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,...
Counterfeit
...only up until it’s recognized on its own merits. Authenticity is not a commodity, but it is a marker of value. Health emerges from “real” food, certified organic and tracked...
Autonomy in Kurdistan
...years, such as liberation in culture, art, gender relations, a new democratic perspective, organization of all sections of society on the basis of politics, civil society, and gender. We saw...
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Panpsychism's Labyrinth
...from the “inauthentic.” Bloch’s work “demonstrates a radical indifference to the problem of objectification in culture,” Rabinbach writes, “and therefore to the problem of whether or not objectification constitutes the...
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Human Nature
...believe, is the key to unlocking an epochal crisis in capitalism. The crisis won’t come from nature alone; capitalism won’t end without us. Most of us tend to operate as...
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...Head novel, let’s try the one that won’t confuse people. DONE. I’m giving Nicholls some good-natured sass, here (sorry dude), because, as someone who studies, reads, and teaches contemporary African...
The Native Struggle
The Red Nation's manifesto for Indigenous liberation in the 21st century
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
Seeing it Hole
...have witnessed the most important restructuring of global capitalism since WWII, important questions remain. We know that commodities flow through global logistical chains and people, without papers and with them,...
Administrative Remedy
...avenue to the courts, as the Constitution requires. But it just so happens that I've recently completed a year-and-a-half-long experiment documenting how the system actually operates, having gradually mailed out...