Living Chess
...Lady Thomas appears in only one game on the popular chessgames.com database, from the first Women’s International Chess Congress in 1897, which she lost to Mary Rudge, the ultimate champion...
Iranophobia 2.0
...Iranian had an identical experience. Zack Jafarzadeh tried to buy an iPhone at a mall in Atlanta: I would say if you're trying to buy an iPhone, don't tell them...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Tweeting the Beat
...and aren’t fazed by drunk driving penalties. It’s part of the culture. Because what else are you going to do when it’s 10 below and the Packers just lost? TNI:...
Dominate
...News Feed and like buttons led to a company culture in which personality traits and experiences needed a "proof of concept" through appropriate metrics before being embraced as cool. As...
African Poetry: Safia Elhillo
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I am writing this—I am starting this writing—while sitting in the International Lounge of the hospital. It’s business comfortable, and it reminds me...
Sunday Reading
...Nostalia-tinted 8-bit animated gifs of everyday Japanese life ReclaimUC: UC Berkeley drops health coverage for families "UAW 2865 is the first local to explicitly call for disassociation between police unions...
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
...the music was her choice. That’s always been the rules. In a properly perverse pick, she had selected Yolanda be Cool and DCUP’s “We No Speak Americano (Extended Death Match...
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism.
Carceral Educations
...in the Bronx a few days a week to teach GED preparation courses. My students were 17-to 24-year-olds with some sort of criminal record. We used to make jokes about...
Not Feeling It
An interview with Xine Yao on how, and which, feelings are racialized
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream
...and instead attack their source, the mouths of others, puts her in a position to combat oppression. In other words, Fiona is rendered speechless by the dominant culture, and the...
Against Extinction
...occupation of lands abroad--this is the vile extent and pervasiveness of rape culture. Know that a true critique and denouncement of capitalism can only come from those who do not...
Drama for Cannibals
...and foreign than encourage them to form social analyses based on their common experiences. American culture as a whole has little use for narratives about the intelligence and sophistication of...
The African is Not at Home
...culmination of a more insidious systemic violence that otherises Somalis in Kenya daily: in ethno-chauvinist discourse, in derogatory remarks and representations in popular culture, in economic and political marginalisation. Government...