You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...In 1893, Mary Kingsley found herself with six months to kill, so she went to Africa. But the thing about being a Victorian lady is that you can go...
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
Killing the Angel in the House
...Time ever slow. Slower than molasses, slower than raw honey: turbinated sugar-time. Devoid of speed, life moved at the pace of number of books devoured, Japanese cartoon series and American...
None of You
...once observed, bourgeois reformers never solve the problems created by capitalism, because they cannot address the root causes; since you can’t just kill the poor, the next best thing is...
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
Masters of Suspicion
...countries like Mexico or Colombia, or, for that matter, of the persistence of the revolutionary socialist government in Cuba. When militants of the Mexican Ejercito Popular Revolucionario kill soldiers and...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...I got” kinda way. I always say isms are systemic abuse culture and this is basically a prime example given this is the kind of uncomfortable situation you get when...
The Killing Class
...more one reaches toward a higher definitional value. The police are defined by the power to kill with impunity, period. The police are the killing class. And it is in...
Sunday Reading
...Don't Do Kwaanza "Serial" as an Asian-American Story Kill the Future The Mouse That Roared: The Democratic Movement in Hong Kong Communism Goes Cute: The Japanese Communist Party’s new kawaii...
Politics of Contempt
...I want to focus on the positive, because otherwise I would collapse. For her children, there are no baby steps. They get the same quality of teaching, the same educational...
Preservation Society
...as pieces of nature, the bears are thoroughly beyond culture. Animal or object? Animal and object? This is the irresolvable tension that defines all taxidermy. What, then, do the ten...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...an event remembered as the “godsquabble.” These faithful bureaucrats have been keeping records of the costs of the railsea, and nearly kill Sham when he reveals that he hasn't come...
This is 40?
...to say about the appropriation of black culture by white youth before pulling back and solving its narrative riddle with gangland fantasia. He gives us a quartet of non-black Kentucky...
Vol. 26 Editors' Note: Consent
...realize you, the player, have to finish the job. To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it,...
Introduction
...three things of each piece I commissioned for this supplement. That it be dangerous. That it be necessary. That it be true. I wanted to create a platform for transgressive...
Sunday Reading
...employ as many private security guards as high school teachers." Nice unions finish last "[P]ower doesn’t come from friendly campaigns and negotiating with management." The testing ground for the new...