A Vessel Among Vessels: For Laura Aguilar
Memories of a dyke bar in East LA conjure and are conjured by the work of Laura Aguilar
The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism
Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?
Routine Repairs & Earth & Dust
This is that old N.Y. dread—the frenetic running, the bleak refrigerator contents, no TIME for deep thinking or seeing friends, et. etc.—& that dread hasn’t died down yet.
The Context of Intellectual Friendship
An interview with David Scott about his book Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
Editors’ Note, Vol. 67: Chemistry
We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
Triple-Decker Weekly, 141
People don’t remember changing their minds
come on, get it!
with Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedia and the Online Etymology Dictionary
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
By Robert Davis
Stuck on the Chaise Lounge: The Female Subject in Psychiatry from Pathology to Prozac
By Sophie Putka
August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
Artificial Advancements
Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
A Redacted Archive
White Magic
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play