The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
...ahead and Tom, I swear, if you so much as start to utter the word “composition of the visual plane” one more time, I will feed you to my dogs,...
Sunday Reading
...making feminist points Maasai women on Mindy Bugdor's warrior princess online cult of the angry man why was a major art survey 91% male? don't feed the trolls AKA silence...
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
The Magnetic North
...so happens we decide that seeking them from “legitimate” authorities is normative. It’s as though the psychics were providing a live feed, a form of surveillance. Traversing such long...
Get Off
...Nature Window, 2013 I think of this new work as coming to grips with its sexual inclinations, its desires, its wants and needs, its fetishes, how it wants it, and...
Work Appropriate
...voice is one I look forward to seeing pop up in my blog feed. She's also written for The Closet Feminist, Lacquerheads of Oz, and The Peach. When I learned...
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...my feed is full of feministy fashion types and I'm one myself) often hear the idea that fashion needs to be more realistic—and a fashion illustrator who makes her trade...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.31.13
...is. (via Caitlin) Trolled: "Don't feed the trolls" is an oft-heard admonition (one I usually follow myself) 'round the internets—particularly when it comes to trolls who bait women by arguing...
Violence Is Mine
...at its margins or, to use a more appropriate metaphor, in its feed. This fuels the slippage between everyday activity and symbolic violence that characters in digital works undergo —...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.5.13
...swift for me—I've also taken a good look at my blog feed and have realized it could use a renewal. I love being able to direct you to so many...
Don DeLillo Did 9/11
...II his protagonist — a reclusive novelist — gives voice to fear that the medium is going out of fashion: The novel used to feed our search for meaning…. But...
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
Beauty Blogosphere 8.10.12
...to ye olde internet. It's a Twitter feed for your face! Disability visibility: An intriguing trio of academic papers focusing on appearance and disability: prosthetics as accessories; acceptance and rejection...
Boom and Rust
...and mercury sticks around. “The Gold Rush is still poisoning the Golden State,” she writes. Forests were clear-cut to feed gold smelters. Bears and wolves were driven out by the...
#NotAllPublic, Heartburn, Twitter
...the other hand, the decision about whether or not to treat someone’s twitter feed as fair game is more complicated, something that cannot so easily be incorporated into self-righteous assertions...