Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Author at Longreads

Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet

“Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.”

“Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win.”

“Useful is another mask. It’s the one I have worn the longest. It’s the mask many try on after gifted, after emotional, after too much.”

“How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.”

“When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee.”

“One of the nation’s largest experiments in affordable housing to address chronic homelessness is taking shape outside the city limits.”

“Today, white-nose syndrome is wiping out an entire branch of the bat family tree in America’s Southeastern forests.”

“When he got on a case, Matt was like a dog with a bone. He was not giving up.”

“From the 1960s, baby brokers persuaded often Indigenous Mayan women to give up newborns while kidnappers ‘disappeared’ babies.”

“It’s true that many of Clark’s actions defy logic. In key ways, he never fit the mold of a classic con man.”