In a rapidly changing world, the work of the home has been revealed for how challenging it is. Gender inequality in housework has also been exposed more than ever. Does it make any sense to say, through action or words: “Dear woman, you have been living under the global threat of the patriarchy from before
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Photography By Milton Lindsay Rich and Creamy By Alexandra W. Jones Vegan cheesemonger Steve Babaki knows the secret to making plant-based cheese taste like the real thing. Time. “If you just give it the time, it can taste so similar,” he says. The Conscious Cultures Creamery owner describes himself as 99.9% vegan (he occasionally nibbles
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Photography by Drew Dennis By Constance Garcia-Barrio On Saturday, June 6, I donned eleke beads, which represent different angels in the Yoruba religion, a sister tradition to Vodun, and prayed for protection before I left home for the George Floyd protest at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With my 73 years and two prosthetic hips,
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Photography By KayCee Garringer By Aaron Salsbury Q&A Interview with Nathaniel Ross, local metal-worker who commissioned the murals You’re a West Philadelphia resident and also have a workshop in the neighborhood. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you love the neighborhood? I’m a Delco kid, and I couldn’t wait to
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Photograph courtesy of Unsplash.com By: Maddie Clark Much of the United States is wary and quite uncertain of what it would actually mean to defund the police. But according to Nicholas O’Rourke, organizing director of Philadelphia’s Working Families Party: “It’s less about harming the police and more about investing in our community.” His party, which
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Photography By Rachael Warriner Bulking Up By Nic Esposito When Pennsylvania ordered its citizens to start socially distancing in mid-March, one West Philadelphia resident formed a wholesale buying club as a way to keep friends and neighbors connected in the midst of the chaos. The founder of the Pandemic Pantry, who prefers not to be
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Photograph Courtesy of Unsplash.com Should Businesses Allow Voting on the Company Dime? By: Jaclyn Zeal There’s a growing movement of businesses recognizing their role in empowering their employees to participate on election day. It’s no secret that large swaths of the voting-age population do not turn out to the polls. In 2018, only 51% of
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By Meredith Jones Grid has received a number of inquiries from readers interested in combating systemic racism who are looking for lists of local black-owned businesses they can support in their daily lives. As a jumping-off point, we have started a list of vegan businesses with black or bi-racial ownership that we hope will grow
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Photograph courtesy of the Philadelphia Bicycle Coalition Bike Talk By Randy LoBasso Philadelphia’s bicycling community woke up to interesting news in 2017: someone (or someones) had glued nearly three blocks of toilet plungers to 22nd Street to create a makeshift protected bike lane. The 22nd Street lane—well-used by commuters and recreational cyclists on the daily—had
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Photograph Courtesy of Retrievr SmartCityPHL Launches E-Waste and Textile Recycling Pilot By: Francesca Furey Looking to dispose of old cell phone models that live in a drawer and collect dust? How about piles of outfits that no longer fit? The City of Philadelphia’s new partnership with Retrievr lets you do just that, all while abiding
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