Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...reviewers make it sound like Adichie’s third novel is a refraction of its author’s glamor, an aesthetic commodity to be consumed. Yemisi Ogbe wrote a long review in Chimurenga, for...
Disband West Virginia
...chemical dumping can occur? Bold Ideas We must learn from our mistakes, and fail forward. For example, many people blame deindustrialization for the immiseration of the population. But what if...
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...that examines the strategies women in health fields employed in their autobiographical literature to navigate the shifting social and medical norms of the 19th century. Contact: [email protected] or www.amandacutaiabarnett.com...
The Sabotage of Life (Sabotage Talk #4): 5/14
...could support one so unlivable. Topics include: birth strikes, Neo-Malthusian and otherwise; animation; hostile objects; material feminist urban design; slapstick; unwaged time. (Seating is limited, please register on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-the-sabotage-of-space-manual-override-lecture-4-tickets-11588885669?aff=efbevent...
Where is the Line Between Us?
...watched from the audience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nT1Xkl6xnsE At this time, many Iranians all over the the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy. They are happy not...
No Kings of New York
...wrote the album in five days. P.O.S.: No Kings is our first real collaborative album. It typically takes a lot longer. The others were more like compilations, and we wanted...
African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Dagoretti Corner begins as “the dust that has no place” and ends with “a glimmer train / of bioluminescence.” The restless land meets...
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
...title. Vogel died in April of 2012, but his contributions to film criticism and New York film culture live on. His film club, Cinema 16, which ran in the sixties,...
African Poetry: D.M. Aderibigbe
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Day One 1. Now that I have no other place to go, I’ll go into my grandmother’s fingers, wrap myself with her blanket,...
The Great Leap Forward
...this Sunday’s celebration of Frederic Tuten’s The Adventures of Mao on the Long March at www.MaoMarathon.com Patrick Harrison edits If You Can Read This You’re Lying JW McCormack is...
Violent Motion, 1
...is worth checking out. http://www.lolajournal.com/4/cinemascope.html) less theater than layers of planes, and so Mary, who is played by a man named Robert Thomae, is also a shape in a row...
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...public actually have different interests and concerns when it comes to issues like sex and contraception, that contraception means something different to people with different reproductive organs. The fact that...
Salvage, Without the Punk
...altered by non-“experts,” horribly presaging our contemporary equivalent form of dismissal (high finance as supposedly both too big to fail and too complicated to allow intervention into.) For example, when...
The Souls of Drone Folk
...Chris Kyle lived by the sword and died by it. If I were religious, I might pray for his soul. I imagine that his soul could use the...
Sunday Reading
...Dosa Masala Dosa to Die For How salli became an integral part of Parsi cuisine Honoring Mother's Day, Sumerian Style Bangladesh's female freedom fighters Ghassan Kanafani on the 1936-39 Palestinian...
Then and Now and Never (Part 1)
...did die and for those they left behind, there was never any sense to the whole idiotic enterprise of accumulation and dominance. The term has since drifted in meaning and...