Beauty Backfire
...off completely, thankfully—that is, thankfully for my “ick” threshold, not simply for vanity, as I wound up accessorizing my manicure with a waterproof Band-Aid—but it was troublesome for days, and...
The Missing Medium
...adult sexual fantasies very effectively.” Yet, when we expand the medium to include systems real-world hookup platforms like Grindr, the fantasy fulfillment games made by the company Thrixxx (including works...
This Week in Art Crime
...woke up the entire place was in darkness. It was just a bit eerie, being there all alone. I wandered around for 10 minutes looking for a security guard to...
Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
...It has stayed with us as a popular bit of anti-abortionist propaganda, illuminating the supposedly depraved underpinnings of family planning. And yes, family planning was enlisted in quite a lot...
Sunday Reading
...the restroom" "Women are apparently still a bit too exotic for the intrepid men." "Santana told police that he bought the animal for $200 at a gas station." Jacob Remes:...
Housewife Demonology
heteropessimism of the will, cruel optimism of the spirit
Hunger Gamesmanship
...and comfortably could now be saved by the factory owner, or spent on himself. Of course, he still needed workers to manage the machines. But only unskilled workers, and not...
Bodies of Water
...left side of his skull, the bit behind the ear with a bullet mark… a few teeth and bits of bones and a foot. When a foot, or a piece...
The Carceral State
...are prisons gender segregated, but quotidian practice inside mandates the group fantasy of gender normativity. This is a bit of a different argument than suggesting that we only pay attention...
Kitchen Wisdom
...into which I could spit the offending morsel. My culinary misadventures in Chile didn't end with that bit of bull's bull-hood. Everywhere I went it seemed bad food lurked. Chicken...
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...quality. But I'm assuming that sales don't cover the operating costs? Well thank you. We do make an effort. Funds come from a variety of sources. Worldreader gives us seed...
When Blogger Comes Marching Home
...clothes, and it could affect my level of comfort in my own body. I'm not talking being artifically slim; I've found my "happy weight," and when I began writing the...
Feral Memes
...interspersed with dozens of images of cats, often posing with ISIS militants. These tweets were written in humorous LOLspeak and identified their subjects, with a bit of clever wordplay, as...
Preservation Society
...even bottled my own wine, but I had yet to pickle or preserve. Such kitchen arts had always seemed unduly complicated -- all paraffin, pressure cookers, and mason jars. A...
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Beautiful Weapons
...mechanical zones followed by scavenging a hideous trashscape for spare parts to repair my broken Hitachi and cum my brains out. I’ve made a game about communicating nonverbally with alien...