Sci-Fi Crime Drama With A Strong Black Lead
...look like stereotyped representation of their traits as defined by a particular software system, and that that stereotype will align with the biases of the local culture in which it...
The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
...punch with one too many zithering climbs, the music just tosses forth crescendo after crescendo in unceasing sequence, as an ocean breeds waves or as a city pukes condos on...
Strangers in a Strange Land
...own promises. I knew it might not be totally possible to communicate any of this, but by God, I tried. Soon after I met Michael, he said of my apparent...
Simple and Plain
...the music he made after the 1968 Comeback. I'm amazed by moments like this, a 1970 performance of "Make the World Go Away." Wearing a ludicrous white high-collar jumpsuit with...
Otherwise Movements
...where we are in terms of the fights for justice, the fights for equity. One of my friends says that the beauty in black music is found in how it...
Enjoy the Rules
...of reciprocity on the Web, fostering a culture of mutually beneficial cooperation and due credit. Lanier, walking the talk, traces his idea to Ted Nelson, a network theorist who envisioned...
Outgrowing oneself
...playing. I felt instantly as if I had been completely exposed. I thought there was something special about being into a certain kind of music — and Nirvana in the...
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
Trans Historical Narratives
...the word. You can ’ t feed mostly upon yourself and sustain enough energy to live, that ’ s always going to be counter-productive. The process of writing about oneself...
terrain & terroir
...law, legitimacy and culture in both colonial and post-colonial contexts as ideas of sexuality, as the expression of essence and freedom compete with both ideas of sexuality as social reproduction...
❒ she ❒ i ✔ haze
...saves princess tiger lily. a party is organized, music and skewers, and the occasion for tiger lily, rather introvert, to show her feline side. she's a capricorn, like grandmaster flash....
How Ought We Die?
...in the future? We need a new script for talking about impending death, a guide to teach the population how to prepare for it and how to support one another...
Minor Cords
...struggled to catch up academically. I signed my own absence notes, talked frankly with teachers about my academic performance during parent-teacher conferences and tried my best to understand the importance...
On Being a Fat Child
...healthfully and mindfully, exercise aplenty, and remain fat. But that wasn’t me. Had I eaten the way my parents tried to teach me to eat, and not been so terrified...
Sunday Reading, June 18, 2023
...within trans culture: the fake choice between literalism and opacity. Instead of making us choose, Wallenhorst looks at how this false dichotomy was produced in the first place. The anatomist...
Life and Death in Dioramas
...of her primary teaching tool, a series of dollhouse-sized dioramas called The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. The dioramas were designed to teach investigators how to observe a crime scene,...