TNI Rex (4)
...of producing a massive archive of bizarre scenes and harrowing close calls from Russian roadways. An intricate web culture has sprung up on Russian forums dedicated to uploading sharing these...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.11.13
...Side of the Moon?" (Um.) Slow violence: We're finally having necessary conversations about our culture of violence. Minh-Ha T. Pham asks us to look at the gendered "slow violence" we...
Mirror Binge
...it here.) And one of the reasons I don't write about it here is because I'm firm in my belief that we as a culture have overconnected eating disorders to...
Get real
...belonging, not the acts of an egregiously desperate victim of image culture. The moral tenor of the novel is that America has been swept over by superficiality, by artificiality, by...
Radical Science, Feminism, and the Biology of Determinism
...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....
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...the gap between what a buyer is promised with a beauty product and what she actually receives; the gap our culture has created between being the smart girl and the...
Cookie Cutters
...temporary employment, rented houses, longer work lives, failed states, and consumer culture. Perhaps consent is no longer available for purchase; maybe we can now only— from time to time—subscribe....
Adding Up: Phyllis Rosser and the Gender Politics of Standardized Math Tests
...standardized testing and American culture and the Social Media Editor for Lady Science. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of women and gender in science,...
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
...Further Reading Hillel Schwart, The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (New York: Zone Books, 2014). Linda, Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and other essays (New York: Harper...
The World and What it Isn't: Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names."
...similarity of human culture; though he did draw parallels between African and English authoritarian patriarchs, he was primarily interested in the way Okonkwo’s Africa had to be erased and forgotten...
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
First-Person Corporate
...novels Michaels regards as paradigmatically neoliberal in their themes and conceits. , he also detects in the culture itself. He writes in "What Matters," an August 2009 piece for The...
The Carceral State
...you know, there are also chapters of Critical Resistance in Los Angeles and Oakland that continue to push toward abolition in a culture where compromise is often the most we...
Gay Life Against Marriage
...Sullivans of the gay community has been successful. They profit from having denigrated the massively innovative public sex culture, which was the social basis of gay politics, as unthinking promiscuity...
You Belong Here, Beloved Reader - An Interview with Diriye Osman
"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session"
Stone-Age Nostalgia
...our ingredients and culture, hoping to rediscover our history and shape our future.” The Fäviken website also draws attention to its use of methods of food preparation (drying, salting, pickling,...