The Streets of Spain
...this country,” he groaned. “I’m glad they’re still marching. They should never stop marching.” Send your thoughts to [email protected] There were scores – some count it at hundreds – of...
Yasssss, Kween!
...own face. He describes himself as a “Holy Ghost bowlegged ethnic power bottom with a sensible community college AA in HPV, weaving and gay wizardry #lonelyoldbottom #ihavenolife.” But She Has...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
...it's being treated as something with potential instead of something already available. The singularity just may be cosmetized. Bad girls go everywhere: xoJane.com beauty editor Cat Marnell in a Vice...
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...cool voice, the narrating voice, the dispassionate commentator, even as it invites a riot or speaks over the images of one. It acknowledges the effects of what it shows and...
The Anti-Family
...encouraging a two-parent model. They make any other option out of the question. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Teen Mom does not go into these developments—they are outside the scope...
Eminent Domain
...the bottom to provide the same thing. Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — domain suffixes like .com, .net, or .org — are available to anyone. The Internet has routinely been described...
Postcard from the Internet
...com for the immigrant. But as I was moving through life saddened by the truth of this scattered sedimentation and exclusion from the world of heritage discovery, the internet came...
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
The Laughing Indian
...“Ayyyyyy,” with the explanation, “another Indian idiom.” He is translating Indians for white people, making them not only more readable but more laughable. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Political Indians,...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
I ♥ Ⓐ
...too easily suspend our disbelief that a company like Google can follow its "don't be evil" dictum despite being owned by Wall Street and rented to the NSA. Neoliberalism finds...
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
...the band skidded to a halt twelve minutes into the set. The singer, Cal, attempted a bit of bravado to counter the booing: “I love it when you talk dirty!”...
The Souls of Drone Folk
...in the Iraqis and, in the end, the city was only captured after close combat on the outskirts of Baghdad.” Note the logic of this paragraph: the desired effect was...
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...Excerpted and submitted by Zoe Sharpe. Thanks Zoe! If you have excerpts from writers you think are criminally un(der)known and we should highlight, you can send them to [email protected]...
Sex in Public
...college boyfriend, and then returned to writing with a popular and sometimes controversial dating column for The New York Post, where she worked until moving to website xoJane.com this fall....