The Archive
Six Men Spotted at the Glen Park Roller Rink and Rec Center
ROB It is hard to avoid looking at one another on the rink because you’re in a circle: somebody’s always following …
Tourist Trap
Geosure tries to build a safer world—but for whom?
I open Geosure and the map populates with nearby scores. There’s a lot of green, implying “low risk.” One of the …
Week in (Mis)communication
LMS for Salvation Pope Francis wants you to know he’s not a regular pope, he’s a cool pope. With the recent …
Dear Indy...
I want love but not sex. Help. I know it's a thing, but I don't know how to deal with it! …
How Libraries Adapt
American public libraries and the aura of collective interface
In its 2018 and 2019 budget proposals, the Trump administration attempted to cut government funding for the Institute for Museum and …
Striking a Deal
LA teachers push for a more equitable public school system
Standing on the front steps of LA City Hall, Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), shouted into …
Do I Know You?
Bryan Singer, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and brushing up on your history
The most erotic film I’ve ever seen was made in 1950. It’s a silent French film that lasts all of twenty-six …
Civic Disobedience
A class-action lawsuit in Rhode Island advocates for civics education
In 2015, only 23 percent of eighth graders in the United States demonstrated proficiency in civics, according to a national assessment …
Week in Closing Time
Going O’Naturel Imagine this: a spacious, vibrant dining hall fills with an ensemble of chattering individuals in minimal dress. The guests, …
What I Learned At Home
The Snakes The garden snakes in New England are harmless. The first one I saw was dead and on our driveway. …
Plugging the Drain
Getting Millennials to "#ChooseRI"
Rhode Island is worried about its size, and for good reason. Absent a mass migration to the Ocean State before the …
Misreadings and Misgivings
Understanding the Venezuelan presidential crisis
It was a sight to behold. On January 23, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to denounce the …
The Ex-Machina Fallacy
How randomness separates us from AI
The screen lights up with a new text message from Scott, a professor at the University of Texas: How many legs …
"Solving" Translation
Women's labor on the page
“In Urdu, the only language she knew, all things, not just living things but all things—carpets, clothes, books, pens, musical instruments—had …
A Second Latin Boom
Echoes and potential in a new aesthetic movement
Sometime in the mid 20th century, a series of novels in translation about the Yoknapatawpha County, William Faulkner’s microcosm of the …
All In
Rhode Island legalizes sports betting
Ronny first came to what is now Twin Rivers Casino in Lincoln, RI—then a race track called Lincoln Downs—when he was …
State of Affairs
Protests build momentum in Sudan and France
Media outlets largely focus on specific moments in time, framing events as singular instances while often ignoring their historical and political …
Dirty Funding
Warren B. Kanders at the Whitney Museum and Brown University
On December 9, 2018, Hyperallergic, an online arts magazine, posted an image of four members of the Fire Department of New …
Quilting the Statehouse
The Womxn Project organizes for the Reproductive Health Care Act
On the marble steps inside a packed Rhode Island State House on Tuesday, hundreds of protesters competed for legislative attention as …
Week in Digital Drama
"Facebook gains nothing from this meme" If you haven’t deactivated your social media accounts out of fear of breaches in privacy, …
Genetically Pleasing
He Jiankui, CRISPR, and the politics of the human genome
At the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in Hong Kong on November 27-29, 2018, the room is buzzing …
Three Poems
new interior for a hallmark birthday card hornet wound i weep your memory accounting for sapphire-stained rungs in the ladder though …
Two Poems
Paliochori Mentions this only as strange ordeal, her translation resisting delivery—vegetable state and we’ll see no more of Tsalia, Damia, Disekia, …
Selling Out
Mayor Elorza's plan to privatize the Providence water supply board
The story of the Scituate Reservoir holds its own in the annals of Rhode Island history. A gruesome tale of eminent …
Cooling Off
The first time I’m at their house, the notes of the ice cream truck erase the quiet haze of the summer …
Best Rhode Island Tweets of 2018
An Indy Listicle
We never thought the day would come either. At the Indy, we pride ourselves on maintaining the kind of long-form, Leftist, …
Apocrypha
the ground breaks too so please tell me my name even if my fullmouth stings of feathers the loudest thing the …
Crisis of confidence
Individual accountability and collective reconciliation
This article is the fifth installment of a month-long series, “Through the Muck,” tackling climate change in Rhode Island. Climate change …
Simulated Bodies
How virtual physicalities are changing the landscape of medical education
Medicine is intimate. Beginning from our very first breath, most likely taken inside a hospital room under the watchful eye of …
Top Down
An examination of the tradition of half-staff
Mark Barnes, Chief Property Manager of the Rhode Island Capitol Campus, might get the email from the Governor’s Office at 3:00 …
Week in Compassionate Capitalism
STEM or: HOW GIRL SCOUTS LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB content warning: military violence At last month’s Macy’s …
Freedom for Whom?
The reflexive photographs of Danny Lyon and the stakes of critical curation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Sit-In, Atlanta, 1963 Who’s the real Danny Lyon? The year was 1969 and Lyon was an …