An exemplary revolt
...people revolt, they know their objectives: at Battipaglia, they didn't bring petitions to the prefect, but they tried to set fire to the town hall and devastated the tax collector's;...
0D30
...dies when she bakes a cake, when she takes the wrong kind of pleasure in her job; Maya wins for her joylessness, but her double—who tried to encourage her to...
The Judge From Central Casting
...to be an individual. Because Kavanaugh has tried to be everything to everyone, this man his advocates call “exceptional” is anything but; he is almost implausibly replaceable. Kavanaugh clones abound:...
Amniotechnics
...life tried liquidly to become. Much has been written on the view of pregnancy, in antiquity, as a dutiful woman’s self-sacrificing encounter with death. To be pregnant was famously conceptualized...
London, Underground
...in a city that has achieved worldwide fame for being perpetually on the edge of sinking into its own filth. Lots of people have tried to clean up this city,...
What It Takes to Build Your Credit: "Urban Zoning," by Billy Kahora, Week Two of Blogging the Caine
...to observe that Stephen has done a lot of the work in framing this story that I would have tried to do, and which I would have done much less...
Margot, Not at the Wedding
...plot, and tried to annul her dangerous sexuality by reconstituting it as love of the first man, La Mole, who really tempted her. (See also, among others: Princess Di.) The...
Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
Teenage Screams
...As if he can’t even bop around in his room without a lens present, Marc puts on music and dances alone in front of his laptop. His expression shifts from...
Reviving Cabiria
...familiar institutions of Italian culture, all of which seem to have lost some majesty after the war. He skewers the Catholic Church when Cabiria and a caravan of prostitutes journey...
Waiting For
...live in a culture that can make murderous white men with guns a lot faster than they are—occasionally, rarely, almost never—sent to prison. You don’t get justice by occasionally, rarely,...
Sunday Reading
...Rights "the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists" Coming Home: Queer South Asians and the Politics of Family Music's New Genre: ISIS...
Sunday Reading: August 20, 2023
...Communism. The panel will focus on peer-led work, links between the trans and disability justice movements, feedback loops between empire and debility, and liberatory harm reduction. “The Palo Alto System”...
Un(der)known Writers: Diane di Prima
...our own music From Revolutionary Letters. Diane di Prima celebrated her 80th birthday this April, and her newest book of poetry, The Poetry Deal, was just released in September....
“The men will not do it”: 19th Century Sex Work and Reform
...to function as employment agencies that provided material aid and shelter. Although the women of early and mid-century reform societies had negative stereotypes about the women they tried to “save”...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...in Proctor &, and the inventor of Ivory Soap. The city of Cincinnati had tried to stop its demolition due to the house's historic significance. And in happier historic preservation...