Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics
Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012
...something one should respect; when it comes to self-presentation, shouldn’t authenticity trump strain, ease trump effort? Sometimes, sure. But I’m certain I’m not the only woman who would find it...
The Real Beach Lives of Miami
...religiously since 1986, have diligently and gleefully attempted to make into a rite of passage for American children. If anyone is complicit in the rape culture of spring break, it’s...
M and A
...gestures downwards) will start (he gestures upwards). He plays with the gesture a little until it turns into a little bit of a dance. He watches his arm happily. Gets...
Sunday Reading
...started a new book, Pomegranate Soup. I wrote it in 6 weeks flat—I just constantly wrote, and ate!" "A rabbit can travel quite comfortably in a car, but you will...
The Space NDN's Star Map
...come naturally to the space NDN. The all-pervasive “force” or similarly the super brain connecting all beings. The animism and agency of cyborgs, AI systems, and other non-human people. Alternate...
Our Man in Great Neck
...him in the USSR. It helped him actually. He was absolutely fearless. He was the impetus that propelled us on because I was a little bit concerned. And he said...
The Stages of Not Going on T
From Something That May Shock And Discredit You
An assortment
...have different hair-care requirements. There's a bit more specificity in the article than the headline, although it isn't clear why these various hair textures must be assembled in one column....
Sunday Reading: July 23, 2023
...Los Angeles or New York, but has become a national issue. “It's a little bit startling that the supply of low rent units is falling everywhere,” Sophia Wedeen, research analyst...
More Could Have Happened With That Subplot
...happen with father jack. thank you, yes i will let you know if other questions come up you mean this as title? Totally, that was a bit snarky but also...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!
The normalization of disability as an empowered status purportedly recognized by the state is produced through the creation and sustaining of debilitation on a mass scale
Portrait of the Artist as a Rookie Cop
...the relief this seclusion brings the officers is inverse to their connection to the community. The more they are merely foreign occupiers, the more they enjoy the view, a view...
Girl Talk
...said what we both knew you’re supposed to say upon receiving a compliment, the words that, with luck and effort, could lead to chatter of other cross-weather shoes, which could...
Beach Body Bingo (and Me on the Today Show)
...bit of news: I’m going to be on the Today show sometime soon [breaking news, apparently] talking mirror fasting. I’m pleased that this is beginning to be talked about as...