The Conundrum of Body Hair
...that maybe they didn’t need to be managed in every facet of their life, well, we’d better come up with a way to make sure they had to manage them...
Bad Vibes
...the past several weeks. “Are you sure it’s not just coincidence that you’ve kept seeing him?” This in London, a city of ten million people. One is unlikely to encounter...
The Berkley Horse
...Dr. Mipstein: Mr. Brodkey, I’m not sure what you’re talking about… James Brodkey: I couldn’t move. I was all black and blue. Dr. Mipstein: [But your property upstate, they’ve brought...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...you sure it’s not all in your head? You been giving people attitude perhaps? Maybe if you just think positive and watch The Secret and wish upon a star, you...
The Captive Audience
...aftermath. You have to tell your friends why you’ll not be available by phone, except in cases of emergency. You have to make sure to bring a jacket, wear comfortable...
We Have No Idea What Aging Looks Like
...style herself in a matronly fashion. (I don’t know enough about celebrity fashion to say for sure, but I’m guessing that she ushered in today’s era, when celebrities over 50...
Woody Allen’s Good Name
...people’s lives—it isn’t necessary for me to err heavily on the side of “we need to be really fucking sure that the accused did it.” It’s a good thing, generally,...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.1.13
...a man that I simply couldn't be wearing them because I actually like wearing them is—hmm, more insulting or annoying? Not sure. Mirror mirror: There's this idea out there that...
Regulating Ruins
...is to come simply a repackaged version of what has gone before? Behind these questions lies the understanding that ruin chic masks, through its cyclical nod to regeneration, the fact...
Bitter Medicine
...medicine for privileging the study of physiology while vainly ignoring the “practical” art of healing; in his Organon der Rationellen Heilkunde, Hahnemann writes: Physicians no longer tried to see diseases...
Is There Such a Thing as the "Bipartisan Updo"?
...the social upheaval of the 1960s, what with women’s hair going loose and free and in their faces*, and voilà —tendrils are liberal; the updos behind them, conservative. So sure, why...
Quentin Meillassoux and the Crackpot Sublime
...the task of the poet in the wake of the “shipwreck” of traditional poetic form occasioned by the rise of free verse. Where he breaks with most contemporary interpreters, however,...
The History of Data is the History of Labor
...than a century as medical researchers recognized women as ideal data-gatherers—they knew their own bodies, they were increasingly educated and able to follow instructions, and their labor was free. Today,...
Seeing Red
...colorants. They also proposed comparing food coloring-related risks to peanut allergies, arguing that some people are simply more susceptible to those allergies, which is not something that has anything to...
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
Gender Fuck
...that show the complexity and broad range of pleasure and desire. I find that sex on camera heightens my experience and I value having interactions with people who have shared...