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...
Noshing with Nomads
...even though it will mean lugging some sixty cartons of them through high summer’s swelter. I tried in the past to break myself of this packrat-ish impulse, lest it end...
Escape
...those of us still on the run.” After escape, there is the work of living past the shores of a different world we have tried so hard to find....
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
...distort family values.” She writes as if those family values — the same ones that have emerged from patriarchal culture and skewed emotional labor along gender lines — reflect eternal...
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
My Gay Shame, or, How Patriarchy Stole Sex
...to be anonymous, I wanted my own desire and not to be only desire’s object. I know this is a wildly optimistic reading of what gay sex culture promises women,...
Achilles 2.0
...his former comrade-in-arms Tihomir Blaskic, who was tried for war crimes at The Hague: …I thought about what I would have said if they had questioned me, how I would...
Permanent Display
...autonomy, does it reflect also on privacy? I tried to introduce a certain questioning into public space. By working on people’s gaze with the practice of “hijabizing” in the subway,...
Data Streams
...the Intercept. It’s a single frame of scrambled video imagery, and I tried to connect that with some of the metaphors that the analysts themselves use to describe the job...
Rhetoric and Tone: A Debate
...he has never even tried. I believe it is utterly childish to deflect that obvious journalistic/professional transgression with so cartoonish and incendiary an analogy and in calling it out as...
Pont Blank
...I’ve tried to tell this story. For nearly two years, I’ve been sending versions of what follows into the most important photographic journals and magazines. As you might expect, the...
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...
Cruise Control
...spaces where men could come together — the ruined factory cities — have been swept up in the name of real-estate values. The privatized remnants of this vibrant sex culture,...
This Week in Art Crime
...I am the guy responsible for the exhibition, that we have brought shame on the Ukraine people. I tried to explain that we show also the killed [Euromaidan] protesters, but...
The Selfless Man
...Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) by teaching him the art of the pickup, training him to dress fashionably, drink like an alpha male, and make woman-pleasing small talk. “Be better than...
A Bridge to Somewhere
...people in an unventilated metal box for hours get really hot, and a few started to get faint. We shifted them to the cooler floor, and tried to conserve water....