Encounters With Lindsay
...cradling it away from him, with that familiar glare. When he left, she told everyone, clasping her hands around her neck, “HE TRIED TO CHOKE ME ONCE.” She then took...
‘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...
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
...long-term immunocontraception vaccine, has also been experimentally used. Local municipalities with overabundant deer have tried tubal ligation and surgically removing ovaries, techniques that cost tens of thousands of dollars per...
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...
“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”...
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...
You Make Me Swoon
An edited excerpt from We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Where the Fire's Still Burning
...police force or the military was held responsible for not interfering. Thirty-three people were tried and convicted of 'attempting to destroy constitutional order' and given death penalties, which were converted...
For the Win: Failure!
...in: when corporate interests come into conflict with a democratically elected president, corporations will win, every time. After all, when Jimmy Carter tried to create a sensible energy policy, oil...
Fucking Like a Housewife
From On Becoming Undone
Marginal Returns
...Martin and Bill Duke are on the underemployment line. The studio tried to muscle both movies into the conversation late in the year, but neither quite got there in the...
Sickness Unto Death
...but American society at large. Ours is a culture that pushes to see the eldest members of our families safe and secure above all else. We don’t see that the...
Not Your Friend: Dissensus and the Police
...nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means...
Tracing Ana
...apartment window under what can only be referred to as suspicious circumstances. Her husband, heralded artist Carl Andre, was tried and ultimately acquitted of murder, earning him a new sobriquet:...
Working Beauty
...subjects, and certainly not the students. If she tried, she’d be terminated or worse: Clara threatens her with vague but menacing consequences if she misbehaves. And what does the doctor...
Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)
...the doors themselves, the silent violence of the chipping, the queer burnishing, almost as if trying to gain a grip on what could not be... We knew. Someone had tried...