PACBI Now
...speech are collectively organizing to prevent culture from abetting oppression. These coalitions suggest that even when those involved have little financial or political power, and even when their fields are...
Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
Sunday Reading
...the Quiet Queering of Professional Sports The WNBA Can Teach Male Athletes About Coming Out and Being Allies Jason Collins Has “Reframed the Conversation” Around Sports, Blacks and Homophobia Why...
Sunday Reading
...health Rob Ford and stop-and-frisk Rob Ford and everything else Renisha McBride and self preservation Ray Kelly and campus speech "Twelve Years a Slave" and William Lloyd Garrison ReclaimUC: Why...
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...of capitalism for their ability to feed and sustain themselves and their families. This is not that world. But by blurring them together, by making “internet shame culture” the villain,...
Search for a Method
...Waziristan near the Afghan border to verify a Predator strike, whose Hellfire missiles had struck a compound killing Taliban leader Abu Hamza Rabia along with a Syrian bodyguard and Mohammad...
Buffalo Skulls
...mixed-race child is nothing like the mass-killing of white people; to argue that they are similar is nonsense. But does the mixing of America threaten “white culture”? Does immigration and...
After #CadaanStudies
...out of this colonial history. Academic research and understandings about Somalis supplied the informational needs for colonial governance and control, and many early “experts” on Somali society and culture, like...
History of Dialogue: Tamil Stories
...Both trace a history that the regime of president Mahinda Rajapaska—who ruled Sri Lanka from 2005 until a surprising electoral loss this January—has tried to repress through censorship, slander and...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.13.12
...of black beauty with an in-depth look at the influences—people, fashion, music, education, pop culture—and provide tools and resources to foster a greater sense of self and confidence within the...
Sunday Reading
...a woman in Canada's parliament Undoing a 64-year-old McCarthyite conviction A backlash against McCarthyism in DC's Jewish Community Center Bint Battuta: Port Armenians and global Armenian print culture Jerusalem's 800-year-old...
Paranoid Androids
...warfare to kill combatants or noncombatants visibly horrified them. None of this absolves manufacturers, researchers, engineers, or any other host of nongovernmental actors from responsibility. On the contrary, their Frankenstein’s...
Representing Crisis
...million by 2018. As New York cultural critic Ellen Willis put it in her essay “Intellectual Work in the Culture of Austerity” (2000), such constrictions within higher education often feel...
Here to Make Friends
...genuine, as did their admiration for each other. Unlike adults, the children didn’t have their egos get in the way ,and they didn’t pretend offense when their competitors tried to...
Enigma Deviations
...intelligence services tried to de-risk themselves by expelling “perverts” in Turing’s time. A Foucauldian story could be told about the transition from a mode of governance that compelled self-transparent subjects...
Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn