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?
lifeofthelaw.org
Paws & Laws: The Very Real Link Between Domestic Violence and ...
Paws & Laws: The Very Real Link Between Domestic Vi...
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...
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 | ArchiteXX.org
Flashback Feminism: Phyllis Birkby and Women’s Envi...
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” ...
The Brooklyn Paper
Pinup girls: The ‘I ♥ Bklyn Girls’ are back
If a man hangs a pin-up calendar above his desk at work, he’s an ogre. If a woman does it, she’s a sexual trend-setter....
Brick Underground
How I won an affordable housing lottery apartment in Manhattan
Well, we actually did win the lottery, my girlfriend and I. The NYC affordable housing lottery.
We had been entering the affordable housing lottery for a total of almost 25 years. My girlfriend, Lisa, applied for the lottery at those artists’ residences on 42nd Street between Ninth and 10th soon after she moved to New York in the mid-'90s. It was the first in a string of applications. This was back when you had to call to find out where and when there were openings, and then send in a self-ad...
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.