Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
...in her cover-story interview with Allure makes it spike in lookups at Merriam-Webster.com. Sabbath Sharpie: Perhaps inspired by the recent case of an Orthodox Jewish woman suing Lancôme over the...
Just Another Princess Movie
...it’s not predictable, it’s not Just Another Princess Movie, and it’s not — my God! — lacking for deeper layers. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. Insofar as Pixar...
Sarah Leonard Speaks at Occupy the Page
...the Indypendent, Sarah Leonard of DISSENT and The New Inquiry, and Nathan Schneider of Waging Nonviolence and occupywriters.com . Theodore Kerr of 12th StreetJournal, moderates. 12th Street is the award-winning...
Resisting The Chilling Effect
...disagreed. This isn’t to say that the list was a raging hotbed of disputes and denunciations — Politico’s Walter Shapiro compared it to “cafeteria chatter.” Journolist, after all, was an...
Desiring Machines
...An attraction-machine now takes the place, or may take the place, of a repulsion-machine: a miraculating-machine succeeding the paranoiac machine. — Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus "Desiring Machines": [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/02/05-Desiring-Machines-EDIT2.mp3|titles=Desiring Machines]...
The Chosen People
The authors of The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election, Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz, in conversation with TNI. Their book addresses the...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
...it's being treated as something with potential instead of something already available. The singularity just may be cosmetized. Bad girls go everywhere: xoJane.com beauty editor Cat Marnell in a Vice...
On Modeling as Modern-Day Physiognomy
...link to AskMen.com. , of course, but our faces also telegraph something to the world just by dint of how they’re formed, even though—sorry, all readers who believe in physiognomy—that...
Nicole Kristal, Writer and Bisexual Advocate, Los Angeles
...at LGBT festivals internationally. (You can rent it for $2 at BuskFilms.com , and I suggest you do exactly that.) Author, yes—her (hilarious) book, The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe...
TNI Vol. 13 Editorial Note: Bartlebea the Dater
...points out in his piece on the oldschool social-networking site Makeoutclub.com, which had the virtue of not being explicitly dating-oriented. On that site, sexual tension was high because ambiguity lived:...
Protect and Serve
...the house. Billed as a compilation of "golden-age police procedural tutorials, self-defense training vids, and the most nightmarish amateur footage of macings, beatdowns, and brutal assaults ever captured by the...
Selective Blindness: Ida Bengtson and the Treatment of Trachoma
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Great Dads
...Great Dad for Dummies, the brain child of the three New Zealand–based entrepreneurs, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, and Eric Mooij, who launched the website DIYFather.com after recognizing "the need for...
"As an American writer" (Toni Morrison on Colbert)
...interested to note that Vox Dot Com has a headline in which they declare: I saw a few people passing that framing around on twitter, and I was surprised. I...
Muckrakers, Inc.
...asked him what his college mascot was. “I went to Brooklyn College,” he said. “So, the gefilte fish.” Send your thoughts to [email protected] Whatever your politics—and mine, I admit, aren’t...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
...down? Pocket change: Shine.com breaks down exactly how much it costs to look like Jennifer Aniston (cloning not included). The grand total? $141,037. Girl in Front of Mirror, Pablo Picasso,...