First person Archives - Page 14 of 33 - Pittsburgh's Public Source

Craig Maier holds a round mirror reflecting his face as he looks back at himself in his Pittsburgh home. in the distance the light of his windowed front door. Plants are suggested in the hallway. His blue checked shirt frames the bottom right of the photo. Light reflects off the wooden floors.

My assault shows that toxic masculinity hurts men, too. How can universities shift the culture?

by First-person essay by Craig Maier November 4, 2022January 3, 2023

Tombs of the Toigs: Forgetting and remembering the Jewish past

by First-person essay by Joey Glick October 28, 2022October 28, 2022

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A freshman’s take on teen mental health 101, and spoiler, it’s not constant positivity | S4, Ep. 2

by Jourdan Hicks October 26, 2022April 5, 2023

Am I next? If you don’t have a body like mine, that question might not haunt you.

by First-person essay by Ashanti McLaurin October 21, 2022October 25, 2022

Jennifer Sweda Jordan looks to the right of the frame from beyond the reflections of trees in the tall glass windows of the Carnegie Museum of Art. She wears a headband and jean jacket and is reflected in the adjacent glass.

Community storytelling

Who helped me to understand mental illness? The Who

by Jennifer Szweda Jordan October 14, 2022April 5, 2023

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Teens changing the rhetoric around youth violence in the Pittsburgh area | S4, Ep. 1

by Jourdan Hicks October 12, 2022November 22, 2024

Deahmi Mobley (foreground), a freshman at Central Catholic High School, talks about his essay decrying youth violence and his subsequent involvement in the Do the Write Thing program, at the PublicSource office in Uptown Pittsburgh on Aug. 5, 2022. His fellow Do the Write Thing ambassador Jaia Harrison is in the background. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource)

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One love, one fight for tomorrow

by First-person essay by Deahmi Mobley October 12, 2022October 12, 2022

Jaia Harrison (left), a freshman at Northgate Senior High School, talks about her essay calling for attention to youth mental health and her subsequent involvement in the Do the Write Thing program, at the PublicSource office in Uptown Pittsburgh on Aug. 5, 2022, with fellow youth ambassador Deahmi Mobley. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource)

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Making change: Youth violence and its effects in Pittsburgh

by First-person essay by Jaia Harrison October 12, 2022October 12, 2022

A person in a black jacket, blue jeans and a red and black patterned scarf stands on a sidewalk next to an orange construction sign that reads "SLOW DANGER" with several parked and moving cars out of focus in the background.

Community storytelling

When a Jeep smashed me and my bicycle, it flattened my life’s mission – and then came the traffic ticket

by First-person essay by Laura Walsh October 11, 2022August 16, 2023

Jeffrey Shockley (Courtesy of Prison Journalism Project)

Programming in Pennsylvania prisons gave this lifer purpose

by Jeffrey Shockley October 10, 2022October 7, 2022