MEDIUM RARE

Our Favorite Stories About Figuring Out Who We Are and Where We Come From

Stories from the Medium universe that tackle titles and identity

Amanda Sakuma
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3 min readMay 1, 2020

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Each week on Medium Rare, I’ll be sharing stories you might have missed that are definitely worth a second look. Got a suggestion for a piece we should feature? Pop it in the responses below!

  • After being identified by broadcast news networks as an “expert” on North Korea, writer and journalist Eric Stinton unpacks the absurdity of such labels: “Imagine an interview with an ‘America Expert.’ What would that even mean? What aspect of America would their expertise be in? Economics? Politics? Culture?”

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Amanda Sakuma
Amanda Sakuma

Written by Amanda Sakuma

Editor/writer. Words in GEN, The Atlantic, Glamour, The Intercept, MSNBC, NBC News, NYT, Vice, Vox, and more.