Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
...of its infant members is to kill it.” Thus wrote Margaret Sanger, the mother of birth control and founder of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.”...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
Fully Operational
...like something Will Smith would kill in a movie. It is mirrored, angular, black, and malevolently futuristic. Critics ranging from the New York Times to parents of NYU students, as...
Econospeak
...and corporations doing, if not constantly “re-establishing themselves” as “market players?” These mantras have been the refrain of HR manuals for decades, but their crossover into pop culture has been...
The Hair Back There
...hard you tried, nothing could de-kink a person’s kitchen.” The kitchen meant resistance. The kitchen saw the options available to make it "tame," and it refused them. It would be...
Gamifying Beauty
...makes me look just wrong; I found a half-up, half-down hairstyle that looked great on me, and when I tried it out on terra firma, it was indeed flattering. The...
Towards a 'Moral' Assassination Model
...most transparent administration in history ' line, this time in a 'fireside hangout' hosted by Google: '[W]hat I tried to do coming into the office was to create a legal...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...to be who I am. I’m not sure if I’ve ever consciously tried to feel sexy. I’ve experimented a little bit more now that I’ve lost some weight; I’ve experimented...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Nine
...waste what they feel." "I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live." You get the feeling she is the kind of person who understands that...
Stories of Our Lives: Suicide
...was. Three times I tried to take my life, but it never worked. How does one listen for the queer children who do not make it? How does one narrate...
Editors' Note, Vol. 40: Trash
...present,” they write. Continuing on their tour of the museum, they pass a monumental pile of failed techno-fixes the feedback loops of capitalism have tried to employ to “black-box” waste...
The Lonely Ones
...later), tried to puzzle out something that seems to have confused Sontag, and is genuinely confusing: the relationship between solitude and romantic love. In Gornick’s 1978 collection, Essays on Feminism,...
Flag-waving And Drowning: On The New Branding Policy Of UKaid
...effects of migration and political struggle. But development officials would be laughed out of their meetings if they actually tried to run a line about the positive legacies of colonialism....
Jar-Jar Jesus
...have refuted this psychosocial equivalent of a breath mint, yet every time I closed my eyes and tried to use the force of my self-belief to make my dog levitate...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.31.12
...its own benefit. Biden Bergamot Body Butter: Bliss releases a limited-edition election product pair: orange-scented O-bama lotion, and Mint Romney lotion. I've tried to think about why this makes my...
“The men will not do it”: 19th Century Sex Work and Reform
...to function as employment agencies that provided material aid and shelter. Although the women of early and mid-century reform societies had negative stereotypes about the women they tried to “save”...