Kim Wall: Woman Journalist and Hero, A Reading List

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"Let’s remember Kim Wall by the great journalism she did and the impact she made.

The Guardian

• Asian, queer and dancing defiance: 'Everything we do now is resistance'
• It's not about sex, it's about identity: why furries are unique among fan cultures
• Biohackers push life to the limits with DIY biology
• Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people
• Bearded Villains: 'A beard is not a fad. It’s not fashion. It’s a lifestyle.'
• Too fat for fitness? Not when you're Roz the Diva, a pole dancing queen
• A day with Saira, one of the original topless painted ladies of New York City
• Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood
• This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste – and it's leaking
• VIDEO: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/jul/03/dome-pacific-radioactive-waste-leaking-video
• Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators
• Welcome to Gibtown, the last 'freakshow' town in America
• Fetish lovers begging for freedom: 'Fifty Shades of Grey is our Stonewall moment'

Harper’s

How Cubans deliver culture without internet

https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/the-weekly-package/

Ghost Stories: Idi Amin’s torture chambers

https://harpers.org/blog/2016/12/ghost-stories/

New York Times

Fairy Tale Romances, Real and Staged

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/nyregion/fairy-tale-romances-real-and-staged.html?_r=0

Vice

Inside the Ugandan Mall at the Center of China's East African Investments

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gqzgd/chinatown-syndrome-v23n3

Tour Buses to Sri Lanka's Battlefields

https://www.vice.com/sv/article/kwp39n/tour-buses-to-sri-lankas-battlefields

Foreign Policy

When China’s Feminists Came to Washington

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/25/when-chinas-feminists-came-to-washington-womens-march-feminist-five-activism

The Atlantic

A Tourist in North Korea

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/north-korea-travel-tourism/382101/

Sex and the Law in China: 'The People Will Pull, and the Government Will Follow'

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/06/sex-and-the-law-in-china-the-people-will-pull-and-the-government-will-follow/276610/

TIME

http://time.com/author/kim-wall/

• Iceland Wins Hearts at Euro 2016 as Soccer's Global Underdog
• The Magic Kingdom Meets the Middle Kingdom in Shanghai Disneyland
• Haiti Sees Tourism Promises Fade Amidst Electoral Tensions

Slate - Roads and Kingdoms

Can this Tiny Island Restore Haitian Tourism?

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/haitian-tourism/

Hunting the Hunters

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2014/06/pardhis_help_hunt_india_s_tiger_poachers_these_poor_indian_outcasts_may.html

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Wo die Welt gerade untergeht (Kapitel 1)

http://gfx.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/2015-11-27_Marshallinseln/chapter01.html

Amerikas vergessenes Atommülllager (Kapitel 2)

http://gfx.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/2015-11-27_Marshallinseln/chapter02.html

Libération

Retour à Haiti (4 episodes)

http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/01/12/retour-a-haiti_1425835

La Stampa

L’altra Haiti (4 episodes)

http://www.lastampa.it/2016/01/11/esteri/speciali/l-altra-haiti/laltra-haiti-1suv9JFYlhhQIJVU1OmzwO/pagina.html

South China Morning Post (many links)

http://www.scmp.com/author/kim-wall

The Independent (three stories)

http://www.independent.co.uk/author/kim-wall

Interview on WNYC

The Crumbling, Leaking Radioactive Dome in the Pacific

http://www.wnyc.org/story/crumbling-leaking-radioactive-dome-pacific"

Website

https://kim-wall.com/