Stephanie Schroeder
Freelance Writer
I am a keen cultural observer with an appetite for odd juxtapositions and interesting contradictions.
PROJECTS
The Guardian
Art project aims to document gentrifying city: 'It's not just Brooklyn ...
Art project aims to document gentrifying city: ‘It's not just Boroklyn'
station-station.com
My Berlin for your Brooklyn - STATION TO STATION
My Berlin for your Brooklyn - STATION TO STATION
Healthline
We Need to Talk About Our Fear of Death and the Anxiety It Causes
Is the Fear of Death Controlling Your Anxiety?
Lambda Literary Foundation
Zinesters Do It on the Photocopier: A Look at the Queer Zine Archive ...
Zinesters Do It on the Photocopier: A Look at the Q...
1am.news
Illustrator Yuko Shimizu: A True Artists’ Artist
The Yuko Shimizu who is an illustrator, artist and teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City is not the Yuko Shimizu who invented Hello Kitty. Let’s get that out of the way first thing. This Yuko Shimizu is the illustrator, fine artist and teacher, whose monograph, “Living with Yuko Shimizu: 32 Removable Arts Prints,” has been issued by ROADS Publishing and will soon be available in the U.S.
lifeofthelaw.org
Paws & Laws: The Very Real Link Between Domestic Violence and ...
Paws & Laws: The Very Real Link Between Domestic Vi...
Curve Magazine
Classic k.d. lang: Long Live the Lang Thang - Curve Magazine ...
Stephanie Schroeder. Classic k.d. lang: Long Live the Lang Thang. Photo: Courtesy Olivia Cruises. I notice k.d. lang is just about my size, perhaps a bit more ......
Brooklyn Magazine
Crème de la (Ice) Crème
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...
architexx.org
Flashback Feminism: Phyllis Birkby and Women's Environmental Fantasies
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.
Curve Magazine
Jess Dobkin Pieces It Together - Curve Magazine - Web Articles ...
Stephanie Schroeder. Jess Dobkin Pieces It Together. Photo: David Hawe. Provocative lesbian-feminist performance artist extraordinaire Jess Dobkin is a ......
odyssamagazine.com
Living Local: On Home Swaps and Friendships
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” ...
apartmenttherapy.com
How I Scored a Luxury 1-Bedroom NYC Apartment for $810 a Month
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.
station-station.com
Making Art and Breaking Bread - STATION TO STATION
Making Art and Breaking Bread - STATION TO STATION
Curve Magazine
Heather Connell Focuses her Lens on Untold Stories - Curve ...
Stephanie Schroeder. Heather Connell Focuses her Lens on Untold Stories. Christie Hemm. One thing you should know about documentary filmmaker Heather ......
Healthline
Pole Dancing Through and Away the (Chronic) Pain
Pole dancing. It sounds like a counterintuitive activity for women with chronic pain. But there’s a wave of women who have adopted this art, sport, and form of dance – yes, it can be all three – and found relief.