Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: March Madness makers and takers Students strike back in Montreal What can Quebec teach us? A preliminary analysis of the university as a site of struggle (2012)...
Sunday Reading
...Italy ReclaimUC: Nearly every faculty member of color at UCLA has experienced racial bias In Berkeley, racism never left Academic whores Do student evaluations measure teaching effectiveness? A revenge scenario...
Sunday Reading
...Album 'mbv' Breaks the Internet" ReclaimUC: Where does UC tuition go? Average earnings of young college graduates are still falling Universities start suing their graduates over delinquent loans Student loans...
Reading Katehi: The Pepper Spray Chancellor
...glorified fundraiser and figurehead -- seem legitimate as sovereign authority. As ReclaimUC puts it, the problem of outsiders comes to assume an enormous amount of space in the administrative mind:...
Sunday Reading
...penalized by the child welfare system. ReclaimUC: America's top cop as UC president What does Janet Napolitano's appointment as UC president tell us about the UC? UC President Napolitano and...
Sunday Reading
...Jason Alexander and Megan Carpentier ReclaimUC, defiantly debting as usual, but also enjoying an organic, locally produced burrito: "The gold rush is on, and in this case the gold rush...
Sunday Reading
...Religion and politics Neoliberal attacks on sociological inquiry What would Mary Beard do? How not to write an endorsement Awakening to an earthquake ReclaimUC: Cal disorientation guide 2014 Napolitano hopes...
Sunday Reading
...Poems Gwendolyn Brooks' poems for children Dress codes for visiting God On ordering cow dung patties online ReclaimUC: UAW International overrules academic workers' BDS vote Can't disrupt this: Elsevier and...
Riot Grrrls in Space
...adults, willing to experiment with style and content, which drew influences from a variety of sources including film and the comics of Europe and Japan. Starstruck was very much at...
The Luck of the Listserve
...in Prospect Park, "eating pie, singing little mermaid songs, and meeting new people." "We should do that again," he says. It's not always picnics and mermaid songs, and not everyone's...
California Mixtape
...It’s the best word Joni Mitchell ever sung. There are about a hundred recorded songs with the same title but her “California”, from 1971’s Blue, does more for...
Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...doesn’t drive some black Ford with a two-way radio.' —Joan Didion, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' From Slouching Towards Bethlehem, p. 116. The occurrence of appearance should come as no surprise. Fashion...
The Literary Community Presents: LET'S MAKE A MOVIE!
...Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus Learn more and RSVP on Facebook Sliding scale. $20 donation recommended but pay what you can: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706884381/happy-baby-the-movie/posts/354932...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The ad...
African Poetry: Introduction
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...