Kid Stuff
...photo via squareamerica.com If childhood is supposed to be a time for play, why do today’s kids spend so much time working? In the past month, I’ve attended...
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Mexican Is Not a Race
Poet Wendy Trevino argues that a radical new Chicanx politics means forging an identity based on shared political struggle, not myths of racial homogeneity--an idea rooted in anarchist struggles along the Texas-Mexican border a century ago
Fat and Happy—and Loved
...works on her blog and on her Twitter, @EmilyTimbol. She can also be reached by email, at [email protected] ____________________________ One of the stupidest quotes I’ve ever heard is, “Nothing tastes...
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
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Deregulated Votes
...that were won by Democrats in the 2016 Presidential Election: California New York Source: eac.gov [State Requirements and the Federal Voting System Testing and Certification Program, PDF] justice.gov/crt/jurisdictions-previously-covered-section-5 cnn.com/election/results...
Weather
...may all do it, but we almost always wish we were talking about something else. Conversation about the weather is supposed to reflect an alienated lack of common subject matter:...
This Is Going to Hurt
Serious challenges to the status quo will be met with panic and repression
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...Karl is wearing TimeWise® Firming Eye Cream, .5 oz., $30, marykay.com or your nearest Mary Kay lady Near the top of the dry erase board where I keep...
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...on her research and paid close attention to the feeding schedule, diet, and growth of her jellies. Many of her published findings in the Irish Naturalist surprised the biology community,...
Get real
...efforts of ordinary people to make their lives livable and feel like somebody, was just coming into focus, but it was not yet clear what innovations would be deployed to...
Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and the Language of Denigration
...between disease and free will. The evolutionary sciences, alcoholism, and pregnancy, examined together, illuminate the complicated dynamics between moral intuitions and social judgements about women, scientific research, and political policies,...
Then and Now and Never (Part 2)
...by the earthquake, even from afar and even in thought alone, takes time. It resists either consolation or distillation into single examples, the two processes that seem, for better or...
Already Pretty Giveaway
...Sally will be giving away a signed copy of Already Pretty to a reader of The Beheld chosen at random from all comments on this post (whether at the-beheld.com, The...
Being Boys
Make masculinity and its traces quake at the impending danger creeping up on it