Sunday Reading
...for Meridia. Why can't the two-thirds of working mothers in the US who earn less than $30,000 a year have it all? George Wallace police department stigmatizing "Professional Agitators;" reputational...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.18.13
...and "regular" are code for "heavy" and "low-income," with classic low-socioeconomic-status indicators (outdated clothes, frizzy hair, loud makeup, tacky backgrounds on professional family-photo shots) galore. But on the flipside, not...
Arms and Legs
...School of Economics Sometimes it's important to start with numbers. When it comes to inter-generational conflict, tied as it is to stories about Oedipus and Hamlet, numbers help ensure we're...
You're Right, I Didn't Eat That
...part, it is realizing every time I do that the alternative could be disastrous. And so they seek a more carefree woman who possesses either enviable genetics or professional expertise...
City of Praise
...I pass the flat-roofed building that looks like it is shrugging, I stop and stare, eyeball it. I think: By committing to these places we are showcasing a specific vulnerability,...
Style Is Fate
...writerly milieu. Like The Goldfinch, his latest novel attempts to weigh a decade. Yet where Tartt is a listener, Pynchon is a semiotician, and so Bleeding Edge feels more like...
What 36 Looks Like
...TV mothers; instead, our 36 looks more like Kate Winslet, even if we don’t. The things keeping us from looking like Kate Winslet are more along the lines of professional...
Klein vs. Klein
...to accept that the free market right are “dismantlers of the state.” This is a common but totally erroneous conception that accepts the ideological claims of neoliberalism at face value....
A Woman Under the Influence
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
Empire Records
...emerged that the flight wasn’t coming from Guantánamo nor was it there to set anyone free. Instead, it was ferrying home a Mauritanian secretly held in Bagram for more interrogation....
In Motion
An interview with director, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about her film What is Democracy?
The "Sharing" Economy
...the exchanges. “We have returned to a time when if you do something wrong or embarrassing, the whole community will know. Free riders, vandals and abusers are easily weeded out,...
Mirror Binge
...reaction. Plus, overlaying my mirror-face with my photo-face means that the static photographs aren't necessarily representative of what I initially witnessed (though to be sure, I still have my mirror...
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...has since mostly forgotten. Simply to be able to speak it again, Carrère thinks, will set him free from this family heritage, and free from his suspicion (shared by no...
Doing it Wrong
...and now Facebook, blogs, and — always present — published works. “It” being: open, free, uninhibited, hungry, and complete female sexuality, not just flagrantly (and insultingly) used by advertisers, but...
Bartleby in the University of California: The Social Life of Disobedience
...campus declaring “Property of the Regents of the University of California; Permission to Enter or Pass Over is Revocable At Any Time.” But Occupy Cal revealed the extent to which...