Being Boys
Make masculinity and its traces quake at the impending danger creeping up on it
Dogshit Orgasm
...such insidious business practices. On grasscity.com, Gods Boner [sic] from Delaware responds to the thread “How Do They Name Weed,” writing, “People just make shit up. My first grow I...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...instead. 4. THAT I never expected those I moved against to come into power. 5. THAT both bribery and threats are effective tools to buy a witness. 6. THAT if...
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
...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....
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...end of a hand-held transceiver.6 Patrol two to center, the voice repeats. Come in. I’m here, on the spot…Moulay Youssef, Boulevard Moulay Youssef. Come in. No one answers him. After...
Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...lamp to light the universe, let him see the earth as a mere speck compared to the vast orbit described by this star, and let him marvel at finding this...
The Secret Shopper
...to counter the frowns of the surly stock boy. Witness claims made by mystery-shopper providers, such as this one from Customer Feedback LLC: “96% of dissatisfied customers do not complain...
Not All Nerds
...nerd persecution ends. One can be forgiven for finding the comparison of “nerd persecution” to the oppression of black Americans more than a bit glib. But for the filmmakers, it...
Opening the Gate
...England was a little bit like that. We need to go back. We need to go back. And then I came back to Côte d’Ivoire, and my writing has changed....
Spy vs. History
...says we don’t share a common humanity?” The closing torture sequence is shockingly original and a little bit unhinged (it leads the narrator into a mind-body crisis). But it also...
Teaching While Black
...group of exceptionally sharp students, we were all feeling a bit playful. Students don’t tease me very often, so I was tickled and amused by the exchange between a few...
Trailing after Tarzan
...only functions to excuse and obfuscate what remains as an underlying but still effectively felt message. That the movie is more complicated, more nuanced, more multi-valenced, even more contradictory and...
Coldplay: Live at the Self-Checkout
Coldplay’s exciting new collaboration with grocery-store self-checkout aisles pushes the boundaries of automation, commerce, and art.
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
...2013, and then again in 2015. First as tragedy and then as farce. These sorts of things happen, a bit like forest fires. You can track down the place where...
Why You Gotta Be So Sensitive?
...“dermatitis” bit: there’s irritant dermatitis, in which a product makes your skin itch or redden or blister for no apparent reason, and allergic dermatitis, in which your body has an...