Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
...floors. Like an inane mosquito that might also be giving you malaria, Al Shabab’s Twitter feed buzzes in everyone’s ears, taunting, boasting, sounding anything but “ashamed and defeated” as they...
Appetites
...have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process of feeding one another has broken the...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...Didn’t your studies in Marxism teach you about power dynamics and how people like you have literally owned people like us? Or what it is to be a settler versus...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #140
...soldier, sailor. It is not a poem you memorize and recite to demonstrate cultural achievement, or as a means of producing a mental archive of Culture to call upon in...
The questioning of experience and the images of the Same
...absence of alterity was because alterity was itself a simulacrum. To teach this discovery to people with an IQ inferior to 80, ??????? imagined an aquatic installation (New York, 2011):...
That Transformative Dark Thing
...reality into alignment with those dreams? How can we celebrate and teach the capacity Ida B. Wells had to speak truth to power? The way Audre Lorde channeled her emotional...
Two Tears for Suboxone
...the Institution teach you how to use mysterious spiritual powers to destroy the root of your disease. It works like this: RECALL those moments scattered through your life when something...
The Grouch
...he has a job, and it’s to teach kids about the phenomenon of argument, rudeness and antagonism, and how to tolerate these phenomena as prerequisites for the formation of a...
Sunday Reading
...of Madison? Taking on Teach For America How Barbara Byrd-Bennett worsened racial inequality and hurt public education in Chicago Japanese university humanities and social sciences programs under attack ...
Stories of Our Lives: Introduction
...What might such fragments tell us about how and where queer desire lives and thrives and imagines and dreams? How, in fact, might cum stains on bathroom walls teach us...
Eco Chamber
...punchlines and cack-handed clichés. (“Most academics are too unqualified to teach; the rest, too unchaste”; “The only difference between studying in a university and teaching in a university is the...
Back to School
...rank-and-file teachers and police officers.” Many commenting on the protest noted the symbolic violence of teachers showing up to the first day of class in cop shirts when many of...
Sunday Reading
...from Delhi to New York. And also Tihar Jail: In which the Delhi police force and jail authorities find out about ‘Subaltern Studies’ Can pop culture be far behind? ...
Variations on a Theme: Poor Loonies
...loonies.” - Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift ___ “Now,” says Mr. Gradgrind, “what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life....
Why These Tweets Are Called My Back
...or use google chats to discuss the needs of our community, host teach-ins, work through experiences of sexual violence, build awareness around voices that would never be handed a megaphone...
radical queer africa
...wants—listen to my vision” As Audre Lorde and Frantz Fanon teach, guilt is a useless emotion and a certain white liberalism is inherently masochistic: make me cry, it demands, make...