Lady Wranglers
...for young British men and women, the Tripos lost its place in the pantheon of British manliness and power. These unofficial lady wranglers had cleared major hurdles, and then society...
Seen and Unseen; An interview with the authors of a new book on police abuse footage
...which those tools are used and the systems to which those tools are assigned a certain kind of surveillance power. TB: I would agree with Marc completely. I think that...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.13.12
...since 1845.") Grody grody gross-out, Part I: "There is nothing sexier than brains and power, unless it is brains and beauty. In that spirit that I have compiled a list...
The Thin Blue Lie
...I saw that the CCRB’s imbalances reinforced the countless imbalances endemic to the criminal justice system. The resources available to civilians are paltry in comparison to the power of the...
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.
Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
What do queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique?
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...found this issue of individual aspiration—often barely concealed economic ambition—to be fundamental to understanding the allure that witchcraft commands among some members of the middle classes. The centuries-old storehouse of...
The Bitter Women of Japanese Noir
...of power, it is a form of power—a repressed form, a distorted, deformed, mutant offspring of it. The women of today’s Japanese crime fiction do have a dark, swirling energy...
"Imagine What We'll Build for One Another": an Interview with Jules Gill-Peterson
Health justice scholar Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about anti-trans policy, eugenics, and the material stakes of desire
"Art"
...[President Barack] Obama’s birthday,’ and in ‘seriously poor taste’ ”—point to the latent power of images, and a whisper of what that power might speak. Taken out of context, Cole’s...
The Killing Class
...of force, and Egon Bittner's 1970 monograph (cited in the quote above) on the police as an institution possessing coercive social power are distinguished efforts at forming a consistent theory....
Doing it Wrong
...short story collections Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? and Former Virgin, Cris Mazza asks complex questions about sex, gender, and power. The recent volume Men Undressed: Women Writers on the...
Usurer Illusion
...compacted. "The power of debt is described as if it were exercised neither through repression nor through ideology," Lazzarato writes. "The debtor is 'free,' but his actions, his behavior, are...
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.
We Have Met the Enemy
...debt? Now lest you think I sport with Professor Ross or your intelligence, let me reassure you, I found his book an interesting and, in places, a compelling read. He...
Solidarity with Grad Workers
Who is afraid of the big bad graduate student union?