The Streets of Spain
...it hits, is not nearly as light-hearted as these kids were. I saw about 10 discharged while hiding behind a newspaper kiosk as I tried to traverse the square. By...
‘At Last, We Are Alive’
...that the State tried to smash with the hooves of São Paulo police, is that, at last, we are alive.” Brum slammed this against dismissals of the mass grievances as...
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)
...acceptable? Some Biden officials tried to guess .” From the piece: Biden officials in recent months privately discussed how many daily Covid-19 deaths it would take to declare the virus...
The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing
...built. Publication pathways taken by men and women in the same field is one area where researchers have tried to pinpoint gender bias in academic publishing. In theory, there are...
TNI Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel March 27
...up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring: Greil Marcus Legendary rock critic and...
On Hating Men (And Becoming One Anyway)
Transmasculinity, feminism, and the politics of online
Ambient awareness
...A reposting of one of my Buzzfeed Community posts for archival purposes When Twitter first started, its boosters tried to sell it as supplying “ambient awareness” and fostering...
The Other Foot
...Liza of Style Blueprint told me, “To be authentic in what you’re writing about, it means that you fully support it. You have tried that face cream. And you didn’t...
Celluloid Coven
...I just watched how the blood coagulated in the water. It became something decidedly non-cinematic. But we sat on that trampoline and we tried to create a ritual that would...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
Our Man in Great Neck
...book by Henry Kissinger, another wanted a photography book. As people came out, they brought the requests of refuseniks who were still there, and we tried to follow through. So...
Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
The Last Witch Hunter
...the two halves of his personality, the devout and the unconventional. These impulses had once been distinctly at odds, but as the landscape around him changed, and modern culture began...
Queer, Interrupted
...New York City, and a now-ritualized street-party-turned-riot in Seattle called Queers Fucking Queers. But more than specific actions and attacks, Bash Back! developed a culture of queerness that refused constraint...
Dark Pages
...depraved monster; or 3) the diaries are authentic, but Casement’s public deeds outweigh his private indiscretions. (This last position was taken, among others, by Peter Singleton-Gates, who tried to publish...
The "Man's Woman," the "Woman's Woman," and Other Apocryphal Creatures
...but mostly because she’d already tried on the vixen persona in her earlier years and found it wanting (Poison Ivy, anyone?). So, sure, she’s a woman’s woman. I recalled this...