This Week in Art Crime
...woke up the entire place was in darkness. It was just a bit eerie, being there all alone. I wandered around for 10 minutes looking for a security guard to...
Against Students
...Complaining, censorious, and over-sensitive, university students are destroying their own institutions. Wait, seriously? People think that? An earlier version of this essay was posted at the blog feministkilljoy What...
Race, Recognition, and Exotica
...even though I’m usually only called exotic by men, and usually when the context makes me think I’m being sexualized just the teensiest bit, there’s a part of me that...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.13.12
...vaguely "empowering" but that, in truth, is anything but—and that caters more to a male fantasy of female power than women's actual fantasies of their own power. Wee bit of...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...Christmas pageant, 1930, plus witch. My parents raised me in the Methodist church, halfheartedly. The “halfhearted” part would come as no surprise to anyone seated within two...
Picture Pluperfect
...now consider us, positioning ourselves precisely away from the complexities of reality and staring into our glowing, well-connected digital Claude-glass screens. This is contrary to the belief that the Internet...
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
Ramadan Diaries: Analysis
...the idea of Rumi as a historical figure lodged itself into my thoughts. His name is often casually mentioned (a bit too casually) in conversations about mindfulness, or some other...
Knocked Out Loaded
...to people, unwittingly if not against their will. This is because most who have ingested a standard dosage will exhibit within fifteen minutes a troubling combination of physical docility and...
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...