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Rahawa Haile
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahawa Haile; Hannah Dreier; Rukmini Callimachi; Mary Anne Mohanraj, Keah Brown, S. Bear Bergman, Matthew Salesses, and Kiese Laymon; and Molly Fitzpatrick.
Posted inCommentary, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How Black Panther Asks Us to Examine Who We Are To One Another
Rahawa Haile considers how, by sliding between the real and unreal, Black Panther frees us to imagine the possibilities — and the limitations — of an Africa that does not yet exist.
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Women of Color Are Blazing New Paths on Old Trails
Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.
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Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone
In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Carrying the Weight of Black Experience — and Literature — Along the Appalachian Trail
Rahawa Haile writes about hiking over 2000 miles on the Appalachian Trail in 2016, and carrying with her books by black authors, which she’d leave behind for others to find at shelters along the way.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re highlighting stories by Luke Mogelson, David Frum, Matthew Shaer, Rahawa Haile, and Meghan Tear Plummer.
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How Black Books Lit My Way Along The Appalachian Trail
Eritrean-American essayist and short story writer Rahawa Haile writes about hiking the Appalachian Trail and traveling through trail towns as a black woman alone. She brings along books by black authors and leaves them behind for others to find at shelters along the way. In keeping with her 2015 Short Story of the Day effort […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On Being Eritrean
In her essay in Pacific Standard, Rahawa Haile writes about identity, the anxiety of origins, and the search for a grounded life in unstable, isolating locales. Born to Eritrean parents, Haile grew up in Miami, Florida, speaking English and Tigrinya in a low land of built of hurricane deposits that felt doomed to rising sea levels. […]