The Ahmeds in America, Part Three
...was on American culture - we needed to be coached in this topic in order to successfully teach American students, and integrate into our new surroundings. “The first thing that...
Stories of Our Lives: Memories
...of the household? Why are women not getting married? Why are couples divorcing? One cannot escape the unrelenting heteronormativity of Kenya. Heteronormativity, as Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner teach us,...
Liberation:Transmission
...Image | Wambui Mwangi Historians teach us that freedom dreams travel and infect. They spread desires and transmit energies. The history of black emancipation, the long emancipation as...
Um, Sunday Reading
...Arendt, the movie. Labor hoarders. Secret Law approved. Asymmetric information: economist's euphemism for exploitation. UK austerity cataloged. ReclaimUC: Scathing report on neurosurgeons at UC Davis medical center: "The three cases,...
Sunday Reading
...Blaming South Korea's Culture for Last Week's Ferry Disaster Quotes from Sotomayor’s Dissent Alaska OKs Bill Making Native Languages Official Japanese-era literature in Taiwan E-mails Ignored, Meetings Denied: Bias at...
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00
...teach, when we're lazy – that criticism means. These kind of critiques alone might be able to help withstand the present, which means, in no small part, destroying the notion...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...ordered a package of diaphragms, commonly known as pessaries, to be shipped directly from Japan to Stone at the clinic. The package was intercepted by customs officials, which led to...
The Changing Faces of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
...National Book Award winner and MacArthur Fellow was tackling comic books, but at the same time, I wasn’t thrilled with some of his depictions of African themes and cultures. Let...
Green Nightmares
Fossil fuel resistance and repression are escalating
Sunday Reading
...day low prices. Top 1% average $666,000 gain in stocks since 2009; 50% of US own no stocks. ReclaimUC: Bumped until Tuesday. Privatizing UC instruction On the no-confidence votes at...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The University of California's united front for saving the public univ—oh, wait Chancellors gone wild The Chicago school Universities, inequality, and the overtime rule "Here’s something I...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.18.13
...a radio appearance to talk nail art and black culture. Insect aside: Since bug sex is so 2009, let's turn our attention to bug fashion. Grin and bear it: Katrina...
The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking
...to ourselves, but to culture as a whole. The power of the pepper spray video clip to affect the material situation is undeniable, though the process by which it occurs...
Death Stares
...of the above. Accepting that death itself is natural, but the death anxiety and terror of modern culture are not.” The practices having to do with "digital media" and death...
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies