- We have always resisted: centering the historical activism of trans women of color in the narrative of the reproductive justice movement
- What we aren't talking about when we talk about gun control
- Race, Gun Control, and Unintended Consequences
- Wrestling with details of Noah Pozner's killing
- What Girls and Shameless teach us about the difference between being broke and being poor
- Having children shouldn't be a privilege for women graduate students
- How to write about trans issues without doing a Julie Burchill
- Did Jodie Foster just come out?
- Jodie Foster and the queer line between public and private
- Tragically hip: privilege and the emerging church
- "I was told by one human rights worker the story of Hasan Avras, who received a DNA match for his relative’s bones only to discover that they had been lost in the post." (On mass graves, the politics of memory, and the Kurdish conflict in Turkey).
- "It is not just the families of the victims of the Uludere massacre who still feel the pain of their loss."
- Ordering the Disorderly? Street Vendors and the Developmentalist State
- "…these are images that sidestep love."
- The Aleppo University Bombing and the Banality of Good
- "In New York, where I presently live, I don’t need to be anybody, but at JFK, I am Arab; in Bay Ridge, I am undoubtedly Indian; in bars, I am whatever you want me to be."
- "Being a ghost in Berlin had its advantages, sometimes."
- Workers, Trade Unions, and Egypt's Political Future
- On the sixth anniversary of Hrant Dink's assassination:
- "Six years ago today was the last day Hrant Dink, the slain Armenian-Turkish journalist, lived."
- "And justice is still not done after six years."
- Hrant Dink's Voice (on the fifth anniversary)
- A translation of Dink's last column (pdf)
- Oakland city officials have once again proved that their definition of "90 percent" is "an unknown percentage between 0 and 100, but probably not 90."
- On suicide in queer/trans* communities
- The development of class struggle in Egypt
- Putting the class back in the classroom
- MRAs and WTFs
- China Mieville on the turmoil in the SWP
- Comparative Fascism
- The Accelerationist Critique of Neoliberalism
- Zig Zag on Idle No More: "In any liberation movement there are internal and external struggles"
- On Cruel Optimism
- The real housing crisis of Orange County
- CAPR steps it up in support of yet another PNW grand jury resister
- Twitter-enabled coffee pot
- Over and over
- When Barns and Noble is dead and gone, can bookselling survive?
- What's the best way of preserving records of today's civilization?
- A year after unions took over the New Haven Board of Alderman, what's happening?
- "Under American law, anyone interesting is a felon. The prosecutors, not the law, decide who deserves punishment."
- Seven short stories about drones
- "Nothing weird is going to happen."
- The real economic power of aboriginal Canadians: why capital and the state are scared
- All Canadians are treaty people, with rights and obligations
- Voices from Victoria Island
- The Neoliberalized, Debt-plagued, Low Wage, Corporatized University
- Vietnam was even more horrific than we thought
- Once Bookstore
- the history of peer review
- An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak
- Age, Actually: On Michael Haneke's "Amour"
- The Tree of Life: Ten simple ways to share PDFs of your papers
- On studying with Roland Barthes [pdf]
- The commentary of Father Monserrate, S.J., on his journey to the court of Akbar
- Ferdowsi’s Legacy: Examining Persian Nationalist Myths of the Shahnameh
- Alberto Manguel on the uses of reading [pdf]
- Habib Lotfallah and the Arabian National Bank of Hedjaz
- Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon
- When did the Roma leave India?
- Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertising and Design in Early 20th-Century Japan
- Kerala Christian names, their origin and English equivalents
- Three Photographic Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Iran
- Unicornucopia: The Unicorn as Collected Object
- Places: A Rumination On Cities
- It is known - Game of Thrones, the Orient, and Conventional Wisdom
- Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter
- A Hindu scholar's contribution to Persian literary studies
- “now that we have a simple tool—and grammar—for looping a half second of video”
- “The Internet makes this sort of writer-presence easier, more ubiquitous”
- “I’d like to type in “dentists liked by people who don’t like horror movies””
- “The defining feature of a “real” arcade, however, is that there aren’t really any left”
- “digital technologies enable abundant production, watering-down the meaning of an object and/or interaction
- “violence against bits is not any less real; such violence remains violence against the whole”
- “What’s going on isn’t about undermining democracy, but about preserving democracy in a networked world”
- “Silicon Valley culture loves to celebrate the end of institutions merely to bask in the spectacle of falling rubble”
- "SPONSORED: The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement"
- "If you try hard enough, you can live ten lifetimes in New York in a short two years"
- "there is literally not enough celery root grown in the world for it to survive on the menu at McDonald’s"
- "being cissexual, just like being heterosexual, isn’t ‘normal’, merely common"
- "nothing better captures the affect of consumer capitalism than this idea of a “false win”"
- "There are way worse things a football player can do to a woman than pretend she exists"
- Snapchats From My Mom; No Results; UpGoer Your Ph.D.
- Yudof is stepping down!
- Addressing the austerity lock-in at public universities
- UC online, UC in debt
- Inequality in American education will not be solved online
- Unthinking technophilia: "MOOCs are designed to impose, not improved learning, but a new business model on higher education, which opens the door for wide-scale profiteering. Public institutions of higher education then become shells for private interests who will offer small grants on the front end and reap larger profits on the back end."
- Moody's: "In a report released Wednesday, the ratings agency outlines how every traditional revenue stream for colleges and universities is facing some sort of pressure." And remember, universities get their "marching orders" from the bond raters.
- More guns in schools? An ethnographer's perspective
- Race, gun control and unintended consequences
- "In fact, there are indications that the police actually lead to increased violence in schools."
- Lessons from the school bus strike in NYC
- "JSTOR is a rent extraction mechanism that perpetuates fundamental inequalities—with researchers and faculty from powerful institutions being granted yet another competitive edge over those who were less fortunate, less wealthy, or simply born in the wrong place. But this is still an understatement. Paywalls constitute a denial of access to the knowledge published by US colleges and universities to the public at large. Their function is to engineer scarcity and exclusion, creating extra incentives for students to fund their education by incurring heavy debts within the Anglo-American educational and financial complex."
- Academe is complicit in the death of Aaron Swartz; "In pursuing a harsh punishment for Swartz, [former MIT President Susan] Hockfield placed herself in the vanguard of a new generation of collegeadministrators who have actively sought confrontations with activistelements on their campuses."
- Unraveling the fraying edges of zero tolerance