We Have Met the Enemy
...the restructuring of the city’s debt. But Detroit’s municipal debt has been bought for years by, among others, professional fund managers on behalf of firefighters, policemen, nurses, and other public...
Interview: Tizz Wall, Domme, Oakland
...Interviewing Tizz Wall under her guise as a professional domme was a delight, but she actually has a panoply of guises that would have made for excellent beauty chat....
Trollope's Ralph the Heir
...tradesman's daughter who might marry above her station, or a professional trying to make a lasting contribution to human knowledge. All that is frivolity compared with ensuring that the English...
Over Easy
...applied to medical school. Even among physicians and counselors, physical traits are discussed with prominent emphasis: their professional conversations about egg donation slip from the sterile vocabulary of medicine into...
"How many avocadoes is too many avocadoes a week?"
...food, not special workouts designed to cultivate rock-hard yet slender thighs.) But no one's looking so closely. In professional and social settings, people tend to meet one another fully-clothed. And...
Exporting the Revolution
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
Review: Girl Model
...of a tweet she recently sent out to her 194 Twitter followers: #beforeidieiwanna be a professional model. I don’t think that someone is Nadya herself, who is now 17—a child,...
Canceled Message (Part Three)
...Part One here; Part Two here. Bio is a text written / deleted / rewritten on Twitter dot com for one year. That accumulation / deletion / recomposition...
Not All Nerds
...technical professionals. It’s also during this period that the character type of the “nerd” appeared in popular culture for the first time. The nerd, keyed to facility in math and...
To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted
...incredibly important for explaining why women like Croasdale — women we put on pedestals as icons of generations of young modern professionals — may have tolerated unfathomable treatment. A deeper...
“I do wish mother had a boudoir:” Hertha Ayrton’s Home Laboratory
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Selective Blindness: Ida Bengtson and the Treatment of Trachoma
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema with author Tina Hassannia @ Videology (12/14)
...cinema to the attention of Western audiences in the 1990s. A book signing will take place afterwards. 308 Bedford Ave #1 Brooklyn, NY December 14th 5 pm Free RSVP...
Dr. Jane C. Wright and the Making of Modern Oncology
...that way. Sure, a woman has to try twice as hard. But — racial prejudice? I’ve met very little of it.” Dr. Alison Jones, one of Wright’s daughters, said, “She...
Sunday Reading
...About Being Molested vintage black glamour dot tumblr dot com Who Killed Anna Mae? Frank Pasquale: Canadian populism: the rebirth of Fordnation. This is why we can't have nice mugs....
World Hair Cup 2014 Updates
...compiling the ballots for group stage: 1) Between-game hair changes. Case study: Neymar's hair is definitively remarkable, but he really upped the ante between the June 13 Brazil-Croatia match and...