- The strange case of Christmas KFC
- Tokyo prepares to lose its last street-level view of Mt. Fuji
- On Not Believing in Canada
- Thinking Haiti, Thinking Jean Casimir
- Old school Berlant: Against the Sex Scandal
- Dean Spade, The Most Imprisoning Nation in the World (video)
- Rania Kalek on what's Missing from the Gun Control Debate
- When the burning moment breaks: Gun control and rage massacres
- “Did you hear? It’s the sound of their world collapsing”
- The Shape of My Impact: on Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years
- Thousands protest rape in India
- Oki Sogumi on living anymore
- Anne Boyer's crushindex
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Coioniai Discourses (pdf)
- Matt & Kteeo are spending the holidays in prison and soon Maddy will be joining them
- China Mieville's Christmas(TM) story: 'Tis the Season
- To get you through family times, my current favorite porn tumblr (NSFW)
- The Opportunistic Apocalypse (on public anthropology and the apocalypse as a commodity)
- Time and the Maya Apocalypse: Guatemala, 1982 and 2012
- Sandy and the Sandman: On Dreams and Prophecies of the Great Flood
- Occupy the Rockaways!
- Not a Grid, But a Fleet (on ships in cities, and cities of ships)
- The Anthropology of Infrastructure (a roundtable discussion)
- The Severed Branches of Local Government (on the colonial legacy of urban governance in Egypt)
- Obama, Hüseyin, and the Impossibility of Justice
- UC's New Chancellor Endorses the Falsehood: Criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic
- Dreams in Infrared: the Woes of an American Drone Operator
- Farewell Tour (a short story by Teju Cole)
- Notes from Raisina Hill (on rape, protest, and public space in Delhi)
- Stage Mothers: A Women's Theater in Rural Turkey (this one's subscriber-only, alas, but it's so good that I'm linking anyway)
- "Behaving as if our digital data is fleeting can cause serious trouble"
- "engineers should take up the case, fight fire with fire, and set their sights on designing anti-racist apps"
- “Social Media” didn’t get anything wrong or right. Reporters got things wrong"
- "There’s something beautifully noncommittal about Snapchat that flies in the face of what we’ve always known photography to represent"
- "I’m tired of contributing to the commodification of my own existence"
- "There was no correlation between how much money users paid and how well they were treated"
- "Holiday cards were mostly maudlin crap as if that could make any real difference for stopping wars"
- Pursuing my True Self: Mattie Brice reflects on how a gender non-comforming game character parallels her experiences as a trans woman
- Let us Prey: Big Trouble at First Baptist Church: Patriachal masculinity, cults of personality, and sexual abuse in Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Churches
- Why Won’t We Talk About Violence and Masculinity in America?
- South Korea Elects First Female President: Park Geun-hye; Further context on Park and the election.
- Surviving the Holidays as Queer People of Color: Give the Gift of Media
- VAWA - A Black feminist dissent
- The Great Escape From Slavery of Ellen and William Craft: helpful counter-balance (or alternative) to Django's revenge fantasy.
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike continues into its 13th day:
- Idle No More: On the meaning of Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike
- Why ‘Idle No More’ is gaining strength, and why all Canadians should care
Delhi Gang Rape Case:
- Rape Cultures in India: Pratiksha Baxi
- City of Sins - "The manner in which we create cities, and allow them to evolve, has great impact on how its inhabitants use it"
- Why you shouldn't call Delhi our 'rape capital'
- Rape and Death
- Sharp critique of incoming UC Berkeley chancellor by former colleagues at Columbia...
- Open letter to President Mark Yudof on the UC logo fiasco
- UC has over $35 million invested with the maker of the gun used in Sandy Hook shooting
- "Campus officials were in contact with the FBI for information on OWS."
- Whose university? Not your university!
- Not your academy either (on occupation and the future of student struggles)
- Social Text on Occupy: Is this what democracy looks like?
- MOOCs as capital-biased technological change
- Milton Friedman's pencil
- Missing from the gun control debate: Police shootings of unarmed people of color...
- ...and in Oakland, school police kill students
- On the scapegoating of "crazy
- Dolewellian.
- Affordances 'R' Us.
- Who's your GeoCity?
- A potpourri on Central Asia.
- The Donor Class
- The Matthew Effect in cities.
- "Swedes have been cut down to size."
- "Who benefits?" The Roses on modern technoscience.
- Instagrab.