City of Brotherly Love
...When I watched the season one premiere of HBO’s Looking, about a group of gay men searching for sex and sensibility in current-day San Francisco, it was with a similar...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...the idea that there's some amazing fix-it that's only found in foreign lands? We're all Ponce de Leon, searching the globe for beauty cures (or at least perking up when...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
The Hair Back There
...to those of you who don't use their long hair as a built-in neck warmer during the winter—is coming, and in an effort to make sure my hairstyling skills wouldn't...
Kate Sheppard and the Science of Suffrage in New Zealand
...was in high demand. These shining examples of women, who had survived being educated, pursuing professions, and experiencing success, encouraged other women to pursue education and professional lives outside the...
Hanford Idyll
...Nuclear Fuels Unlimited, was contracted to vitrify the waste, a process that involves combining it with other materials to turn it into a more stable glass, which can be stored...
White Feminism and Eugenics: The Case of Gertrude Davenport
...mother, as well as primary intellectual collaborator and the co-manager of Charles’s professional life. Their work together proved foundational to the U.S. eugenics movement between 1900 and 1930, and their...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
The Viral Self
...self" remains an aspiration, even when disparate viral-content sites flame out. Social media supply the infrastructure for a kind of everyday epidemiology of oneself, of one's social infectiousness. This can...
Prefab Freedom
ATV use has soared since the pandemic started. But this new off-roading trend also rehearses familiar myths about the American west and American freedom.
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
Black Life, Annotated
...Life in an American City is the latest installment in a sociological tradition that subjects black life to scholarly scrutiny. An “urban” ethnography of a mixed-income, black neighborhood in West...
The Laughing Indian
...to the very unnatural death by destitution common in Indian populations, appears multiple times in the latest collection of Alexie stories, Blasphemy. Every zinger Alexie writes must be written at...
Sunday Reading
...globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography" hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com T.F. Charlton: "So, what was Stonewall?" - NPR's erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative. Interrogating the...
The Revolution that Wasn't
...parliamentary elections in November, the Brotherhood organized a highly professional and organized political campaign that would not have been out of place in the West, while resentment from liberals grew...
Super Position
...scion of the military-industrial complex that was created, just as he was, at the beginning of World War II. But again, in the latest movie, the subtext became surprisingly explicit...