Sex in Public
...synthesis while leaving the structural conditions invisibly in place. These days even bankruptcy and credit card debt can cloud over your sense of romantic self-worth—knowing you have debt fills every...
You are totally unreliable Twitter
...is doing, and treat those projections as if they were basically valid. We have to assume that we are contextualizing the text correctly. Yet proximity is often misleading, particularly if...
Consciously or Unconsciously
...his valid claim to the throne, engineers a near casualty-free coup. The only victims are that family of pretenders representative of “all decadent democracies,” in an outcome that will be...
Dear Mammy
...even working out or playing video games anymore. Damn. Sorry we didn’t get a chance to meet up to discuss my article (that you inspired!). I’m sure you’ll see it...
Daddy O
...takeover by Yahoo. They never replied to my request for an explanation.) I used to frequently hear from men who stumbled upon the site after searching some combination of the...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...and economic relationship with the West, one that actually devalues and destabilizes the infrastructure necessary to prevent and contain a disease like Ebola. After all, the three hardest hit countries...
Trash
...that can command a higher price. This leads to massive amounts of construction waste; in 2011 alone, 2 billion tons of building materials ended up as trash, most piling up...
Meat Market
...seeing is simultaneously a conscious selection of flora that was endemic to Manhattan Island prior to urbanization and the nostalgic preservation of an industrial infrastructure prior to New York’s latest...
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...could no longer pretend that this is simply an abstract and legalistic question of "religion," "government," and "medicine." It would suddenly be apparent that the female public and the male...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...the novel where I’m just completely having fun and I’m free and I’m not burdened by a sense of duty or responsibility, I was just having fun.” Something is happening...
African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com When I started reading poetry scholarship as an undergraduate, I struggled to figure out how critics were doing what they were doing. My...
Sunday Reading
...consequences of student debt The college-cost denial industry A better professional organization Great Books and the white male "universal" "[T]he University actually has a vested interest in weaning itself from...
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)
...a radical transformation of the world. It was quickly apparent that defending the bocage 2 was inseparable from inhabiting, nourishing, and building infrastructure on it, and that all of these...
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump.
Classics
...brand been girls, the movie couldn’t have been so earnest. With misogynistic irony (or is it ironic misogyny), the Tiqqun collective’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl offers...