Already Pretty Giveaway
...Sally will be giving away a signed copy of Already Pretty to a reader of The Beheld chosen at random from all comments on this post (whether at the-beheld.com, The...
Black Liberation Theory: Insurgent Philosophy & the Black Radical Legacy @ Brecht Forum
...Fugitive ‘being’ 6-W.E.B. DuBois, Double Consciousness & ‘problematic’ Subjectivity 7-Ida B. Wells, Lynching & the Normative Gaze of Established Power 8-Richard Wright & Existential Outlaw Subjectivity 9-Malcom X & Emancipatory...
Who Can You Trust?
...visibility has enabled the company to make names, both real and imagined, a standard part of the online experience. Visitors can email [email protected] to schedule online or in-store appointments with...
"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
...(or on amazon.com) I want to tease out and play with that distinction. There’s a tension, a felt tension between: “Migritude” the “one-woman show,” traveled around the world this book,...
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
...Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT Press, 2014) and Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017). She can be found on Twitter @merylalper and online at merylalper.com....
We gather around a hole, and though the fingers are worn to stubs in holding fast through the storm, still, thank God, bloody still the hole is...
Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project
...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....
Bail Bloc
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail.
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...Excerpted and submitted by Zoe Sharpe. Thanks Zoe! If you have excerpts from writers you think are criminally un(der)known and we should highlight, you can send them to [email protected]...
The Will to Wall
...thousands of unauthorized migrants have perished since the mid-1990s, and elsewhere. He recounts one particularly horrific case, that of 15-year-old Felani Khatun, who in January 2011 tried to surreptitiously cross...
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...Teachers tried to mitigate the problem by writing multiple versions of the same test, swapping in different versions of the same questions, or mixing up their order. That may have...
A Country Disappeared
...education system (controlled by the teacher’s union) and open PEMEX, the state-owned oil company and Mexico’s main source of income, to private investment. Buried under these sweeping structural adjustments, and...
Santorum's Gifts
...George Stephanopoulos on Saturday, Santorum tried to limit himself to emphasizing the honor and dignity of labor that does not require a degree: STEPHANOPOULOS: Now getting to college has been...
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...at the end of the day, I "talk like a girl," and I see no reason to reconfigure. In fact, when I've tried to reconfigure and not be so damned...
Death by Twitter
...the writing of Flaubert, Gide, Camus, Le Clézio and Barthes. In Francophone literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture. But though a version of it was present...