Tender Potatoes
...Chantal Akerman’s films show how murderous violence always lurks in the mundanity of the domestic WHEN Chantal Akerman’s hyperrealist homage to ritualistic domesticity, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce,...
Chaos Orders Us: A Letter From Paris
Why, all across the globe, does everything that serves to preserve the tradition of the oppressed also serve to oppress COVID-19?
Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and the Language of Denigration
...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....
Postcard from the Internet
...com for the immigrant. But as I was moving through life saddened by the truth of this scattered sedimentation and exclusion from the world of heritage discovery, the internet came...
Stuck on the Chaise Lounge: The Female Subject in Psychiatry from Pathology to Prozac
...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....
DNA-based prediction of Nietzsche’s voice
...genomic DNAs were generated. Nietzsche’s genotype was singled out after comparison to genotype data from one living relative of the Nietzsche family. Nietzsche’s genotype data was analyzed using a DNA-based...
Canceled Message (Part Three)
...Part One here; Part Two here. Bio is a text written / deleted / rewritten on Twitter dot com for one year. That accumulation / deletion / recomposition...
Acta del Desastre
El levantamiento de Puerto Rico y la Instrumentalización de Lin-Manuel Miranda
Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner
...independent research includes topics in science and literature, especially overlap between the two. She blogs at The Virtuoso Blog. Contact Afton on Twitter @TheVirtuosoBlog or through email at [email protected]...
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
...teach me to love Blackness and love Allah nonetheless. In her eyes and in His, I was whole. * * * As Black folks, we are in practice not a...
American History
...entertainment. The sense of “capturing” something on film is not far off here; wielding the technology of film, many Westerners from Edison to James Cameron have tried to contain anxieties...
Work Sucks
The revolution will not be a job fair. No one is gonna check your CV.
Women Cuddling Animals
...LSD, injecting himself and his dolphins with the drug, sometimes at the same time. The purpose of Lilly’s Saint Thomas compound was to teach dolphins to speak in English. By...
Staff at Wits University Threatened
...Wits University in Johannesburg: a threat which sets a worrying trend for times to come for all of us who teach at universities. The backdrop is the militarisation of our...
My Father’s Sign
...like our uncle Aki, who he met on air. Aki came to visit a number of times; he even tried—and failed—to teach me how to hold chopsticks properly. (I still...
The Ahmeds in America, Part Two
...cultures where young ones learn and work alongside adults in families and communities, children tend to become responsible and autonomous like adults while adults continue to remain playful like children....