Stephanie Schroeder

Art project aims to document gentrifying city: ‘It's not just Boroklyn'

An experienced home exchanger with six apartment swaps under my belt, I found a nice surprise when someone from Berlin inquired about an apartment swap.

Is the Fear of Death Controlling Your Anxiety?

Zinesters Do It on the Photocopier: A Look at the Q...

Death Cafes: Tea, Cake & Conversations about Dying

A Zen talks love, monogamy, and why L.A. just isn’t a lang thang.

For Pooja Bavishi, entrepreneurship runs in the family. Her father is an independent businessman in the textile industry, and her mother has worked alongside him for as long as Bavishi can remember. Making the the jump from undergrad studies in North Carolina, to fair housing and social enterprise work in DC, to business school in Manhattan, to making and selling ice cream in Brooklyn may not be a small feat—but Bavishi is pulling it off.
Describing Malai, her gourmet small-batch ice cream br...

I’ve been to many a protest march. I started protesting when I was in college in Chicago in the 1980s. We were anti-nuke protesters walking out of school and lying down in the streets shouting “No Business As Usual.” In Chicago, I also worked with female political prisoners to get them basic supplies like tampons and sanitary pads...

"My Awesome Place": Poet-performer Cheryl B’s posthumously published memoir.

Paws & Laws: The Very Real Link Between Domestic Vi...

By Stephanie Schroeder
I arranged my first home exchange in 2006. The deal was that my partner at the time and I would give up our Jersey City, NJ, apartment for a couple who had a house in Alkmaar, North Holland in The Netherlands. It was all very new to me, this home exchange adventure, but it was the only way I could afford to travel. I had only five days vacation from my job at a corporate PR firm, plus two bookended weekends. The dates on the ad that read “Historical Dutch Town for NYC” ...

It appears that if you were a man, you should be studying architecture." With that dismissal, in 1948 Noel Phyllis Birkby’s suburban New Jersey high school career counselors squashed her career aspirations. Based on their rigid notions of gender, they shunted her desire to build, guiding her into the more "feminine" study of art despite her aptitude for and interest in architectural and environmental design.

An enticing city with a soft-spoken appeal, Berlin reveals some of its secrets to women only.

I know firsthand about the mythical "affordable housing" bandied about by almost every cash-strapped New Yorker. Six years after applying with my partner, I won an apartment in the NYC Affordable Housing Lottery—a unicorn most folks actually know little about.

The "I ❤️ Brooklyn Girls" are Back