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Jordan Corcoran, founder of Listen, Lucy, sits for a portrait in front of some of the brainstorming she’s done with audiences, in her office on Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Troy Hill. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

After a decade spent talking about mental health in schools, I felt like giving up. Instead, I’m giving more.

by First-person essay by Jordan Corcoran June 2, 2023June 1, 2023

Kalilah Stein, 14, on Thursday, May 18, 2023, in her neighborhood of Carrick. Kalilah learned to shoot at a young age from her grandfather. Now she lives in a neighborhood that has seen two young people shot fatally this year. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

I learned how to pull a trigger, and the same lessons are crucial to addressing gun violence

by First-person essay by Kalilah Stein May 26, 2023May 28, 2023

Polk State School & Hospital, later renamed Polk State Center, in Polk, Venango County, in an undated photo. (Historic American Buildings Survey/Library of Congress)

50 years ago this month, we exposed a state institution. It’s finally closing.

by First-person essay by Robert Nelkin April 28, 2023April 30, 2023

A man plays the saxophone on the Andy Warhol Bridge as Pittsburgh Pirates fans walk across to get to PNC Park on Friday, April 7th, 2023. (Photo by Amaya Lobato-Rivas)

Community storytelling

For a time, it seemed the 31st Street Bridge was all mine. Why not give a Pittsburgh bridge to the people?

by First-person essay by Laura Walsh April 13, 2023April 16, 2023

Aim Comperatore stands for a portrait at their Pressley Street High Rise apartment on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in East Allegheny. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Fear not gender-neutral pronouns! They can be fun.

by First-person essay by Aim T. Comperatore April 7, 2023April 6, 2023

An illustration of a woman holding her hands open and looking to the sky on a yellow background.

GENDER & IDENTITY

Teaching myself to be unbothered: My Black Women’s History Month lesson 30 years in the making.

by First-person essay by Tahirah J. Walker March 24, 2023March 23, 2023

Mersin, Turkey, seen here on December 30, 2022, sits 175 miles from the epicenters of the Feb. 5 earthquakes that left tens of thousands dead and many more homeless in Turkey and Syria. (Photo courtesy of Müge Kökten Finkel)

‘All Turkish was a battle cry against time’

by First-person essay by Müge Kökten Finkel February 16, 2023February 17, 2023

Aim Comperatore wears a black suit and a tie with the stripes of the transgender pride flag while posing for a portrait at Comperatore's Pressley Street High Rise apartment.

Pittsburgh: Why I love you

by First-person essay by Aim T. Comperatore January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

Arko Dasgupta, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, sits for a portrait on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in the Strip District. Dasgupta taught a class on Indian cinema over the previous summer, spurring conversations about culture among his students. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Indian cinema’s lens, and the classroom conversations it catalyzed, put the term ‘Asian American’ into sharper focus

by By Arko Dasgupta, with Emma Folts January 6, 2023January 7, 2023

Community storytelling

We’re the solution and maybe that’s the problem: How we (don’t) handle crises

by First-person essay by Eli Kurs-Lasky December 16, 2022December 13, 2022