8. Best community-sourced
Coming Home With the Matador Community, by Nick Rowlands.
We asked the Matador community to send in a photo and caption that encapsulated how they felt about “home”, and were blown away by the quality of the responses, which were by turns heart-warming, poignant, and philosophical.
9. Most thought-provoking
On the Front Porch With a Gun, Waiting for the Black People to Come, by Leigh Shulman.
One of my all time favorites on Matador, this article talks about the dangers of both negative and positive stereotyping of people, and kicked off an interesting discussion that touched on statistics, fear, stereotypes, and compartmentalized thinking.
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Definitions of Modesty: Bikinis at the Supermarket, Burkinis at the Pool, by Heather Carreiro.
In response to Leigh’s article on The Most Obscene Debate on the Internet, Heather wrote a great piece arguing that no culture has the right to define modesty, nudity or “freedom” for anyone else, and that to do so is another face of cultural imperialism.