Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
come on, get it!
with Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedia and the Online Etymology Dictionary
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
By Robert Davis
Stuck on the Chaise Lounge: The Female Subject in Psychiatry from Pathology to Prozac
By Sophie Putka
August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
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
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
A Redacted Archive
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
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
Immortal Techniques
23andMe makes the human body immortal at last
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Groupthinkers
A review of Divining Desire (OR Books) by Liza Featherstone