Cooties, like racial identity, pass from body to body. But how can you protect yourself from a danger that looks like yourself?

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

As an increasingly transforming metric can attention be understood in terms of an economy? On Yves Citton's Pour Une Écologie de l'Attention

For 14 years I have lived a hamfistedly biopolitical life, in which all food is quanta and my blood talks in numbers.

Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure

Capitalist agriculture has found the best spot to store its surplus: in the bodies of workers

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.

Questions of intent can’t get to the real roots of suicidal experience

ASMR and the post-pornographic pleasures of diagnosis

Writing about a disease suffered almost exclusively by women presents the disordering question of form

The supposedly natural emotions of love and compassion are used to compel many people, especially women, to work for free

Caring for someone with a mental illness forces you beyond all conventional measures of worth or meaning

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

Pro wrestling plays out important narrative contradictions about competition and collusion, but academic analyses rarely get past calling it 'fake' and 'gay'

When objects are called on to give legal testimony, it forces lawyers, architects and designers to rethink their practices.

For all its straight lines and family homes, Orange County can’t hide the reality of its bourgeois drag