Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
Sunday Reading
...* Don’t Feed the Psychotic Narcissists * DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012) * The Mystery of Charles Dickens * Gore Vidal's Detective Novels * Justin Bieber initials on all my winter clothes...
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Reform School
...job skill—will have to sell their labor to property owners in order to feed and house themselves. Those property owners are the same people that have spent the past hundred...
Hollywood's Drug War
...-- a murderer -- is one of the good guys. We watch the formerly flush assassin try to feed his family on beans and salsa because the Salvadoran justice system...
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Dark Knight: Occupy Batman
...they apparently hope will by example (mediated through mass media) be replicated across the country. I think Batman even subpoenas Malcolm Harris’ twitter feed at one point. Via. This vacillation,...
The Revolution Goes Kablooie
...so fast that it went careening completely out of sight? This is, to some degree, the question posed by Adam Thirlwell’s new novel Kapow!, a cyclonic attempt to novelize what...
Liberation:Transmission
...enslaved. News that would feed dreams. News that would create new energy. News that would fuel alternative ways of imagining being and being together. Revolution Clusters: Haiti, the U.S., France....
The Potato System
...on potatoes being carried to feed passengers on clipper ships sailing from America to Ireland. "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially...
Sunday Reading
...Love Letter to The Moth This Twitter feed Things to do in Brooklyn this weekend Me: what a honeybee looks like as it loses its stinger "The cargo cult of...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
...The maqlouba isn't ready yet and though my stomach is growling, I feed on dialogue instead. I talk at length to a friend's wife about the Muslim ban, and why...
You are totally unreliable Twitter
...the personal power to regulate (and thus, are semi-private). We often expect to have control over what information enters our feed, and then it turns out that we don’t (and...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Gold Star, Brown Family
...all in service of joining the Army upon graduation in 2000. It would be his way of giving back to what ROTC had given him. He completed his four years...