Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
Sunday Reading
...health Rob Ford and stop-and-frisk Rob Ford and everything else Renisha McBride and self preservation Ray Kelly and campus speech "Twelve Years a Slave" and William Lloyd Garrison ReclaimUC: Why...
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...of capitalism for their ability to feed and sustain themselves and their families. This is not that world. But by blurring them together, by making “internet shame culture” the villain,...
Buffalo Skulls
...mixed-race child is nothing like the mass-killing of white people; to argue that they are similar is nonsense. But does the mixing of America threaten “white culture”? Does immigration and...
Search for a Method
...win. Exum has elsewhere made emphatically clear that, lest he be considered an effete softy, he does not care how many civilians the drone strikes kill: I do not care...
After #CadaanStudies
...out of this colonial history. Academic research and understandings about Somalis supplied the informational needs for colonial governance and control, and many early “experts” on Somali society and culture, like...
History of Dialogue: Tamil Stories
...Both trace a history that the regime of president Mahinda Rajapaska—who ruled Sri Lanka from 2005 until a surprising electoral loss this January—has tried to repress through censorship, slander and...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.13.12
...of black beauty with an in-depth look at the influences—people, fashion, music, education, pop culture—and provide tools and resources to foster a greater sense of self and confidence within the...
Sunday Reading
...a woman in Canada's parliament Undoing a 64-year-old McCarthyite conviction A backlash against McCarthyism in DC's Jewish Community Center Bint Battuta: Port Armenians and global Armenian print culture Jerusalem's 800-year-old...
Representing Crisis
...million by 2018. As New York cultural critic Ellen Willis put it in her essay “Intellectual Work in the Culture of Austerity” (2000), such constrictions within higher education often feel...
Here to Make Friends
...genuine, as did their admiration for each other. Unlike adults, the children didn’t have their egos get in the way ,and they didn’t pretend offense when their competitors tried to...
Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
MPREG versus Homonormcore
...not always necessarily subversive, however, and with an increasing abundance of queer representation in popular culture, fan works can also function as a normative conservative force. Berit Åstrom, who has...
Closing the Loop
...culture media platforms, Feminism with a capital F began largely to overtake the other causes that the selfie politic had previously championed. What remains, in 2016, is a political and...
The Ellipsis That Told the Tale
Until 1969, there were several attacks on the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during the student riots in Germany. This story takes place 30 years later, when the roots and conflicts that fueled the incidents are still being felt in a daughter who is reassembling fact and fiction dating back to 250 AD in an attempt
Why Do Stars Love the Stars?
...Celebrities and their astrologists practice an ancient psychological form of art. A few weeks ago I was invited to do astrology readings backstage at the American Music Awards in...