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...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.7.13
...Fast and Furious has a thing or two to teach Star Trek—or at least J.J. Abrams—about presenting women onscreen. (Thanks to reader Jame-Ane for the link!) Shopping stigma: I...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #140
...soldier, sailor. It is not a poem you memorize and recite to demonstrate cultural achievement, or as a means of producing a mental archive of Culture to call upon in...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...to create a desirable future for the ZAD post-cancellation.10 We could name some other desirable futures: fighting against land grabs by industrial agriculture; self-built housing that frees itself from urban...
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
The Clique Imaginary
...ambition. Whether or not a pop-culture representation of a female friend group will be categorized as a clique hinges largely on whether viewers believe they would be accepted into the...
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...
Bees Are Dying
...have one thing in common: us. Whether it was monoculture, or pesticides, or breeding, or -- the most likely scenario -- a combination of all three plus global warming, it...
New Masses
...the Western consumer to be moved, and to have that consumer’s beliefs stroked rather than complicated.” For now, global wage disparities make automating service work like this cheaper to conduct...
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...
Room Boys
...of insanity, somewhat unusual even for a studied Emirates mouthpiece. "You can be forgiven for mistaking the housing cluster near the Abu Dhabi border for a gated residential community," the...
Model Architecture: Breaking Godwin’s Law
...architecture” was its scale. “Perhaps it was less their size,” he wrote, “than the way they violated the human scale that made them abnormal.” Hitler’s desire to compare himself to...
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.
Making Again, Making Against
...African rand, Botswana pula, British pound sterling, Indian rupee, euro, Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, and Australian dollar. This system hasn’t restored trust in Zimbabwe’s monetary systems, though; there is persistent...