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.
Warning
...begun laying siege to a second, the governor of Minnesota held a press conference in which he claimed that white supremacists were coming from out of state to instigate violent...
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...
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...
Syria’s Desaparecidos
...its independent agents, estimates that over 65,000 people disappeared between March 2011 and August 2015. Of all the blood spilled in Syria’s war, forced disappearance has received comparably little attention;...
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...
Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
...Versace collaboration, a product is 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...
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
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...
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...
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...remarkable. Compare the actual "Group of Hair Death" ballot with a prospective ballot featuring those countries' female national players: Why would this be, when, generally speaking,...
Vol. 68 Editors' Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
Un(der)seen Cinema: The Decline of Western Civilization
...fucking life is a wreck / we're desperate / get used to it it's kiss or kill / coca-cola and a motorola kitchen / nauga-hyde and a tie-dye t-shirt /...
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
...EEK! In 2009, speculations that ??????? might attempt to kill Imp Kerr intensified. Intelligence officials warned that ??????? had arranged her "imminent physical elimination," in Manhattan, in this town,...
Butterfly Effect
...asunder, or stamp upon them, they still persist in living. But a butterfly is killed easily enough, and the only difficulty is to know how to kill it without damaging...