The Secret Shopper
...always used to justify precarious labor. “You are free to turn down any job that doesn’t interest you,” promises MysteryShoppersAmerica.com. “You are always free to take off as much time...
Bad News
...own subject position than anything else. Specifically, it reveals an affiliation with the white bourgeois culture given an unexpected glimpse of its own fragility by the economic shocks of the...
Technicolor Tehran
...the early 1980s, graphic representations still retain cultural specificity. The all-purpose term visual culture can flatten the differences between what pixacão on buildings in São Paulo signifies versus the constant...
Boom and Rust
...his classic California: A History, Kevin Starr wrote, “In just about every way possible—its internationalism, its psychology of expectation, its artistic and literary culture, its racism, its heedless damage to...
The Unproven Body
...and others near you, where they disrupt no one but yourself and these others near you. I tried to move around my home the way I had the day before....
Sick
...with the knowledge that you have tried to kill yourself, as Natasha Lennard writes in “On Suicide.” Questions of intent are necessarily hazy in this act, which confounds the subject-object...
Compose Yourself
...smoothie blend ... only to unbalance and ignite it all over again; • there's almost no decent music criticism of Thug except for what the thoroughfares of these internet streets...
TNI REX (1)
...Exist" Big bones are easy to fake. But not everyone has been taken in by the paleontology hoax. Watch and learn. Willie Osterweil, Editor Music Blog: Beat Electric For the...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...down Is Anyone Up for good. The site's URL redirected to a long essay from Moore on anti-bullying site Bullyville.com explaining that he'd gotten tired of reporting all the underaged...
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
...two roles—employing her powers to prank a man vs. to kill a man, for example—go on and on. Bewitched is the story of Isabel Bigelow (Kidman), a witch who is...
How to Win Tinder
...kill. Meeting IRL: wham, pow, ya dead. I “killed it” one Sunday morning when I was messaging with three women — complete strangers — simultaneously, in bed, ignoring the world...
The More Things Change
...would kill the blaze. But they felt a compromise was necessary. They bowed to the disapproval of a public that felt ignored and took measures that they themselves knew to...
"Imagine What We'll Build for One Another": an Interview with Jules Gill-Peterson
Health justice scholar Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about anti-trans policy, eugenics, and the material stakes of desire
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
How to Talk About the Weather
...culture, just as nature, is very dynamic, and the environmental community is vast and multifarious and very, very energetic about coming up with new models of organization and new models...
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?