @MattZollerSeitz
• .@TilmanJFertitta, the Two-Billion-Dollar Buyer in the Most Expensive Deal in US Sports History
  By Michael Hardy @mkerrhardy
• On coming out as trans in Donald Trump’s America
  By Emily VanDerWerff @tvoti
• These Are Your Memories: A letter to author @KieseLaymon from his mama

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Out and about

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 28 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me