Ramadan Diaries: Many Eids
...sociability. To feed myself, I would taxi to a "Western" hotel where they served a prix fixe menu during the day. The restaurant manager and wait staff took pity on...
Love in the Age of Self-Consciousness
...social processes that shape us, dictating their outcome by administering carefully what we feed into them. Modern identity, then, is born of the alienation of auto-surveillance, which makes the self...
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...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...my RSS feed. And then, I shrugged. Apathy doesn’t seem like the greatest reason to tune out of something that, intellectually and politically speaking, enrages me—or at least should...
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...
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...
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...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...shouldn’t have to teach him to not be mean to you, and I understand if you don’t want to bring it up. Men can get defensive and hurtful as fuck...
Permanent Records
...bros playing beer pong who need to clean up their Facebook when they graduate. We're years beyond that. As it stands now, when the 13-year-olds I teach grow into adulthood,...
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...
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....
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...
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? ...
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...
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...
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 ...