Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
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...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
...The maqlouba isn't ready yet and though my stomach is growling, I feed on dialogue instead. I talk at length to a friend's wife about the Muslim ban, and why...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...