“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
Service-Animal Liberation
Debates about the propriety of where animals belong reveal how we apprehend human suffering in isolation
(a jet lagged mess)
...the streets. There are traffic cops with assault rifles everywhere. Cops with guns are banal; surveillance is routine. To pass from the street into the inside, you must be screened....
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Vampire architecture
...Low-rent cousin of The Hardware. Where the diurnal undead mill about forever on shag that never quite feels dry, not ever. From the inestimable terriblerealestateagentphotos.com...
Women’s Work in Natural History Museums
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Where State Politics Meets Gender Politics: Chien-Shiung Wu and the Manhattan Project
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The Sigil Begins
...houses and writing, speaking, or engaging there with a cohort of other squatters until whatever it is we're doing is identified and stamped out or commercialized. Or until a skillful...
Inessential No. 3
Inessential No. 1 and No. 2 debuted as an installation in "Between the Walls" at Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in...
Evan Calder Williams and Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: The Letters Reading
...month at one of our favorite bookstores, Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, you can listen to the full audio here: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/12/ECWandMMLG-Read-letters.mp3|titles=ECWandMMLG-Read-letters] Recording courtesy of Alessandra Guarino and Koshy Daniel (@Sababarbathioth)...
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...a player: in other words, to emulate Bartleby, who simply “prefers not to.” What would passive resistance do to online dating? We looked to Melville for an answer. Bartlebea the...
Rhythms of Change: The Victorian Science Poems of May Kendall
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Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century
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Black Liberation Theory: Insurgent Philosophy & the Black Radical Legacy @ Brecht Forum
...and western imperialist oppression. First class Feb 6 7:30-9:30 pm Sliding scale: $95-$125 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers Register Brecht Forum @ The Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY...
Growing Up TV
...company of novels and the Internet, I’d spent my childhood idealizing a set of norms that their various characters all had in common. They nearly always seemed to somehow not...
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
...By Meryl Alper By default, synthetic speech has historically represented voices emanating from adult, white, male, and cisgender bodies . Machine-generated voices reflect the backgrounds of professionals in disciplines...