Cheri Lucas Rowlands
@cherilucasrowlands.com
Editor, @longreads.com. A12 since 2012. Californian since 1979. Junglist for life.
"Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?"
Read an excerpt from Christa Hillstrom's @atavist.com story about a nurse's quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in the US.
longreads.com/2025/12/04/f...
Read an excerpt from Christa Hillstrom's @atavist.com story about a nurse's quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in the US.
longreads.com/2025/12/04/f...
The Nurse Who Names the Dead - Longreads
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?"
Read an excerpt from Christa Hillstrom's @atavist.com story about a nurse's quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in the US.
longreads.com/2025/12/04/f...
Read an excerpt from Christa Hillstrom's @atavist.com story about a nurse's quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in the US.
longreads.com/2025/12/04/f...
omg that's my face 🫣 ⬇️
if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name
if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name
What keeps a brilliant editor like @cherilucasrowlands.com coming back to Automattic after 13 years?
Hint: it’s not just the work—it’s the people, the mission, and the freedom to create from anywhere. 🌍
If that resonates, we’re hiring! 👀
Hint: it’s not just the work—it’s the people, the mission, and the freedom to create from anywhere. 🌍
If that resonates, we’re hiring! 👀
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
omg that's my face 🫣 ⬇️
if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name
if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name
"The remix doesn’t say I can do this better, at least not always. The remix says I want to spend more time with you, I want to see the light fall on you from every possible angle."
Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” - Longreads
"Groove Theory" tries to make the work of staying in love feel as easy as possible, even when it isn’t.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"The remix doesn’t say I can do this better, at least not always. The remix says I want to spend more time with you, I want to see the light fall on you from every possible angle."
Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
The internet is loud. In a world of endless feeds and content that fades, our stories matter more than ever. Help us publish writing that outlasts the noise—stories that linger and pair well with your morning cup of coffee.
More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...
More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The internet is loud. In a world of endless feeds and content that fades, our stories matter more than ever. Help us publish writing that outlasts the noise—stories that linger and pair well with your morning cup of coffee.
More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...
More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...
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For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss
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Uncanny Testimony - Longreads
As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss
longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
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These words from @cherilucasrowlands.com made me happy:
"After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities"
longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...
"After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities"
longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...
September 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
These words from @cherilucasrowlands.com made me happy:
"After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities"
longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...
"After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities"
longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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GBBO, my 9-year-old would like a word
June 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
GBBO, my 9-year-old would like a word
I've moving from 900 to 2,400 square feet, which means: MORE WALL SPACE FOR ARTWORK!
Stoked to decorate my new house with more art, cat wall furniture, handwoven wall hangings, a living wall . . .
I welcome recs of your favorite artists, literary pubs with merch stores, and small businesses.
Stoked to decorate my new house with more art, cat wall furniture, handwoven wall hangings, a living wall . . .
I welcome recs of your favorite artists, literary pubs with merch stores, and small businesses.
May 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I've moving from 900 to 2,400 square feet, which means: MORE WALL SPACE FOR ARTWORK!
Stoked to decorate my new house with more art, cat wall furniture, handwoven wall hangings, a living wall . . .
I welcome recs of your favorite artists, literary pubs with merch stores, and small businesses.
Stoked to decorate my new house with more art, cat wall furniture, handwoven wall hangings, a living wall . . .
I welcome recs of your favorite artists, literary pubs with merch stores, and small businesses.
"The California I wanted doesn’t exist. It was never a place, with all of a place’s complex webs of land and culture."
Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.
Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.
Today at Longreads, Caylin Capra-Thomas writes about Sublime and the sublime, Bradley Nowell and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, addiction and loss and recovery, what we yearn for and what limits we touch longreads.com/2025/05/22/s...
On (the) Sublime - Longreads
When we reach for our limits, what is it that we ultimately grasp?
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May 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"The California I wanted doesn’t exist. It was never a place, with all of a place’s complex webs of land and culture."
Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.
Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.
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BREAKING NEWS: Water sausage shows off his impressive skills.
May 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Water sausage shows off his impressive skills.
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Someone asked if I consider myself neurodivergent, and I think it's probably best to describe myself with some astrological-like phrasing: I'm Neurotypical with ADHD rising, if you get my drift, just like I'm an Introvert but my moon is in Social Butterfly.
May 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Someone asked if I consider myself neurodivergent, and I think it's probably best to describe myself with some astrological-like phrasing: I'm Neurotypical with ADHD rising, if you get my drift, just like I'm an Introvert but my moon is in Social Butterfly.
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Some exciting personal news:
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
May 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some exciting personal news:
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
April 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Hot take: Wheat Thins are a seriously underrated cracker
April 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hot take: Wheat Thins are a seriously underrated cracker
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"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain."
A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:
A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:
The Inked and Invisible Scars that History Leaves Behind
In a world where memory is porous, how do we recognize the signs of history repeating?
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March 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain."
A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:
A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:
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Your gummy thought of the evening: So much of life is just showing up, and the internet allows too many people to not show up anymore. The rest of the world is just some shit that’s happening on television
March 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Your gummy thought of the evening: So much of life is just showing up, and the internet allows too many people to not show up anymore. The rest of the world is just some shit that’s happening on television
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I don’t read things written on substack if I can at all help it, this is true of many folks who are too polite to say it for fear of putting off those who write there, but you should know if you’re still on that platform!
just an n of 1 observation: if i land on an article posted to substack, I am 20x (?) more likely to just bounce off of it (esp when it shows that stupid signup / subscribe button immediately) never to return
March 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I don’t read things written on substack if I can at all help it, this is true of many folks who are too polite to say it for fear of putting off those who write there, but you should know if you’re still on that platform!
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why is everyone mad at me
when you say 20 years ago do you mean the 80s or the 2000s
March 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
why is everyone mad at me
I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.
When the world shifts, so must our words.
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
Quieseeds - Longreads
What if the key to understanding ourselves lies in the spaces between things—between words, between waves, between worlds?
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March 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.
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Tried to google the word count of On the Road.
March 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tried to google the word count of On the Road.
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All of us at @salvationsouth.com thank @cherilucasrowlands.com for seeing how Tracy Thompson’s “Solastalgia” “sinks into you.” It surely does. Thanks for including us is @longreads.com’s top stories.
Solastalgia
Southern author Tracy Thompson's "Solastalgia": environmental change, childhood memories, and the grief of losing a rural homeland.
www.salvationsouth.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
All of us at @salvationsouth.com thank @cherilucasrowlands.com for seeing how Tracy Thompson’s “Solastalgia” “sinks into you.” It surely does. Thanks for including us is @longreads.com’s top stories.
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Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.
February 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.
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Today has Friday energy but Wednesday tasks
February 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Today has Friday energy but Wednesday tasks