The Year of Risk
...coast of some Atlantis beneath we ignore it And keep moving on the icy streets of our Little town. “Be careful,” you say, “That puddle has completely frozen. Take care...
Tender Potatoes
...first film that they shot together, and then in La chambre, filmed the day after completing Monterey. After moving to New York in 1971, at the age of 20, Akerman...
No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I
...here: You, too, can rent "Sex-Based Differences in Compliment Behavior," Language in Society, 1990, pp. 201-224, for 24 hours! With that in mind, it’s easy to see why women might...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...their classification as either parasite or as guest. The first prediction that comes up on a google search for “insect” is “insecticide.” It’s an indication that on the most quotidian...
Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics
...as Doug Rushkoff suggests, says, “I don’t believe you.” In refusing to provide a solution that nests comfortably inside the existing system of power relations, OWS both effectively denies the...
Then and Now and Never (Part 1)
...the dirt, all the shared silence to listen for murmurs, all the dogs who come from afar to smell life through meters of rock. But often, as happened today, when...
Trigger Warning Week
...This guest post from Laurie Penny comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault that should be visible from space. [author's words] *** Rape. From the Latin,...
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: How to read a health news story; watch out for aspirin. Too big to fail, too complex to regulate. Brave nun, Piketty-style pope. Time for some...
Song Yang's Vigil
Join Red Canary Song Saturday, November 30 to imagine a world where all massage parlor workers are safe and respected
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Information inundation and social deskilling
...didn't blame themselves. When I get the sense I am scrambling to keep up with my Google Reader feed or all the links flowing through on Twitter, I get overwhelmed...
Wages Versus Progress
...stagnate. It doesn’t say, feed families or obviate want or improve lives and opportunities for wage earners. The idea that fair wages should be a normal part of the calculation...
Drama for Cannibals
...premised on the idea that “human beings are inherently good, and that although convicted criminals have committed heinous crimes against other human beings, this inherent goodness still lives deep within...
Sunday Reading
...and easy to manipulate" "The TSA's Instagram feed shows the artistic side of confiscated material" ""cyber" has, in a way, returned to its dark science-fiction roots" "What the NSA needs...
Heroine: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
...emotions—anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion—that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that that women musicians have been denied access to this power.” Male fans...
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...for twenty shillings at a time, so they can feed their families for one more day. Philo Ikonya, president of PEN Kenya, and other activists stands outside Kenya's Parliament arms...