Florence Nightingale: Of Myths and Maths
...that soldiers were far more likely to die at home or abroad during peacetime than they were during wartime because of the wretchedly unhygienic and unsanitary conditions in cities. Nightingale...
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...soldiers tenderly cradling swaddled babies. The war, we were shown, was humanitarian after all. Perhaps 200,000 did not die in vain." As with the American wars in East Asia, we're...
Variations on a Theme: #Ferguson
...to kill the slave master. Rising up out of their bondage, the rebels intended to be free in this world, or the next. Get free, or die trying. Charles Deslondes....
A Bandit is a Bandit
...die of 19 stab wounds). Yet nothing accounts for his being compared to a black man profiled by police if not a social fabric that, despite or because of a...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
Sunday Reading
...About Being Molested vintage black glamour dot tumblr dot com Who Killed Anna Mae? Frank Pasquale: Canadian populism: the rebirth of Fordnation. This is why we can't have nice mugs....
TNI Syllabus: Gaming and Feminism
...to Willie [at] TheNewInquiry.com. And thanks to everyone who helped compile this list–please see the bottom of the syllabus for a list of contributors. Context and Re actions: T he...
Nicole Kristal, Writer and Bisexual Advocate, Los Angeles
...at LGBT festivals internationally. (You can rent it for $2 at BuskFilms.com , and I suggest you do exactly that.) Author, yes—her (hilarious) book, The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe...
The Streets of Spain
...this country,” he groaned. “I’m glad they’re still marching. They should never stop marching.” Send your thoughts to [email protected] There were scores – some count it at hundreds – of...
Ghost World (Like a Bad Dream)
...Life comes back to people. Muriel’s red and green house is what is still left. What is still alive. Muriel lays Macon down to die in her bed because he...
The Question of Pain
...records, Bobby. We just want you to stop smoking crack.” Liebling says in the documentary he will not die from an overdose of crack or heroin but rather succumb to...
Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
We Have No Idea What Aging Looks Like
...die, I suppose (though our society is still so scared shitless of death that we spend 28 percent of our Medicare dollars in the last six months of life). So...
Politics of Contempt
...work and watch people die. To celebrate International Women's Day, Nyong'o fired all the striking nurses. He claimed he could conjure two thousand new doctors out of thin air. In...
Sunday Reading
...anti-austerity movement and the anti-police movement?" Some notes on the recent East Bay protests As income inequality rises, black folks die more while white folks die less Highway blockades and...