The Year of Risk
...coast of some Atlantis beneath we ignore it And keep moving on the icy streets of our Little town. “Be careful,” you say, “That puddle has completely frozen. Take care...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...their classification as either parasite or as guest. The first prediction that comes up on a google search for “insect” is “insecticide.” It’s an indication that on the most quotidian...
No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I
...here: You, too, can rent "Sex-Based Differences in Compliment Behavior," Language in Society, 1990, pp. 201-224, for 24 hours! With that in mind, it’s easy to see why women might...
Tender Potatoes
...first film that they shot together, and then in La chambre, filmed the day after completing Monterey. After moving to New York in 1971, at the age of 20, Akerman...
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: How to read a health news story; watch out for aspirin. Too big to fail, too complex to regulate. Brave nun, Piketty-style pope. Time for some...
Trigger Warning Week
...This guest post from Laurie Penny comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault that should be visible from space. [author's words] *** Rape. From the Latin,...
Then and Now and Never (Part 1)
...the dirt, all the shared silence to listen for murmurs, all the dogs who come from afar to smell life through meters of rock. But often, as happened today, when...
Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics
...as Doug Rushkoff suggests, says, “I don’t believe you.” In refusing to provide a solution that nests comfortably inside the existing system of power relations, OWS both effectively denies the...
Song Yang's Vigil
Join Red Canary Song Saturday, November 30 to imagine a world where all massage parlor workers are safe and respected
Not this. More that!
...“I am satisfied.” It is how we process an experience that feeds us. Experiences that feed us can satisfy us. Satisfaction names an evaluative act: not simply “it feels good,”...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Northern Exposure
...proverb Codfish covered thousands of acres, enough to feed an army. "A piscatorial paradise!," as Caton himself remarked. But when he sat down to his first meal aboard that Norwegian...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
Sunday Reading
...lead is played out" "Together, we can end barfing. Let's hold hands. And then wash them furiously in scalding water." "If there's no water and no feed, you move the...
❒ she ❒ i ✔ haze
..."what’s a kiss?" earlier wendy was talking for no reason, now she won't talk (a feminine paradox, a feed-back effect of lutropin). she approaches peter and her lips slightly open...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Four
...I use it up until it evaporates, tucking it away for another month, another year, where I'll feed voraciously on it again. Spontaneously, I look up the etymology of the...