Comedians like Tina Fey pretend to be plain to avoid the trap of being dismissed as being too pretty to be funny. This can spill over into a slut-shaming tendency that belies their faux feminism
As is the case with so much African fiction, the claims that “Bombay’s Republic” makes about history don’t so much occur in a real historiographic vacuum as they occur in the context of a long history of Africa being read as a historiographic vacuum.
In an industry predicated upon acquisitional desire, it's hard to believe that Vogue's recent announcement about banning models with eating disorders will make them "ambassadors for the message of healthy body image."
New Inquiry editor Samantha Hinds sat down with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff in the green room of Engadget TV for a discussion that ranged from Occupy Wall Street to his new graphic novel, A.D.D., about a team of speed-addled young gamers.
“The animal situation does contain a component of the human situation; if need be, the animal can be regarded as a subject for which the rest of the world is an object.” -- Georges Bataille
The numbers that survive in my phone don't belong to those boys and men who were best at fucking me, but the ones who were, and are, best at telling me how—and why, and where, and also in which places—they would fuck me.
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.