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...
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...
White Feminism and Eugenics: The Case of Gertrude Davenport
...scientific and popular audiences, manage a research station, and teach new generations of scientists and fieldworkers about eugenics. But at the same time, her enthusiasm for simplifying human heredity made...
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...
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...
Strike Force
...commissary… It is nothing new that prisoners have organized and tried to change things from within. What’s new is that now we are building a solid network of people outside...
Sunday Reading
...Kevin Carey's #EndOfCollege And Reasons to Pause ReclaimUC: The unmanageable university "We have exhausted all 'respectable' avenues, and they have not served us." In and out of compromise: in search...
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...et al were always just gentrified fandom. This shifts into a an analysis of how digital culture facilitates to IRL-gentrification, as exemplified by neighborhoods like Williamsburg. “NYC has lost the...
Lockdown
...slander and the threats of politicians to a programmed killing of Muslims in Delhi with the complicity of the police – the government failed to kill the “contagious” spirit of...
Sunday Reading
...the French discovered Angkor The real roots of violence in Jerusalem ReclaimUC: Academia is killing my friends Vote no on every fee How austerity killed the humanities Why technology will...
Party Like It’s 1992
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Sunday Reading
...stuff Subashini Navaratnam on Les Mis, Red Lights, and white Oscars culture bait A tribute to last week's episode of Girls ReclaimUC: Management's backup plans (update on the state of...
The Mask of Zelda: Dark Eternities
It was just an ordinary day in the world of Legend of Zelda. Then everything went topsy-turvy. Content Warning: Violence of every kind.
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...the overlap between online and offline violence is emblematic of the same perils of patriarchal power that give rise to rape culture in the “ real world .” The Internet...