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Annie Howard


Journalist | Historian | Urbanist

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The Plague Isn't Over: Contingent Magazine

Repairing the Broken Links: Compost

I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie: The Nation

Fighting No-Fault Evictions With A Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance: Shelterforce

John D'Emilio Dives Deep Into Queer Archives: Chicago Reader

The Smart Museum Wants You to 'Take Care': Chicago Reader

In the Covid era, the relationship between cities and megadevelopments makes even less sense: City Monitor

Sasha Geffen's 'Glitter Up The Dark" Unravels Queer Music History: Nylon

N.K. Jemisin Confronts the City We're Becoming: Citylab

Development in Black and White: Belt Magazine

The Gentrifiers' Digest: CityLab

SimCity and “possibility spaces”: reshaping how we build the worlds around us: Glitch

“Southern Exposure” Uncovers the Proud Architectural Legacy of Chicago’s South Side: Metropolis

At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, MASS Design Group Proposes a Memorial to Victims of Gun Violence: Metropolis

The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook digs deep into the meaning of home: Curbed

Ezra Furman's "Twelve Nudes" is a "Firehose of Frustration": Bandcamp

'Out of the Closets and Into the Streets': Belt Magazine

'There Aren't Clear Heroes: Eve Ewing on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919: Pacific Standard

Cate Le Bon Shows The Wild Beauty In Being Alone: Nylon

Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos Talks Touring, Mental Health, And His Music's Surprising Influence: Nylon

Revisiting America's Little-Known Experimental Suburbs: Metropolis

Priests Takes On American Hypocrisy In Their New Album: Nylon

You Can Never Go Home to GeoCities Again: Slate

Are Planners Partly to Blame for Gentrification?: CityLab

A quick guide to biking in Chicago: Curbed

Fearing Privatization: Public Housing Activists Push Back Against RAD Plans: Shelterforce

A Global, Invisible Empire: Jacobin

Get To Know Bellows, Who Wants Musicians To Unionize: Nylon

Preserving Affordable Housing by Buying, Not Building: Shelterforce

Juan Wauters Went On A Magical Mystery Tour: Nylon

Who Will Benefit From Opportunity Zones? It’s Still Unclear: Shelterforce

'Go Ahead In The Rain' Is A Powerful Homage To The Ultimate '90s Group: Nylon

Chicago’s cultural history, ambitious ideas covered in new book: Curbed

Rent Control's Momentum: Jacobin

Q&A: Andrea Gibbons talks City of Segregation: Curbed

Beloved, historic Davis Theater celebrates its storied past: Curbed

Colin Self Explains The Alternative Queer Kinship Heard On ‘Siblings’: Nylon

How Geocities Suburbanized the Internet: Citylab

Native American routes: the ancient trails hidden in Chicago's grid system: The Guardian

Nearly Half a Million U.S. Homes Are About to Become Unaffordable: In These Times

A Template for Displacement Narratives: On Daniel Kay Hertz's The Battle of Lincoln Park: Cleveland Review of Books

New book details Lincoln Park’s gentrification history: Curbed

Bike Lane Uprising empowers cyclists to report blocked bike lanes, make roads safer: Curbed

Jenny Hval Doesn’t Need Her Politics To Translate To Facebook: Nylon

Journalism Still Carries the Mark of 1968: Columbia Journalism Review

Entering the Grey Zone: Rhizome

Chicago Activist Convention Shifts Focus to Community Benefits Campaign: Shelterforce

A Deeper Critical Consciousness: An Interview with Wayne Au: The Progressive

A Year Later, Can the Grenfell Tower Fire Be a Catalyst for Reimagining Housing Policy?: Shelterforce

In Response to ICE Raids and Family Separation, Immigrant Communities Are Fighting Back: In These Times

Homeownership is Dead. The Future Lies in Public Housing.: In These Times

Buying Into Queer Dance-Punk Trio Shopping: Into

Ezra Furman Writes About His Love Of Lou Reed In New 33 1/3 Ode to 'Transformer': Into

It's Time To Build New, Mixed-Income Public Housing: Shelterforce

The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago: Chicago Review

The Right to Rent Control: Jacobin

The Surprising Reason Why All Google Searches Aren't Created Equal: Colorlines

Ezra Furman and the Fragile Body: The Spark Magazine

In Freezing Chicago Winter, Protesters Stage Camp-In to Protest Unaffordable Rents: In These Times

What Happened When I Let The Shuffle Button Soundtrack My Life: Nylon

The Search For Radical Happiness: On Of Montreal And Queer Masculinity: Nylon

Gentrifier is a positive step forward in the gentrification debate: Chicago Reader

The Chicago Architecture Foundation creates a graphic novel for the city’s future: Chicago Reader

An emotional case for circular time: North By Northwestern

Meritocratic Myths: Jacobin

Do Less, Feel More: North By Northwestern

Twenty-seven years after Straight Outta Compton, can political hip-hop reach white listeners?: Chicago Reader

Does 'objective' reporting distort the truth?: Chicago Reader

Post-marriage equality, disparities persist in the LGBTQ community: Chicago Reader

'Art is more important than life'


For Chicago Reader, I explored recent controversy around the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, putting it in conversation with Keith Haring's Self Portrait to ask what HIV/AIDS art offers in the face of another pandemic.

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Daring to win


For Chicago Reader, I wrote about former 46th Ward Alderwoman Helen Shiller's memoir Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win, and the current state of the Uptown community, long one of the nation's most organized neighborhoods.

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What Good Can Dreaming Do?


For Boston Review, I wrote about Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, and the valuable insights it offers to those looking to dreaming and the unconscious to help build a better world.

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Scattered, Exhausted Voices


For Lapham's Quarterly, I wrote about the incalcuable loss within queer communities from the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the role of fragile archives in preserving community memory, and the challenge of living in the aftermath of a deadly pandemic.

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Queer to the Left came to raise hell


For Chicago Reader, I wrote about Queer to the Left, a ragtag group of queer activists who challenged gay gentrification, homonormativity, and the death penalty in Uptown in the late 90s and early 2000s.

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The Messy In-Between


For Majuscule Lit, I wrote about the in-between digital and physical spaces which increasingly populate our world, as forces like gentrification bleed from the physical realm to the digital and back again.

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