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):...
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? ...
"life that could fit in a spreadsheet"
...in addition to political science, I studied economics in a private Mexican University called ITAM, where they teach purely neoliberal economics. They call it “neoclassical economics,” but it's the Chicago...
Managing Hearts with Kim and Flo
...platforms and an estimated player base of 200 million. The games are distinguished by low time commitment, easy access, and a return of the video game to mass culture and...
Trouble at the Language Lab
...very wary of those who try to bend words to their will. There are in fact places in our world where people claim to be able to teach you this...
Do Lipstick Feminists Actually Exist?
...as, yes, strident; we need nice-girl feminists who take pride in gently educating others about feminism; we need people whose response to teach me is don’t make me do your...
What Does a Woman Know?
...brought her to Egypt with his crew (1926-27), and she was really excited about it. He asked her frequently to come to Chicago to teach, but she continually turned him...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.9.12
...does. This is never not part of the equation, precisely because of the (internalized and usual) societal validation women get for losing weight." Culture clash: The press has gotten somewhat...
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...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...will teach them about themselves and build on that. Even if they do somehow go to a so-called “good school,” the school will try to mold them into a facsimile...
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...
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...