Marina Manoukian
School
Sarah Lawrence College, Freie Universität Berlin
Expertise
Historical Injustice, Literature, Diseases
- After writing about the history of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus for Grunge, the SFGCM reposted her article on their website.
- Her review of Mimi Lok's "Last of Her Name" was featured in Full Stop Review's 2019 Reviews Supplement
- The first time she read "War and Peace" she finished it in under 15 hours. Since then she has been working on reading every English translation.
Experience
Marina has been writing for over a decade, and her works range from prose poetry to non-fiction historical essays. She has written for websites like The Baffler and Literary Hub in addition to being a regular writer for Pussy Magic. Full Stop Review and Arts Fuse have also published her book reviews. She is working on a poetry collection.
Education
Marina has studied literature, philosophy, creative writing, and philology in her years in academia, and she is constantly working to synthesize information from a variety of viewpoints. She has a Masters degree in English Philology.
The unique content on Grunge is a result of skilled collaboration between writers and editors with a broad array of expertise in everything from history to classic Hollywood to true crime. Our goal is to provide accurate and diverse content bolstered by expert input.
Focused on accuracy and ethical coverage, the Grunge editorial team consistently fact-checks and reviews site content to provide readers with an informative, entertaining, and engaging experience. Click here for more information on our editorial process.
Stories By Marina Manoukian
-
The community at Las Dos Erres had no warning before the military death squad arrived one night. Here are chilling details from the Dos Erres massacre.
-
From at least 1948 to 1975, the U.S. Army was involved in human experimentation involving chemical agents at Edgewood Arsenal. Here's the story.
-
During her life, Truganini watched her world completely and utterly transform. This is the tragic true story of Truganini: the last Tasmanian Aboriginal.
-
Here are some chilling details about Australia's last officially sanctioned massacre, the Coniston massacre: Why it happened, who took part in it, and more.
-
When watching the music video of Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting," it's hard to believe that the video is largely based on a true story. Let's take a look.
-
Thirty years before the Chernobyl disaster, residents of the Soviet Union experienced a nuclear disaster that was covered up almost as quickly as it occurred.
-
As human beings engage the natural world -- through manufacturing, especially -- devastating tragedies have sometimes resulted in the deaths of thousands.
-
Abortion has long been practiced by people in the North America, and the right to it wasn't always a political issue. This is the untold history of Roe v. Wade.
-
Systemic inequalities mean not everyone in the world feels the effects of climate change equally. Here are the worst examples of environmental racism in history
-
A man named William Kemmler became the first person in the world to be killed with the electric chair in the late 19th century. This is his untold truth.
-
After World War II, the United States government decided they would wage a domestic battle. For over 20 years, hundreds of American socialists were persecuted.
-
Man has been drawing maps since nearly the dawn of time. The oldest maps of the world often show more than just where continents and cities are located.
-
Few people heard about the Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history, because it happened the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
-
The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was unlike anything the city had ever experienced before and helped refine building codes nationwide.
-
In 1978, in Newark, New Jersey, five Black teenagers went missing, never to be seen or heard from ever again. This is the tragic story of the Clinton Avenue 5.
-
Helen Duncan was the last witch in Great Britain to be imprisoned. This is the story of the medium who was jailed under the Witchcraft Act during WWII.
-
The U.S. cared little about upholding treaties, and for over a century, Native American rights were infringed upon. This oppression culminated in the Fish Wars.
-
The Maya's decades-long indigenous revolt forever affected the history of Yucatán. Here's what really happened during the longest Indigenous revolt in history.
-
The Babyn Yar massacre is considered one of the largest massacres that was committed during the Holocaust. This is the tragic history of Ukraine's Babyn Yar.
-
Dozens of Chinese gold miners lost their lives at the hands of racist Americans who didn't enjoy the competition. This is the Hells Canyon Massacre explained.
-
After the fall of the USSR, NATO survived with a little bit of rebranding and has continued to maintain a presence in Europe. This is the untold truth of NATO.
-
Too often, misguided, punitive government policies combine with environmental factors to produce catastrophic results for a specific population.
-
Contributors to the dispossession of land owned by Black people in the U.S. include heirs property laws, racist farm loan lending practices, and redlining.
-
The Monumental Earthworks at Poverty Point have yet to become household names like the Pyramids of Giza or the Sphinx. What was Poverty Point? We explain.
-
Considering the numerous iterations of bread, it's unlikely that bread will ever disappear from the human menu. This is the long history of bread explained.
-
An in an act of cruelty that was extreme even by the standards of early 20th century America, an elephant was executed, mostly for being an elephant.
-
Some arsonists are obsessed with watching flames do their destructive work. Others, for an insurance payoff. An arson spree in Boston was more complicated.