Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
...the market; compiling songs into albums has become more nostalgic than necessary or economically warranted. And I still vividly remember throwing out my entire CD collection — for me, a...
You Are Too Much
...woman has absorbed the lessons of pop music without irony, in the atmosphere of total surveillance exemplified by Facebook and the NSA, and now believes that love should be conducted...
American Woman
Wonder Woman unsettles superheroes from within a national tradition that demands their existence
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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
...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
...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...
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...
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...
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...