Each week, we share the top five articles that caught our attention. Here are your must-reads, published here and abroad, for the week of June 03, 2019.
Resisting gentrification in Mexico City
Rising housing costs have triggered a wave of displacement in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico, but residents are finding creative ways to resist gentrification and violent evictions, including a Whatsapp initiative and a dance party.
→ Read it on City Lab
The origins of the $$$
The dollar sign is one of the world’s most potent symbols, signifying big aspirations, splashy greed and rampant capitalism. But despite its ubiquity, the origins of the $$$ remain far from clear, with competing theories touching on Bohemian coins and the Pillars of Hercules.
→ Read it on BBC
Tourists are causing headaches in Japan
Of course, Japan should have a thriving tourism industry! This is a beautiful country with a rich culture, a long history and delicious food. But a sudden spike has caused growing pains, such as overcrowding, hotel shortages and increased risk to local flora and fauna.
→ À lire dans Kotaku
Director Céline Sciamma to the rescue
If women struggle to find their place on the big screen, lesbians are almost non-existent. In her new film, Céline Sciamma depicts a romance between two women in 1770. Portrait de la jeune fille en feu is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise male-dominated cinema.
→ Read it on Slate (French)
Born to be eaten
What’s at stake in the development planned for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? A caribou herd, and a culture that relies on it. In fighting to protect the caribou, the Gwich’in nation—roughly 9,000 people scattered across Alaska and northern Canada—is also fighting for its own survival.
→ Read it on Long Reads
In your earbuds: Affaires sensibles
Sensitive matters, indeed! Host Fabrice Drouelle will take you on a deep dive into business moves, notable legal cases or other extraordinary events from the last 50 years years.
→ Listen to it on Affaires sensibles (French)
Instagram fave: War and Peas
German illustrators Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz post a new comic every Sunday. Their quirky concoctions will put a smile on your face and chase those Monday blues away.
Photo: Valeria Almaraz
