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Cora Currier’s Biography

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I am a freelance editor and writer based in Los Angeles. I've been on staff at The Intercept, ProPublica, and The New Yorker, and have reported extensively on the war on terror, surveillance tech, immigration, and Central America, among other topics.

My book reviews and essays have also appeared in the New Republic, Dissent, Bookforum, the Nation, the New Inquiry, and elsewhere.

And I'm a co-founding editor of the feminist magazine Lux, where I commission reported features, essays, and review…

Cora Currier’s Journalist Portfolio

Organizing Skid Row | Dissent Magazine

Organizing Skid Row | Dissent Magazine

Activists in L.A. are connecting homelessness to the issues of over-policing, gentrification, and the fight f…

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Gwendoline Riley Takes on the Puzzle of Aging Original

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An Eastern Cape giant cycad in the Palm House at Kew Gardens in London is over 240 years old.
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Ten Questions with Sepideh Moafi

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By Cora Currier Verified
| Lux-Magazine.com
You may know Sepideh Moafi as the precise and ambitious Dr. Al-Hashimi from The Pitt, or perhaps as a sex worker and activist on The Deuce, or as a separated mother in the gutting The Killing of Two Lovers, or as realtor Gigi on the revamped and camp L Word: Generation Q. You may not know that Moafi was born in a German refugee camp after her parents fled the Islamic Revolution in Iran; the family then lived in Turkey and eventually came to the U.S., an experience that shaped Moafi’s politics.
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Ten Questions with Rowan Blanchard

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| Lux-Magazine.com
Rowan Blanchard rocked the Disney kid paradigm when she came out as queer at the age of 14, and she hasn’t stopped rocking it since. The former Spy Kids and Girl Meets World star has consistently broken out from under the discipline of the Mouse to support Palestine, including in a 2018 Instagram post criticizing the Israeli violence in response to the Great March of Return actions.
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