Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology
...mineralogical survey and where Ethel Mariet would find her passion for weaving. Art from overseas played a role in trends in London as objects from Japan, India, and Persia were...
Sunday Reading
...crisis of the commons Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as "honorary chancellor" of a for-profit college Cashing in on the culture wars "[A]fter LSU football suffered an upset...
Mom-Poet
A conversation with poet and mom Montana Ray about sexism in the poetry scene
I Decide the End
An interview with Elaine Kahn about her new book of poems, Romance or The End
Discipline and Pleasure
...Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us DEPRESSION and addiction are hard to distinguish...
Miyoko Hikiji, Soldier, Author, and Model, Iowa
...bother me or gross me out. My great-grandmother was born in Japan, and my grandmother and my father were born and raised in Kauai. Being part Japanese adds another element...
Beauty Blogosphere 2.8.13
...be worthy in its own right—as it is for Muslim women. We live in a culture that's pretty confused about women's bodies, surveillance, "responsibility," the gaze, and sexuality. Wearing hijab...
Sunday Reading
...A bilingual guide for LGBT disaster preparedness in Japan Clinton and the teachers' unions Antisemitism at the DNC How Republicans Tried to Flip the Jewish Vote and Created Donald Trump...
Do Nothing, Be Nothing
...and what many expect will stand as his magnum opus. Published in Japan in three installments beginning in 2009, the novel was released in North America in a single volume...
Future Islands
...science fiction. Japan-centered science fiction like Gibson’s tends to champion the exceptional, technologically realized individual: “console cowboys” who, by sheer dint of their idiosyncratic brilliance, can move nations. In contrast,...
Hosed: Conservatism and the Return of Pantyhose
...the freedom to shed it—and were likely raising their daughters with the knowledge that nylons were no longer a must. (And in Japan, where pantyhose sales are growing as well,...