Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
...they’ve been robbed of in these stored all these years. “The people here tried legal means of getting help, and they got nothing. They begged the white people to listen...
This Week in Art Crime
...was no victim: he paid the pair with photocopied money. The con artists realized they had been tricked when they tried to deposit 1.7 million Swiss francs (€1.5 million) in...
"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...around the perimeter, armed with both guns and pencils, the latter to take notes as to who was speaking and what the speaker was saying. We tried to make this...
Edith Wharton and Yo Momma
...that I tried to circumvent in the piece was that female writers will forever be judged on the way we look, something my own experience has backed up when I've...
Reserection
...now occasionally a human ashtray. T-SYMMETRIC: “i can’t decide if it’s cool or gross.” CHIQUITA: “the guy eats butts!” INGRID: “he tried his whole life to think his way into...
Rootless and Ruthless
...and dreaming of a future where we could be proud of ourselves. We tried terribly hard to save each other, in the way that young people do, sharing out whatever...
Body Image Tips From Plato
...blame this on patriarchal culture, but I’m pretty sure it’s more complex than that. of DeeDeeness? For some weird reason,*** in my mind the Ideal Form of DeeDee isn't characterized...
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...an enormous, prop comedy cordless telephone. And it feels like one, slightly pebbled, integral. But it cannot be looked through. There are no round places to stick your eyes in...
Survival in Audre Lorde
...In my practice in Poetry I have tried to produce a grammar in which Black existence might be the thought and not the unthought; might be. —Dionne Brand, “An...
A film in the catacinema
...the soft clatter of those ghost-rid horse who whipped back and forth across the icy ground and to the noise of how when they tried to stop this mad stampede...
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
Communiqué on the Liberation of Hind’s Hall
Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
...of the camp whenever they tried to enter. But attempts to mediate the conflict essentially failed, and S. seemed immune to all reason. One day, after he had started another...
Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
...to a makeup artist and they look at your skin and characterize what product is going to work. I took the manual process and tried to automate it. So once...
The Fame Game
...against moderators, other users, my family. So we tried to pre-screen the secrets, where every secret submitted had to be looked at by a moderator before it could be shared,...