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...
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...
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...
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
Lumps of Labor
...or under what conditions — they’re at least creating some value and thereby doing their part to feed the Economy rather than leeching value out of it. Given how much...
The Strangers
...the Renaissance or of the modern in its various iterations; for teachers, they are not easy images to teach properly; and they nevertheless transcend their craftsmanship. The subjects of these...
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....
Not by Bread-and-Marg Alone
...the opposite is true: Unhealthy eating habits don't develop as a result of instinct; they have to be learned -- and a processed-food industry stands ready to teach them....
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...
Sunday Reading
...School administrators are learning police interrogation techniques Urgent update from the University of Hyderabad French students against racist police brutality / video What's really going on inside Teach for America...
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,...
Death is Not the End
...important implications for his doctrine. One of the most significant roles the Church occupies in culture is the passing down of tradition. When divinely inspired dogma is the essence of...
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...
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...
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...