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Security Theater

By Emily Elizabeth BrownSeptember 4, 2015
What crisis actor conspiracy theorists believe to be fake implies a much more generous view of the real
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Hall of Mirrors

By Elena GrecoSeptember 3, 2015
A self is not true or false when it is illegible, uncontained
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Fossil Fools

By Branden AdamsAugust 31, 2015
The fossil fuel-based economy seems impossible to leave behind, but it’s only as immoveable as it is profitable.
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Scents of an Ending

By Mahmoud MrouehAugust 28, 2015
The #YouStink protests will either consign the Lebanese regime to the dustbin of history, or go in its place.
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The Jewish Messiah

By Alex CocotasAugust 27, 2015
A new documentary about former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's murderer hits too close to home for Israeli authorities
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How to Win Tinder

By Alicia Eler and Eve PeyserAugust 26, 2015
Tinder involves managing the vulnerability of “putting oneself out there” by playing it like a video game
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MPREG versus Homonormcore

By Owen ParryAugust 24, 2015
There is perhaps nothing more “normal” than teen girls fantasizing about boy-on-boy relationships and male pregnancy
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My Father’s Sign

By Stephanie BaileyAugust 20, 2015
When a father dies, you are left with at once so many stories and never enough.
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Daddy O

By Matthew LawrenceAugust 19, 2015
Gay porn works out the complexities of filiation and paternity the hardcore way
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The Bod of the Father

By Vishnu StrangewaysAugust 17, 2015
The dad bod dad is not so much a person as an organizational principle of patriarchy
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The Paradox of Progress

By Anna ZettAugust 14, 2015
In Jurassic World, all modern concepts have merged with their opposite, so nothing is able to change
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She Mad and She Magic

By Muna MireAugust 13, 2015
Black women's anger towards supposed allies is never taken for the self-preserving force it is
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The Monster and the State

By Callie MaidhofAugust 12, 2015
It’s easier to condemn a hate crime than a war crime, especially on occupied land.
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You Deserve It, Sweetie

By CasparAugust 11, 2015
Getting paid for sex upholds the fantasy of unconditional love by masking the very real conditions of lovability
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Coming to America

By Yahdon IsraelAugust 10, 2015
On becoming African-American
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Feasts Under the Bridge

By Devin KennyAugust 7, 2015
Let’s look at trolling, and what it really is, in its purest form.

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