Editor's Note

Dear FM, In this week’s cover story, AJP and SG take a look at Fenway Health, a giant in the world of LGBT healthcare. Through archival research and on-the-ground reporting, AJP and SG tell Fenway Health’s storied history — from its origins as a radical free clinic to its status as “ground zero” for LGBTQ healthcare during the AIDS crisis — while highlighting staff and patient concerns with the organization’s current management and recent downsizing. And though Fenway Health has struggled with financial insolvency and stalled union negotiations in recent years, the center is now facing a new challenge: a federal government hostile to its founding mission. How will Fenway Health meet this moment? Can they? The rest of the issue is full of wonderful pieces. For levities, we have two venn diagrams by HGL and JMK and JPL’s list of Harvard’s recession indicators. A series of pieces take us all around town: first to Currier, to stop for some eggs with CGH and JK; then to the Little Crepe Cafe to hear some revolutionary poetry with MK and AM; to the Cambridge Antique Market with MSA and NFLL; around the Houses’ art galleries with HGL; and to Allston, to watch microgreens grow with NCI. REGC takes us back in time — to explore how John Harvard moved from his old spot outside of Annenberg to his familiar perch in the Yard. AWA and HGL talk to influencer Sean Park about @askharvardstudents and his in-the-Yard interviews of Harvard students. JES discusses the chaos of Harvard’s twelve housing lotteries, which — of course — lack standardization. For columns, CS discusses queer cinema, AJBS talks about neighborliness on Harvard’s campus, AS asks us to reconsider our spring break habits, CJ probes our preoccupation with dairy, and CL writes a letter to letters. To close out this issue, we have some introspections: SZ pens an ode to the book “When Breath Becomes Air” and the use of tears, RZN takes a trip to Detroit, DMH reflects on her relationship with Syria, and SJ talks about how travel pushes us to inquire and grow. And finally, in a piece that came out on Wednesday night, NHS talks to Larry Summers — former Harvard president and Secretary of the Treasury — about what comes next in the fight for Harvard's future. FMLove, MTB + YAK