Charity Assets
...it up. Couchsurfing is a social travel site founded in 1999. Members around the world offer each other a free place to stay on their travels, and “share their life,...
My David Bowie
...control. I'm not sure why that memory returned to me when I heard that David Bowie was dead. Partly it was because of his song "Cat People (Putting Out Fire),"...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Just Play
Ruminations on the themes of McCoy Tyner’s life on the occasion of his passing
Secondary Modern
...accurately encapsulate the philosophical consciousness of enlightenment modernity. Given the cluster of useful terms derived from the notion of the modern — which, after all, most simply means a privileging...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: (un)Witness #20, #22, #34
...The deployment of violence emerged as an early pre-emptive measure even before the Waki Commission or the ICC entered the picture. Shortly after the end of the PEV, on 8...
Beach Body Bingo (and Me on the Today Show)
...done, and so on. When a friend suggested going to the beach, everyone else present nodded vigorously, but at first I wasn’t quite sure what that might have to do...
Mr Encyclopedia
...won freedom and deploys it as though such freedom were the most natural thing in the world, that the natural will of painting is to be free in flesh and...
Kippers for Breakfast
..."Breakfast in America" I haven't spent much time in Texas, but I'm pretty sure that everyone there is not a millionaire. I never saw anyone in Texas or anywhere else...
Work Appropriate
...the mermaids!) and guides to thrift store shopping. Whether she's examining how brands have the power to create community or the intersections between visibility, cosmetics, and self-harm, Cassie's reflective, inquisitive...
Sunday Reading
...the academy: Librarians and the question of service "Adjunctivitis" Make college free "Universities need de-bureaucratization, not more technologized bureaucracy." We will bring everyone: Abolishing "the box" and administrative violence at...
Fight for the Future
On Mauna Kea hundreds are holding a refuge and defending land from the proponents of false progress
Thoughts on a Word: Exotic
...make sure that newly liberated women didn’t get too much actual power and were left pecking around for crumbs, the use of exotic morphed to make sure that women of...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...sure that the value of things is general is made more unstable, tethering us more securely to the lucrative communicative circuits that keep us up-to-date on what is socially valued...
Body Image Tips From Plato
...blame this on patriarchal culture, but I’m pretty sure it’s more complex than that. of DeeDeeness? For some weird reason,*** in my mind the Ideal Form of DeeDee isn't characterized...
Beauty Work and Intrinsic Motivation
...to look at there, but in thinking about intrinsic motivation—the reward that comes simply from performing the act in question, as opposed to simply our internal reasons for doing something—I'm...