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Emily Manthei

5 Lessons Learned from My Experiment #JustReadingWomen

Shortly after the Black Lives Matter protests started at the end of May, I picked up Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race…

10 min readNov 24, 2020

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5 Lessons Learned from My Experiment #JustReadingWomen

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Emily Manthei

Don’t think you’ve benefitted from white privilege?

First, I want to say: I am a white person and I’m not writing this for the benefit of informing anyone with lived experience as a person…

9 min readJun 16, 2020

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Don’t think you’ve benefitted from white privilege?

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Emily Manthei

More Art, Less Money?

The advertisers are gone. The sponsored-content-influencers are gone. The money is gone. All gone.

4 min readMay 21, 2020

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More Art, Less Money?

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Emily Manthei

Re-evaluating travel, as an industry and a lifestyle.

I love airports. The familiarity of strangeness. The soothing call of a flight attendant. The secret peek into the weird habits of…

5 min readMay 13, 2020

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Re-evaluating travel, as an industry and a lifestyle.

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Emily Manthei

I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore

Anger is not one of my primary responses to tragedy, loss, and injustice. In the current pandemic, I’ve cycled through my normal states of…

13 min readApr 6, 2020

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I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore

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Emily Manthei

The Way We Fight

People:

3 min readNov 1, 2018

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The Way We Fight

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Emily Manthei

On Communion

“Let’s spend a few minutes in silence to set an intention.” A prayer, sent out in faith, a spiritual communique.

5 min readJun 10, 2018

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On Communion

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Emily Manthei

House Sharing is the New Normal: Addressing the Skyrocketing Cost of Renting in American Cities

In 2006, I moved to a property with two large houses, built in the 1930s and last renovated in the 70s, at the bottom of a hillside in East…

10 min readMay 14, 2018

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House Sharing is the New Normal: Addressing the Skyrocketing Cost of Renting in American Cities

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Emily Manthei

Apocalypse Later

My latest piece to be rejected from a literary journal, so I’ll publish it here.

2 min readFeb 14, 2018

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Emily Manthei

Despairing over Christmas

“… there is not one single human being who does not despair a little”

9 min readDec 25, 2017

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Despairing over Christmas

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Emily Manthei

Emily Manthei

Wordy and worldly. Filmmaker and freelance writer covering culture, philosophy, travel, urbanization and theology. Based in Berlin.

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