Curls and the Patriarchy
...full, maternal cheeks dotted with bright blush, arched eyebrows, curled hair. That is, I saw the signs of conventional femininity more than I saw a moderator. It pains me to...
Lady Wranglers
...held a different set of challenges compared with the men. As Jones points out in her excellent book Femininity, Mathematics, and Science, 1880-1914, the women entered college generally far less...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...Charlie Glickman (inspired by moi, I'm pleased to report) looks at the cultivation of each. I'd add to his thoughts that they're part of a package of femininity: To be...
"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...was a useless strategy and could never overturn a white minority regime bent on retaining its power at any cost. At the end of the day, I said, violence was...
I Was Never a Surrealist
...grateful to be LIVING. 'To live' — the irony of writing those words on a day of death. 'Colorado.' They told me it is white. (To be white and colored!)...
Sunday Reading
...POC on the internet ViolentAcrez, Corporate Media, White Male Privilege and the Friendly Host Check It The White Man's Boner Symposium on truth and revolution: The Sojourner Truth Organization Ronald...
Folk Etymologies
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
Sunday Reading
...White: Race, Class, and the "Domiciled Community" in British India 1858-1930 Towards an Armenian-Iranian Modern: Tehran Church Architecture & Post-Revolutionary Soccer Culture Marilyn Monroe and Lady Gaga’s Korea, and Korean...
Red Planet
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Sunday Reading
...Ali Mazrui's 1979 Reith Lectures Dutch colonial atrocities Reclaim UC: Misogynist extremism On Elliot Rodger(s) The unbearable invisibility of white masculinity "the migration of rage massacres from the workplace (in...
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
...Hildegard von Bingen Received a divine inspiration and passes it on to her scribe ( Wikimedia Commons | Public Domain) With the rise of white supremacists claiming the middle ages...
Wild Wild East
...wearing traditional white robes and a headpiece, and as his angled gaze stared regally off into the distance he looked every part the warrior king. She could just imagine him...
Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Rootless and Ruthless
...for all our young lives. “We are the 99%” began as a cry of shock for many of the largely white-collar, white-skinned, educated people populating the eponymous Tumblr blog in...
Narrative of Fragments
...in the white hat and the man in the black hat at the Boston Marathon, captured by this iPhone, captured by that cell phone, ten to twenty minutes before the...
Burning Man Is Grey
...and replaced in the sky by a simple white disc, a blank sky sigil of NASA-ready interplanetary ruin porn. And then your vision suddenly sharpens again as you cut your...