Hollywood's Drug War
...-- a murderer -- is one of the good guys. We watch the formerly flush assassin try to feed his family on beans and salsa because the Salvadoran justice system...
Die progressive Paralyse
...resemblences. Conclusion: ? While its arrangement was undoubtably an emanation of pre-existing texts, as, as it would be shown later, were these texts themselves combo effects of precursory texts which...
Gold Star, Brown Family
...the invasion into Iraq that killed this fallen Captain, whose parents she used as pawns. A war like this has done a lot to feed the same fear that bigots...
The Revolution Goes Kablooie
...so fast that it went careening completely out of sight? This is, to some degree, the question posed by Adam Thirlwell’s new novel Kapow!, a cyclonic attempt to novelize what...
Liberation:Transmission
...enslaved. News that would feed dreams. News that would create new energy. News that would fuel alternative ways of imagining being and being together. Revolution Clusters: Haiti, the U.S., France....
The Potato System
...on potatoes being carried to feed passengers on clipper ships sailing from America to Ireland. "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially...
Sunday Reading
...Love Letter to The Moth This Twitter feed Things to do in Brooklyn this weekend Me: what a honeybee looks like as it loses its stinger "The cargo cult of...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
...The maqlouba isn't ready yet and though my stomach is growling, I feed on dialogue instead. I talk at length to a friend's wife about the Muslim ban, and why...
Ranked Amateurs
...worst season. It’s a famously, perhaps unintentionally comedic scene, one which displays Nolte’s gift for brusque, mildly terrifying haranguing that he also put to startling effect in his other great...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
Anti-Anti-Parasitism
...recognize that parasites—humans and non-humans alike—feed not off of individuals but off of relationships. They interrupt the connections between an individual and his food source, between communities, between an organism...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
Homeward Bound
...still had to feed and house myself. To be processed through the carceral system is to be simultaneously exposed to the full power of American institutions and the terrifying reality...
#NotAllPublic, Heartburn, Twitter
...the other hand, the decision about whether or not to treat someone’s twitter feed as fair game is more complicated, something that cannot so easily be incorporated into self-righteous assertions...
Spotivangelism
...generalized other,” but I still feel like a creepy stalker every time I click on his (or anyone else’s) activity in my feed; social discovery sans dialogue remains deeply disconcerting....