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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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):...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Glossary
...teach you. The eyewitness also revealed that Snake had been lied to, the injection containing merely a saline solution. When questioned further about this, the source said that he overheard...
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...