Lonely and crying
...seemed to temporarily change everything about culture, the group is sometimes mistakenly regarded as nothing more than falsetto-wielding disco appropriators. But before that, the Bee Gees had a long, successful...
Sunday Reading
...Us Free" ReclaimUC: Why college rape survivors don't go to the police Student debt grows faster at universities with highest-paid leaders The one percent at state U A history from...
The Loves of Others
...not have met, and had they not met each other, each would have met someone else, and that would have been a love story too. How-we-met stories teach us two...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...in scopophilia, and we’re very near sighted as a culture because of it. Thinking about your epigraphs, from Mishima and Kathy Acker, did you ever consider yourself a novelist? And...
Trigger Warning Week
...means, and what we think it means. As a culture, we still refuse collectively to accept that most rapes are committed by ordinary men, men who have friends and families,...
African Poetry: Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
...of the nation (you’re an African—write about your history, your culture, your anti colonial struggles, your postcolonial angst). It insists on focusing our gaze on how young women make and...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...classes to happen despite their strike mandate … People eventually come around, building a culture of solidarity and confrontational politics in the process. Soft pickets certainly desiccated the strike—there is...
Sunday Reading
...Lost Forever Karamanli Culture in the Ottoman Empire: Hybridity, Identity and Ethnicity [podcast] Why Hindi and cryptic crosswords do not mix Broken Letters: A Typogeography of Europe Reorienting Heritage: Poetic...
Sunday Reading
...Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace America's Failed Promise of Equal Opportunity Pity the Landlord A lack of a culture war truce in one graph: 10 Thoughts About the...
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
...become a birdwatcher, starting by noticing the most common birds around a person’s home, then listening to their various songs, and finally making this observation a part of daily life....
Sunday Reading
...Apologies to Vaughan; congrats to brief and to Tusi Tamasese The CBS Desiring Machine Best Movies of 2012 ReclaimUC: Let us eat cake! On the UC's new logo Free Cooper...
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
...unwillingness to accept norms and codes, our aggressiveness against those who would teach us lessons, give us advice, watch over us, or are simply moronic. • For us the figure...
Sunday Reading
...place.” Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com The Burden of Debt on Black Families Technology and the Apocalypse in American Culture “However popular dowsing may be, the US Geological Survey takes pains...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...its inevitable endgame, socialism, with Hell? Unclear. Unimportant. Heed. “The lesson I have to teach is this,” Read’s pencil concludes. “Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Have faith that free men...
Heroines
...am not qualified to teach literature. Male professors with no interest in the subject teach women’s literature instead. I am reminded of my lack of a terminal degree. (Why does...
Sunday Reading
...culture Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear: Islamophobia in the United States and British India, 1687-1947 Manju, Coolie No. 15 - Jaipur Junction's lady porter Guidelines for achieving proportional Arabic letters Hyderabad’s...