Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...Piggin' out. New law empowers Maine schools to feed uneaten school-lunch fare to farm hogs Fast-food fulfillment centers? Familiar chains have begun opening "ghost kitchens" dedicated exclusively to deliveries ordered...
Anti-Anti-Parasitism
...recognize that parasites—humans and non-humans alike—feed not off of individuals but off of relationships. They interrupt the connections between an individual and his food source, between communities, between an organism...
Room for Improvement
...humbugged humanity find a decent place to feed? Echo answered, "In the eating-houses." We resolved to try it, and the result is glorious. We have achieved a victory, sir, an...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 14, 2020)
...Pyttipanna: Swedish for "small pieces in a pan." Image: Boston Public Library Aussie government begins airborne food drops to feed wildlife displaced by ongoing fires Celebrity survivalist finds dead...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.7.13
...Fast and Furious has a thing or two to teach Star Trek—or at least J.J. Abrams—about presenting women onscreen. (Thanks to reader Jame-Ane for the link!) Shopping stigma: I...
Bad Housekeeping
...tinkers with PAT’s algorithms to teach her how to be his new mom. PAT studies videos of 1950s housewives and patterns her behavior after them—nagging, judging, shrewing, and other stereotypes...
Death Is Not The End
...Ghost also entails dismissing the supernatural, which has important implications for his doctrine. One of the most significant roles the Church occupies in culture is the passing down of tradition....
Editors' Note, Vol. 29: Queens
...Derica Shields writes of searching visual culture for a reflection of herself and ends face-to-face with Queen Elizabeth I, her white head in the writer’s brown hand, both weighted with...
Sunday Reading
...hear you. We stand with you." On the unpaid and gendered "invisible care-work" that keeps academia running Open letter to DeRay McKesson on Teach For America and racial justice in...
Blue History
...incomplete. Knowing more means learning in ways inextricably linked with many humans and nonhumans, stretched in relations across and through the seas. Scientific expertise will not teach us everything when...
Don't Be A Hero
...action without threatening structural change. These range from the education reform behemoth Teach for America to anti-prostitution initiatives, from government programs with multimillion dollar annual budgets like Americorps to the...
Damning With Faint Prize: Stanley Kenani’s “Love on Trial”
...more than teach my readers that their past--with all its imperfections--was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.” By contrast,...
Further Reading
... Introduction to The Prison Industrial Complex I recommend everything on the blog Prison Culture “How the PIC Structures Our World…” The Black Youth Project Young People Continue To Talk...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...institutions teach you it’s OK to speak over and for marginal communities and treat them like non-sentient pet projects, info mines, excuses for grants, and notches on your belt rather...
The Ladies Vanish
...teach computers to do what engineers (mostly men) While the entire tech industry has huge gender disparities, the gender gap gets significantly more pronounced when we look specifically at the...