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Why These Tweets Are Called My Back

By Shaadi DevereauxDecember 19, 2014
So-called Toxic Twitter is made up of marginalized women of color for whom social media started out as yelling into the void and became a grassroots movement
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Distracted by Attention

By Jason ReadDecember 18, 2014
As an increasingly transforming metric can attention be understood in terms of an economy? On Yves Citton's Pour Une Écologie de l'Attention
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The Honeyed Siphon

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 17, 2014
For 14 years I have lived a hamfistedly biopolitical life, in which all food is quanta and my blood talks in numbers.
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Host in the Shell

By Sara Black McCullochDecember 16, 2014
Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure
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Weight Gains

By Vicky OsterweilDecember 15, 2014
Capitalist agriculture has found the best spot to store its surplus: in the bodies of workers
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What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?

By Adia BentonDecember 11, 2014
Centuries of colonial domination have the leaders of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea more focused on not exporting Ebola than on curing it within their borders.
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Of Suicide

By Natasha LennardDecember 10, 2014
Questions of intent can’t get to the real roots of suicidal experience
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Softer Than Softcore

By Nitin K. AhujaDecember 9, 2014
ASMR and the post-pornographic pleasures of diagnosis
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The Sororal Death

By Anne BoyerDecember 8, 2014
Writing about a disease suffered almost exclusively by women presents the disordering question of form
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Who Cares

By Laura Anne RoberstonDecember 5, 2014
The supposedly natural emotions of love and compassion are used to compel many people, especially women, to work for free
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Crazy in Love

By Hannah BlackDecember 4, 2014
Caring for someone with a mental illness forces you beyond all conventional measures of worth or meaning
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Daughters Have Their Own Agenda

By Tiana ReidDecember 2, 2014
White supremacist heteropatriarchy blames black women for the "absent black father," invisibilizes the women who most suffer from that father's absence, and uses that invisibility as the foundation of male identity
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Keeping Kayfabe

By Ben GabrielDecember 1, 2014
Pro wrestling plays out important narrative contradictions about competition and collusion, but academic analyses rarely get past calling it 'fake' and 'gay'
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The Speech of Things

By Léopold LambertNovember 25, 2014
When objects are called on to give legal testimony, it forces lawyers, architects and designers to rethink their practices.
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Queering the Void

By Christopher J. LeeNovember 21, 2014
For all its straight lines and family homes, Orange County can’t hide the reality of its bourgeois drag
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Boom and Rust

By Meagan DayNovember 20, 2014
A Gold Rush ghost town embalms the risks that haunt all California settlements.

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