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...
The Ladies Vanish
...teach computers to do what engineers (mostly men) While the entire tech industry has huge gender disparities, the gender gap gets significantly more pronounced when we look specifically at the...
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
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...
Sunday Reading
...hear you. We stand with you." On the unpaid and gendered "invisible care-work" that keeps academia running Open letter to DeRay McKesson on Teach For America and racial justice in...
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...
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...
Blue History
...incomplete. Knowing more means learning in ways inextricably linked with many humans and nonhumans, stretched in relations across and through the seas. Scientific expertise will not teach us everything when...
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 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...
Don't Be A Hero
...action without threatening structural change. These range from the education reform behemoth Teach for America to anti-prostitution initiatives, from government programs with multimillion dollar annual budgets like Americorps to the...
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....
"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...