Articles by Kion You
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The EXTRA! Files
Volume 40 of the College Hill Independent marks, strangely enough, our 30th anniversary. Thirty years of Metro reporting, 600 Weeks Reviewed, …
A Socially-Distanced 2020 Census
How Rhode Island is attempting to count every single one of its residents
The United States Census Bureau has historically declared April 1 as a national "Census Day," a time to unite the nation …
Archiving Activism
Creating a collective memory of radicalism in Providence
On the afternoon of Saturday, October 26, a group of educators, students, activists, and community members gathered in a basement room …
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Seeing Korean and American in neither Korea nor America
“Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, …
Week in Civic Engagement
I ONLY SEE ONE RACE: THE HUMAN RACE To understand Woonsocket’s City Council meeting on Monday, September 16, we can begin …
Strike While the Iron is Hot
The Oklahoma Education Association and the fight for a livable wage
On Monday, April 2, an estimated 30,000 Oklahoma public school teachers converged on the Oklahoma Capitol, coinciding with a walkout that …
We & the Sea
Locals respond to an ocean coup
Tim DeCristopher, a founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, stepped on a stool in the middle of the conference room. The …
Losing Ocean in the Ocean State
A fishing industry in crisis
After the rush of summer tourism at Point Judith, a small village home to Rhode Island’s largest fishing fleet, only those …
Shakespeare (In the City)
How theater is bringing Providence schools together
In 2008, Martha Douglas-Osmundson and her 14-year-old daughter traveled to London, excited to immerse themselves in London’s theater scene. They watched …
Wading the In-Between
Constructing Asian Identity in Comme Des Garçons and Get Out
During this year’s Paris Fashion Week, Rei Kawakubo, the 74 year-old Japanese founder of the high fashion clothing brand Comme Des …
The Bearable Lightness of Being
The interworking of sunlight and interior space
I constantly feel a tug away from my home in San Diego toward the translucent confines of my local Carmel Mountain …