Healthy Boundaries
...typical of other online health forums, are by far the most common, appearing consistently from Facebook pages to threads on NetMums.com. However, while much of the discourse generated emphasizes shared...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...instead. 4. THAT I never expected those I moved against to come into power. 5. THAT both bribery and threats are effective tools to buy a witness. 6. THAT if...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...her job at a Christian highschool after the photos went online. G., or someone purporting to be her, responded, swearing to sue. But it didn’t work out that way. G....
Over Easy
...future familial happiness. As a commodity, the ovum comes to carry an affective significance that few others do. The banner above the online profile of donor #60395 has pictures of...
Ranked Amateurs
...to keep making less than the football coach, but not so enamored with the idea of a Tennessee running back being able to feed himself. Maybe he’ll buy the next...
Personal Ads
...it's most prevalent in our online lives as 21st century prosumers, there's a man who has literally sold his face as advertising space to feed his children. But there's something...
The Wintourian Candidate
...standard white background, five posts per page, each post consisting of one image and a caption. 367 pages and counting. Not Vogue is all caps, strewn with highbrow references to...
Beauty Blogosphere 2.17.12
...browser: Baby boomers buy more cosmetics online than other age groups, which makes total sense to me. I wouldn't buy makeup online unless I knew it was exactly what I...
'Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
...As the site's "about" page puts it, "In effect, the artists represented on Beyond Buckskin reclaim Native America's right to determine what is 'Native' when it comes to fashion." Sing...
No, You're Already Pretty
...the best advice I've heard is an interpretation from the great (though defunct) fashion site academichic.com. Inspired by their challenge to readers to create an outfit inspired by a book...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...freedom. The problem is not that the online self is “inauthentic” and the offline self is real; it’s that the self derived from the data processing of our digital traces...
The Scapegoating Machine
...that drive online abuse and scapegoating are also what give users a feeling of community on social media, its operators will be hard-pressed to rein them in, even if they...
The IRL Fetish
...coined the term “digital dualism” to describe: the habit of viewing the online and offline as largely distinct. The common (mis)understanding is experience is zero-sum: time spent online means less...
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...ways our own labor alienates us from our fuller selves. (The piece isn’t fully available online, but Sole-Smith has written about it at her blog and in these ungated pieces,...
Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia
...social life unfolding online. Relationships change and feelings for others are molded by what is seen on social media feeds. One misinterpreted Instagram pic or tweet can end a relationship....