School's Out Forever
...need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces, the competition for the best teachers should be fierce, they should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government...
This Week In Art Crime
...• • • To fight rent prices and bring a bit of whimsy to the morning commute, an unknown New Yorker set up a cardboard living room on the N...
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.
Got No Shame, Got No Pride
...male model out of International Male. Faith-era George Michael seems to owe a bit of a debt to Bonnet. The startling conceptual departure that Bonnet marked merely through his physical...
A guillotinable mass of lame
...station, I heard an actually beautiful act: coming off a carefully non-exciting exhaltation to take Him into your heart, they played U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."...
The Paper Chase
...so wildly in price. But it’s simply wrong to imagine that the history of alternative currency begins with Bitcoin, and it’s potentially harmful to ignore the much more progressive, community...
On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
...conclusion. I also sympathize with what they are trying to do, which makes me a bit uncomfortable. The way efforts to be antiracist become racist in practice is the farce...
On Ladymags and Liberty
...Jack Palance." Cheese! Left: Autumn Whitefield-Madrano. Right: Jack Palance. * * * * * My sympathies in the Birmingham/Shape bit instinctively go to Birmingham, for reasons that are...
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...to the Ancestors (2002,2008/2010) Léonora Miano’s Dark Heart of the Night (2005/2010) Edem Awumey’s Dirty Feet (2009/2011) Kossi Efoui’s The Shadow of Things to Come (2011/2013) Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady...
The Mile-Long Club: The Luxury of Eyelashes
...I found myself not “needing” eye makeup on most days, only wearing it to punch things up a bit. Normally I wear eyeliner and mascara every day, largely because it...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.9.13
...Gamble's annual report, including the head-scratcher that beauty is actually the company's least successful division—and grooming, i.e. manstuff, is its most lucrative. Plus, their advertising isn't as effective as it...
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
The Sonic Episteme
To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely
Sunday Reading
...Historic NYC Photos The Debate over Student Loan Interest is Nothing But A Sideshow: "Keeping the cost of borrowed money a bit lower for one more year won't cure the...
Hangar to Grave
...and fairly successful life in commercial service, the DC-9 now finds itself outmoded by newer and more efficient aircraft. Still, the DC-9 is not quite history. Just last year, it...
Sunday Reading
...the impulse to speak" "bloggers have reached the level of pop culture acceptance that comes w/ having a dog do their jobs for comedic effect" "since the election of Barack...