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...
Health Equity Capture
How the weight-loss industry Uses Black celebrity in the Ozempic era
Mind Games Forever
...all programming, are composed of series of “transactions,” in which participants inhabit one of three “ego states,” Child, Parent, or Adult (corresponding to Freud’s id, superego, and ego). Transactional analysis...
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
...perhaps for symbols of commonplace joy (sunlight, ice cream); sample from the wealth of data that supports all the good sense that hospice makes; and finally paint a solemn and...
The Albatross Around Johnny Depp's Brain
...from a long tradition of Orientalizing portraits of American native peoples, starting in the 18th century and earlier. And I suspect that Sherman Alexie's "Crow Testament" has a bit more...
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...
The Other Foot
...parents. Apparently they come from money. Lots and lots of money. It doesn’t give kids a good message, you know? Who can afford a pair of designer shoes when you’re...
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...
The Selfless Man
...see him embody our slogans emerges as much from empathy and communal understanding as it does from reverence. There is a little bit of Jacob in all of us. It...
Housewife Demonology
heteropessimism of the will, cruel optimism of the spirit
Migratory Words
...to connect with people. In Evaporating Borders, that last poem for me is basically what makes the film. Can you talk a little bit about the poem? My translator Zahra...
Live Through This
...McElroy points out, “there can be as many motives for rape as there are for murder and other violent crimes ... Rape is every bit as complex.” Insisting that no...
American Sajaegi
...the efforts of passionate volunteers to improve their favorite artists’ chart position and another, different type of campaign that tends to be waged in secret by “marketing companies” working at...
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...
Dinner with Lydia Maria Child
...Ticknor. Exercise of his “influence in the literary and fashionable world” did cause sales of her “unfortunate book” to pick up, and she found herself “a little wee bit of...
The Slopes of Davos
...against the planet’s true masters of improvisation. But the assignment of blame gets a bit confusing. “Interestingly, respondents to the Global Risks Perception Survey connected antibiotic-resistant bacteria to failure of...