Beauty Blogosphere 4.5.13
...swift for me—I've also taken a good look at my blog feed and have realized it could use a renewal. I love being able to direct you to so many...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
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...
Depthless Psychology
...or representing it, flat writing can resist what affect theorist Lauren Berlant calls the culture of “true feeling”: the insidious suggestion that “what we feel” corresponds directly to the “truth...
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...
Difference: An Audre Lorde Archive
...and Lesbians of Color are different because we are embattled by reason of our sexuality and our Color, and if there is any lesson we must teach our children, it...
Leak, Memory
...other guards teach Slahi strategy. “Before the prison, I didn’t know the difference between a pawn and the rear end of a knight,” Slahi writes in his characteristically playful voice....
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):...
Trigger for What
...the content of those books as universal. Initiation in this corpus is meant to teach critical thinking skills in a way that reading from contemporary media sources supposedly doesn't. Part...
Queens
...though its deployment can teach us about the gender of power. She has avoided the fate of a princess, a title applied with more derision than awe, shaming women for...
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....
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...
The Withdrawal Method
...end up powering the standardized, homologated and commodified mechanisms that oppress you. But if Guy Debord and his merry band had anything to teach the world, it is always to...
Sunday Reading: July 23, 2023
...pundits like Jessie Singal are platformed, while trans politics is relegated to the Culture and Style sections. In response to public and in-house backlash, the Times at first appears to...
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...
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,...