Between the Bars
...that Fitzgerald mastered in his best writing—the kind that no amount of alcohol can assuage. Jessica Ferri is a writer living in Brooklyn. You can find her at jessicaferri.com....
Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
...in her cover-story interview with Allure makes it spike in lookups at Merriam-Webster.com. Sabbath Sharpie: Perhaps inspired by the recent case of an Orthodox Jewish woman suing Lancôme over the...
Theory Porn
...forms and articulations of patriarchy place women in impossibly tangled ideological positions. (I learned that from Dick Hebdige.) Send your thoughts to [email protected] What Myra’s theorizing does help with is...
You Drank Some Darkness
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/09/Teju-Cole-You-Drank-Some-Darkness.mp3 Stand here and look out at the steady fact of the sea. Like a closed door, it gives you little. Behind you is the museum, and...
Border Control
...are increasingly in air-conditioned bunkers in Nevada carrying out attacks on huts halfway around the world. Still from LowDrone.com MH: With the Low Drone project, you’re playing with the viewer’s...
Dating Games
...efficiency. (And if you’re on a date through OkCupid’s new “Crazy Blind Date” app—which Jezebel’s Katie J.M. Baker recently called the “Worst Idea Ever”—then the pressure to perform is compounded...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Sarah Leonard Speaks at Occupy the Page
...the Indypendent, Sarah Leonard of DISSENT and The New Inquiry, and Nathan Schneider of Waging Nonviolence and occupywriters.com . Theodore Kerr of 12th StreetJournal, moderates. 12th Street is the award-winning...
IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/02/Ivan-Trailer-.mp4 IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism, a debut composition by POWERHOUSE, explores the notion of using architecture and design as a vehicle for self-transformation by holding the design...
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
TNI Syllabus: Gaming and Feminism
...to Willie [at] TheNewInquiry.com. And thanks to everyone who helped compile this list–please see the bottom of the syllabus for a list of contributors. Context and Re actions: T he...
Great Dads
...Great Dad for Dummies, the brain child of the three New Zealand–based entrepreneurs, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, and Eric Mooij, who launched the website DIYFather.com after recognizing "the need for...
"As an American writer" (Toni Morrison on Colbert)
...interested to note that Vox Dot Com has a headline in which they declare: I saw a few people passing that framing around on twitter, and I was surprised. I...
Muckrakers, Inc.
...asked him what his college mascot was. “I went to Brooklyn College,” he said. “So, the gefilte fish.” Send your thoughts to [email protected] Whatever your politics—and mine, I admit, aren’t...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
...down? Pocket change: Shine.com breaks down exactly how much it costs to look like Jennifer Aniston (cloning not included). The grand total? $141,037. Girl in Front of Mirror, Pablo Picasso,...
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
...wished they were somewhere, anywhere else. It was quite a comedown. On the band’s previous North American tour, in 1983, Discharge had played sold-out shows to thousands. Up-and-coming thrash metal...