Sunday Reading
...merge in Bitcoin. The quiet desperation of the TaskRabbit. ReclaimUC : Your education is not more important than any other struggle Zombie MOOCs Teaching while black and blue The eliminative...
Sunday Reading
...in California's Punjabi-Mexican community On digital detox, and pathologizing connection RIP William Weaver, translator of Umberto Eco ReclaimUC: Open letter to the UC Berkeley community about the intimidation of grad...
Sunday Reading
...Student Loans Immoral? ReclaimUC UC/CSU: Time for a fundamental rethinking of the role of the UC administration. Pepper-sprayed students from UC Davis win settlement worth $1 million with the UC...
Sunday Reading
...my sitting" ReclaimUC: On the ongoing failure of the UC administration to confront racism on campus Public universities as tax shelters Revolutionary study against and beyond the university The lessons...
Sunday Reading
...the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report ReclaimUC: UC Davis spent at least $175,000 to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet The University...
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
Red Light Green Light
...where I teach. You can still say “those kindergarteners” to anyone who was there at the time and they’ll know exactly who you’re talking about. It feels both factually and...
Downward-Facing Drones
...to a faith in asana. All these news stories point to the same truth: In the U.S., yoga often begets a toxic culture that encourages, if not outright rewards, dangerously...
Northanger Abbey and antisocial pleasure
...the compromises involved with accommodating other people. That is, they teach us that we can be around others without caring about what they are feeling; the pleasures of ownership can...
Dear Mammy
...you don’t have the time but can you do me a HUGE favor? I teach Corregidora on Monday. Haven’t read it yet but I know you are familiar with the...
Not for Teacher
...school represented just another space where they were criminalized for their style and culture. The school … was indistinguishable from the police officer stationed at McDonald’s, the adults in the...
Trophy Season
...for J to teach me, because it's a perfectly natural thing to see a person who's punching people and assume that person is kind of a jerk. As a teacher...
Five Questions with Michael Kelleher
...Why shouldn’t a great teacher (or translator or editor or literary culture worker, for that matter) who’s not a researcher receive the same consideration? How about, 'Devote yourself to your...
Summertime Selves (On Professionalization)
The summertime self discloses the logic of the utopian university fantasy: Probably never are we more of it than when we think we’re outside of it.
School's Out Forever
...others.” Classrooms, tellingly, are usually depicted in popular culture as excruciatingly boring. Teachers post Calvin and Hobbes cartoons about the soul-crushing banality of compulsory attendance on the classroom walls. In...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...questioning the existence of a god of any gender. My father was a bit more enthusiastic, going so far as to teach Sunday school, but even at 7 years old...