Testing Beyond Control
...“I’m Feelin’ Like a Criminal: Why the Law Won’t Stop the Spread of HIV.” Positive Women’s Network - USA, pwnusa.wordpress.com. March 8, 2015. Jones is not alone in her distrust....
Whirlpool of the Masses
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
Seoul to Squeeze
Speculative capital will soon destroy one of the South Korean capital’s most vibrant and diverse working-class neighborhoods.
We Were Promised Hot Tubs
...and that being grown up is one compromise, one sellout, one dreary responsibility after another. In fact, it's hard to think of anything in contemporary culture that celebrates adulthood today...
Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail
...show inspired Crystal Gayle to record “Midnight in the Desert,” which ended up in heavy rotation on the show as bumper music: Midnight in the desert and we’re listenin’ to...
Sunday Reading
...Being-in-the-world Miguel James, Against the Police ReclaimUC: The college trap that keeps people poor Why is my curriculum white? Color-blind racism in the push to repeal affirmative action in higher...
Sunday Reading
...Innocent Man? Delusions of the Democrats The Limits of Alternative Africas Why I Left United Airlines Chinese characters and eyesight ReclaimUC: "Predictable" The University of California's failed funding model "The...
African Poetry: Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
...of the nation (you’re an African—write about your history, your culture, your anti colonial struggles, your postcolonial angst). It insists on focusing our gaze on how young women make and...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...classes to happen despite their strike mandate … People eventually come around, building a culture of solidarity and confrontational politics in the process. Soft pickets certainly desiccated the strike—there is...
We Mock What We Don't Understand
...pick up what you can along the way through life without anyone specifically trying to teach you anything useful. The action of Spies Like Us hinges on this theme. Fitz-Hume...
All The Hungry Children
...Bryan Adams. The widest possible constituencies were appealed to—“the world,” “Africa,” “the children,” “them,” “us,” “the other ones,” “people dying,” “God’s great big family,” and so on. The music videos...
Sunday Reading
...Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace America's Failed Promise of Equal Opportunity Pity the Landlord A lack of a culture war truce in one graph: 10 Thoughts About the...
Sunday Reading
...Lost Forever Karamanli Culture in the Ottoman Empire: Hybridity, Identity and Ethnicity [podcast] Why Hindi and cryptic crosswords do not mix Broken Letters: A Typogeography of Europe Reorienting Heritage: Poetic...
Il Salvataggio Selvaggio
...is, he deviated from the correct line: He tried to be human at a time when such was ill-advised. The charts were right, and it was just bad behavior that...
Licensed to Ill
...feed a flu and starve a cold, the saying goes. I've never been one to insist on such distinctions. When I get sick, I feed. Nothing makes my appetite go...
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
...Darfur. It is a place without history and without politics; simply a site where perpetrators clearly identifiable as ‘Arabs’ confront victims clearly identifiable as ‘Africans’. 6. Teju Cole’s twitter feed,...