Erasing Black AIDS Histories
...light that the writer and activist Kenyon Farrow was asked to consult on the exhibition years ago. He had suggested the curators look into House and Ball culture, the work...
The Nonviolent/Violent Dichotomy
...tried to escape and, when the man caught up with her, she stabbed him with a paring knife. No one challenged the prosecution of a low-income Creek woman for defending...
Sunday Reading
...adjuncts will be hurt as total privatization looms. Roomba for hospital disinfection. In Soviet Reclaim UC, everything occupies you. ReclaimUC: "The University [of California] lost a lawsuit against students and...
When Lovers Die
...aged frame; he feeds and cleans her with an admirable minimum of expressed frustration; he sings children’s songs with her so she can enjoy her last fragmented moments of lucidity....
Editors’ Note, Vol. 63: Patriots
It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known
Patriots
...a new, humane workplace culture through office dogs. In “Capitalism With a Fluffy Face,” Jonny Bunning discusses how “dogs on the job” are just another perk, implicated in a larger...
Coming to America
...we didn’t need their money and benefits. But we did. There was no amount of oils, incense, or music he could sell that would provide what the State provided. That...
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
...art mentors in my life, Ricardo Dominguez). At the beginnings of a recombinant Internet culture, Critical Art Ensemble imagined a networked mode of sharing and re-writings ideas--of remixing words and...
Sunday Reading
...this list of synonyms for 'businessman' even longer." ReclaimUC: Severing UC's ties to the fossil fuel industry Department of African American Studies statement on Steven Salaita, Michael Brown, and Ferguson,...
Using Life: Instructions for Play
...contemporary Egypt: the perfidy of friends and lovers, the “kitschification” of culture, and, most importantly, conspiracies wrought in the realm of architecture and urban planning. The book is a play,...
Whose Streets?
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
Texas Stands With Gaza
...it. I use W.E.B. DuBois’ words, there, because he describes double-consciousness in terms which fit the experience, one of the many places where DuBois will teach you more about being...
Salvage, Without the Punk
...and culture, especially once the “post-apocalyptic” becomes a consistently blockbusting genre that anticipates a general worldview. Salvage is perhaps best conceived as an operation within these drifts of meaning, rather...
Sunday Reading: June 4, 2023
...song. “In practical terms,” Brooks writes,” the camp meetings of the Second Great Awakening were the first American music festivals…. This is where the idea that pop songs can save...
American Woman
Wonder Woman unsettles superheroes from within a national tradition that demands their existence
Charles Manson Was a Republican
Long incorrectly associated in the public mind with the political left, Manson wasn’t merely conservative; he might as well have been a Fed