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...
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...
History Made Queasy
...verse 21 (29 BC) his cook tried to coax him to greater indulgence by preparing his favorite dishes. The cook knew Lee had a weakness for "old Virginia flapjacks ......
Summer Heat
...that Beverly Lee was actually a boy. On the day after Beverly Lee was shot, the Detroit News reported on the incident: Shot in the back as he tried to...
Witnessing Patriarchy
...fellow students were young, they tried to kill the father: Marxists all, they found Cheik Anta Diop’s work inadequate, ill-conceived, something to be cast off. Today, he reflected, decades after...
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...drawn less to Roman’s crimes than to his self-fictionalizing. What did the man do all day? How could he prefer to kill everyone he loved rather than come clean about...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
...on living at LuxLotus.com. Glamour is the word, pertaining to me, that I hear most often from other people, and, in truth, the word I think of least on...
Get Your Strike On
...y vístanse de rojo como un lazo rojo o ropa de color roja Manifiéstate en contra de los roles de géneros • Contact/Contactenos en: [email protected] [email protected] womenstrikeus.org @womenstrikeus facebook.com/womenstrikenyc/...
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...a Hitchcock movie. I could practically hear the music as Freddy walked out of the frame. But the second death was what tripped me up. I didn’t figure it out...
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...
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...
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...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
...sion: to calm an inner world (“she tried to compose herself”), artistic ren- dition (“to compose and draw a still life”), and construction or placement (“the system is composed of...
Queens Live @ The Kitchen
...text and performance draws on communist, feminist, and afropessimist theory, autobiographical fragments, and pop music as a collective imaginary. She is a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. Sarah Nicole...
Daddy O
...my favorite obscure band, and the smiles I get (nearly all from men over fifty) feel like the knowing glances exchanged by two music nerds passing in the street. Joe...