Media is Better Police
...Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Police don’t kill people either, and that’s because, when it comes down to it, police are more guns than people, objects not only...
Sunday Reading: October 15, 2023
...articles, and they will be published here within the newsletter and at the Sunday Reading blog. Please pitch us with drafts attached at [email protected]. That is also the email to...
Miracles and Wonder, Faith and Diaspora: On Tope Folarin's "Miracle"
...a literary commodity. It can help bring people together, help them live at peace with each other, and it can even teach us useful ways of living in the world....
more tired, more frustrated, more rotten
...she tried to theorize--using a familiar set of theoretical texts and continental philosophers--how and where and why some kinds of life become “grievable” while others do not. When Israeli children...
Keeping Kayfabe
...combined with a tried and true strategy to work an audience. But that official explanation ignores that the entire history of wrestling is the history of monopolistic collusion. This is...
Louder Than Bombs
...I was wrapped in bandages. I tried to move them, but I couldn’t, so I asked, “Did you cut off my legs?” They said no, but I kind of knew....
'Tis the Season: The Beheld Gift Guide
...keeps on giving. (I also sort of want to do my part to reclaim the flask for women; the "Flask Gift Set for Women" at eflask.com isn't quite cutting it.)...
Seeing Stars
...Courtesy artificialgallery.co.uk MAY1ZZZ, lilo Lindsay Lohan fanpop.com Taranenko, Rihanna, 2011 DeviantArt.com Brothers De La Motte, Paris Hilton’s selfie, Undated imsoqueer, Mary-Kate, 2011 DeviantArt.com Cameron Gray, Oops...I did it again, 2007...
Sunday Reading
...globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography" hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com T.F. Charlton: "So, what was Stonewall?" - NPR's erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative. Interrogating the...
Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
The Oceanic Feeling
...of love, a redemptive love that won’t quite fit into the comforting melodic or narrative resolution of pop culture. We heard strains of such a love on Ocean’s performance at...
Hi Haters!
...appreciative “fans,” to use Marwick’s word. But that seems to falsely imply microfame exhibitionism stems from delusions of grandeur. Valences drawn from celebrity culture and discourse may help suppress the...
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
Continental Drift
...of 1935, in Csikvánd, a tiny village in northwestern Hungary. Her father was a teacher in the local school, but was imprisoned in 1949 by the new Communist government, when...
The City that Care Remembered
...who came in charity. I’ve been thinking about how anti-Black violence is still a wingnut idea to many people. “The government tried to kill 100,000 Black people in New Orleans.”...
The Fight and the Whale
...helped shape and reshape rock music. Reed didn't need to hire a famous artist to do the cover of his first record, because THE MOST FAMOUS ARTIST ON THE PLANET...