Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
...of its infant members is to kill it.” Thus wrote Margaret Sanger, the mother of birth control and founder of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.”...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
Vol. 76 Editors’ Note: Assets
Just how much?
Some Thoughts on Fruitvale Station, and No Angel
...they have killed, after all, which means it is (perversely) respect for the value of life that allows us to take life without moral penalty. A policeman can kill someone...
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
...is credited with saying “Kill the Indian and save the man,” a rationale that would come to define attempted genocide disguised as assimilation. While most assume these schools closed in...
Consent
...To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it, but the act of pressing that button feels like...
Power, Public Life, and The Hunger Games
...Glimmer are primed to mercilessly kill, Foxface uses traditional female strengths of cunning and agility to advance in the game. Their adherence to femininity is secondary to their adherence to...
1983 - 1962
...from the back of slave-drawn carts, “letting everything else drop” meant that the crew had to kill an escaped stunt tiger to keep it from eating them, because cost-cutting kept...
Fist to Brain
...and social conventions, and for Levinas it is therefore the basis for all ethics. He believes that the face, in its obvious vulnerability, says: you shall not kill. Boxing violates...
Fully Operational
...like something Will Smith would kill in a movie. It is mirrored, angular, black, and malevolently futuristic. Critics ranging from the New York Times to parents of NYU students, as...
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...
Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema
...been cheating on her with a number of girls. The creative-writing teacher, frustrated at his inability to write a novel, is confronted by the principal for humiliating students, giving them...
Diner Forty Niner
...that Bruff contemplated, they did commit other crimes, jumping claims, stealing crops, looting homes, ransacking farms, destroying roads, and killing livestock when it suited them. Wherever they went they left...
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...
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
...EEK! In 2009, speculations that ??????? might attempt to kill Imp Kerr intensified. Intelligence officials warned that ??????? had arranged her "imminent physical elimination," in Manhattan, in this town,...
Assets
...culture war wins, targets had already been locked. We’ve reached the expiration date on the neoliberalism and austerity that Western democracies long relied upon to maintain a mask of civility...