Here In My City

"I thought writing was something you had to go away to do." Soleil Torres, an Oberlin College Oberlin Bonner Scholar, spent her summer "break" proving herself wrong -- and damn was she busy researching, producing and writing some real heavy-hitters that we're excited, proud & thankful to publish. Read her work exploring the "radical possibility" of being both Latinidad + queer, written after attending Reading Pride Celebration, as well as her heavily-researched piece explorin...g the "hyper-criminalization of Reading...coded in racial and ethnic targeting:" www.hereinmycity.com. We give Soleil a big Thank You, a "best of luck," and can't wait to see what she produces and writes in the future! #communitymedia #justakidfromreading #readingpa #zine

Check out Issue 5! Including: -Extreme Sports For Brown Folk by Anthony Orozco -The Bad** B.I.T.C.H. Book Review II by Ruby Mora -Sideways Blues: Irish Mountain and beyond (Excerpts) by Carl Kaucher -Great Roads, Good Company By Félix Alfonso Peña... -Reading’s (In)Complete Streets, A Then & Now & Maybe Someday: Why Complete Streets Policy is Both Crucial and Irrelevant To Making Our City Better For People On Bikes (And Everyone Else) by Dani Motze Thanks to Queen City Family Restaurant for being an Issue 5 sponsor. https://www.hereinmycity.com/

Thank you Reading Pride Celebration for working Year-Round to make this week & today happen - and for working so hard to keep it affordable & accessible & welcoming for so many ! We loved asking people what Pride meant to them - look for our What Does Reading Pride Mean to You video, in partnership with Reading Magazine & produced by Soleil, shortly.

Hope to see you at Reading Pride Celebration events the rest of the week, leading up to Sunday's Festival, where we'll be partnering with Reading Magazine to ask everyone, "What Does Reading Pride Mean to You?" Until then, watch last year's video here: https://rdgmag.com//what-does-pride-mean-to-me-reading-pr/... (We also hope to see you on Monday; join Reading's queer community, The LGBT Center of Greater Reading and Pride to advocate at City Council.) #readingpa #communitymedia #pride #lgbtq #queer