
There’s a hopeful story to tell about alternatives to police, and Kaia Sand sends dispatches to keep you posted. Read it here first while Sand writes a book, as well as columns and essays for Nation, Orion, and, from 2017-2024, Street Roots.
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This is the third of seven interlocking essays based in Sarajevo I’ll publish in June, following “The ascension of the Mount Trebević cable car” and “He carves art downhill from where his generation is buried.”
I turn on the faucet to wa...
This is the second of seven interlocking essays based in Sarajevo I’ll publish in June, following “the ascension of the Mount Trebević cable car.”
He etched my name with a slim steel tool into the copper earrings. I’d been admiring them...
This is the first of seven interlocking essays based in Sarajevo I’ll publish twice a week in June.
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The ascension of the Mount Trebević cable car
This is the first of seven interlocking essays based in Sa...
Helsinki — I’d make my way to a knit cafe, order a strawberry soda, settle into a wicker chair, and knit as I listen to an audiobook — usually, Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker, a book on the history of mental illness and stigma. I...
Graffiti on an Old Town wall, Portland, Ore (photo by Kaia Sand)
I looked out at the ships as they navigated the night. Gathered around a bonfire, my family burned notes on which we wrote what we wanted to leave behind. This is our New Yea...
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Kaia Sand writes https://open.substack.com/pub/unwantedpersons on alternatives to the police, first responders that are care-focused, not crime-focused
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