Sunday Reading
...Twitterpolitics Borrowed Images The Revolution Will Be Tweeted (the inevitable lede) Musical Militancy Carta de Rubén Blades a Nicolás Maduro Nicolás Maduro responde a Ruben Bladés (y muestra su...
Police Mortality
...extracted hundreds of scenes. Many are hilarious out of context, in which police are killed, kill, or otherwise act piggish. Impressively, the clips communicate well enough with one another to...
Introduction
...fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich Mass popular protest followed, met with violent reprisal by Kibaki's state apparatus. Police were given shoot-to-kill orders, and hundreds...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
Les Saignantes @ The Morbid Anatomy Museum
...and nightlife is dominated by the exclusive wakes of Very Important People. When two young women, Majolie and Chouchou, kill a senior politician, they make a plan to wrest power...
The Paradox of Progress
...called progress. Displayed alongside colonized and conquered peoples W.J.T. Mitchell gives a great overview about the multiple connections between dinosaur culture at the American frontier in The Last Dinosaur Book,...
Walter White Supremacy
...special meth that only he can make because it's pure and a scientist made it with stainless steel and it's blue. That's how a timid high school teacher became a...
"Healthy" Nationalism?
...American flags were in fashion, I asked my politics teacher why we (Germans) weren’t allowed to wear our own flag. He said there was a time when we were allowed...
#mybodymyhome (i)
...dismissed as “minor,” “trivial,” “irrelevant.” Hon. Duale’s colleague, Hon. Mulu, argued, “in the Kamba culture, there is nothing like sexual harassment when you are dealing with a wife or husband....
Some Thoughts on Fruitvale Station, and No Angel
...they have killed, after all, which means it is (perversely) respect for the value of life that allows us to take life without moral penalty. A policeman can kill someone...
Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 2
...confident that Hillary would win, it's time to finally kill the liberal in our heads and start thinking in a more clear-eyed manner about the way the world works. Let...
Special Victims
...of the defilement, rehabilitation, and revenge that high-grossing movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, and Gone have since employed. Recent films like Miss Bala and Martha...
Superman/Everyman
...that which does not kill us makes us stronger, with the exception of Kryptonite. But the midcentury fascination with the terrifying idea of the Übermensch reached its extreme in Clarence...
Fan Fiction
...engage culture from within. Our authors use fiction to explode boundaries. The criticism is coming from inside the house. In 1969, three female students at Freie Universität in Berlin disturbed...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...sex only a little kinky. Can I go now? If I’m not back soon they’ll kill him. --Witness #83 Words fail me. I do not know how to speak of...
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...