Work, Supermodel
madison moore’s new book, Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, centers the present history of black and brown queer ballroom culture
Blogs Round Up
...to ravage its source, unprotected wilderness. In 1837 a journalist voiced concern about “the damage done to forests by bee hunters.” Good Christians, he observed, become half-crazed when searching for...
Dream Workers
A review of Nabokov’s Dreams
Staff at Wits University Threatened
...system. Every academic in South Africa should write to Adam Habib ([email protected]) to protest in the most forceful terms available against this act of professional intimidation against our colleagues....
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Achilles 2.0
...secular and largely peaceful uprisings. Both revolutions are the latest examples of the inextinguishable capacity of humankind to act collectively and consciously, in accordance with the principles of liberty and...
Feast and Famine
...and the infrastructure of refrigeration. Food connects individual bodies to the circuits of production, but that linkage is never clean or even. Eating is messy, storage is messy, distribution is...
Can't Wait Forever
...forced on them. The need to formulate the idea and reality of reservations was necessary for the United States to reappropriate surrounding land for the purposes of infrastructure development, resource...
A Heaven of Hell
...they share with each other. Both their stage names, which each kept all his life, are collaborations. Hell describes searching for the perfect reference to a French poet, why nothing...
Ego depleted
...convenience cannot be simply searching for something even more convenient. The human's capacity for rational choice, such as it is, is an alibi for capitalism precisely because it is the...
The Daddest Place on Earth
...guerrilla film portrays the surreal and sometimes horrific last day of a family vacation in Orlando. Sold in its promotional materials mostly as a sort of horror-sci-fi, the film’s generic...
Emergency Supplies
...funding for art (unlike the US, for instance, which has for better or worse built up a system of corporate sponsorship), this represents a significant threat to the national infrastructure...
Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project
...that over 30 million adults had received less than an eighth-grade education during the 1930s, and the WPA provided the infrastructure of schools and teachers that later contributed to America’s...
Frequently Asked Questions
...benefits such as free entry to TNI events, discounts on TNI merch and print productions, and a membership card. During May and June 2015, subscribers will also gain entry into...
Sunday Reading
...Tsiang “One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation And The Birth Of The Professional Police Force "Puerto Ricans are not only demanding an end to the forms of vulnerability that austerity measures have...