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...
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 Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
Classics
...bourgeois society is war. Those who want to approach the knowledge held in the academy must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers....
(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...
Canceled Message (Part Two)
...one in which the internet becomes a "stream," an image that conjures more of a gently babbling brook than the digital culture shock I just described. The ubiquity of the...
Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
Time Is a Killer
...looks like she’s in her eighties. Look how wise she is, he speculates. Women, as carriers of culture, develop wrinkles that tell fortunes. Wise old creatures… Myrtle as Myrtle will...
Bookin' It
...Schuster in 2015. Writing a book has been a longtime goal of mine, and writing this book—a comprehensive "where are we now?" survey of women (and men!) and beauty culture...
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...
Guides for the Perplexed
...is ubiquitous and compelling, university administrators also try to win new students' loyalty with orientation programs, in which several days of social activities with other students and programming from the...
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...
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...
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...
The Body Always Remembers
...all in your head,” you’re not really in pain, and there’s a lot of shame around mental illness in our culture, too. So if your pain stems from trauma, then...
Print on Demand
...with the newness of their archive, especially compared to some of the material they encountered in their research. That weekend, we handled 18th century Islamic manuscripts and 20th century leftist...