Then and Now and Never (Part 2)
...is this sense of human scale that most misfires in the Then and Now sliders, with an effect that would be comic in a different scenario, as giants stride up...
FIC.THE.SKY
Livestream fictioning from the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom
You Drank Some Darkness
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/09/Teju-Cole-You-Drank-Some-Darkness.mp3 Stand here and look out at the steady fact of the sea. Like a closed door, it gives you little. Behind you is the museum, and...
Dating Games
...efficiency. (And if you’re on a date through OkCupid’s new “Crazy Blind Date” app—which Jezebel’s Katie J.M. Baker recently called the “Worst Idea Ever”—then the pressure to perform is compounded...
Black Friday, Or the Circulation of Commodities
...Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay," connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses more or less every...
You Are Too Much
...overlyattachedgirlfriend.com The Overly Attached Girlfriend's desire isn't oriented towards sex or even a boyfriend; both are just means to maximal intensity of feeling This is the age of...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...thin imperative is a part of eating disorders, yes. But it's dangerous to simplify an enormously complex disease as being about one thing. Cat's cradle: Jessica Wakeman puts the Cat...
Coming & Crying
...An interesting project to be aware of: Coming & Crying. Coming & Crying is an effort by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell to publish a new book...
Dancing Days
...Throw making money off of sex into that equation, and the stakes are raised. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. But when Mike says those lines, we actually believe...
The Origins of American Women’s Exercise
...and identity. Committed to changing women’s lives by transforming their bodies, experts promoted exercise as a strategy for more effectively inhabiting feminine roles and for elevating domestic labor to the...
Toward a Feminist Astrobiology
...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....
No Hay Nada
...and handed me a rose. Will the quest for dollars triumph in the end, throwing Cuba into the global marketplace and obliterating its alluring Send your response to [email protected] difference?...
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...means to think more critically about the center, and complicate its claims of moral and political right. David Manning, 'A Tale of Two (or Three) Marches' Unlike 1968, this [2003]...
Already Pretty Giveaway
...Sally will be giving away a signed copy of Already Pretty to a reader of The Beheld chosen at random from all comments on this post (whether at the-beheld.com, The...
Speak/Now
...nothing is assured. Send your thoughts to [email protected] We see another precarious return to an older theme on Speak Now‘s (appropriately) final track, “Long Live.” On Swift’s first album, “Mary’s...
"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
...labor Instead, she brings back a commodity that is radically defetishized, a commodity that is nothing but the thing that disappears when you fetishize a commodity: the labor of its...