Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue
In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Hurt People
The state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education
What happens to higher education when universities can no longer hike tuition?
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism
Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
Artificial Advancements
Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
White Magic
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play