Robots on an Escalator
...I noticed that with was inside the quotation marks as well. Never mind others' abandoning you; don't abandon yourself. I tried to delete my Twitter feed recently, but soon discovered...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Death by Immortality
...attached to fertile gardens that will create and feed communities. How can I not mourn such a loss? It feels silly and self-indulgent to claim that my metaphors have been...
Gold Star, Brown Family
...the invasion into Iraq that killed this fallen Captain, whose parents she used as pawns. A war like this has done a lot to feed the same fear that bigots...
Sunday Reading
...terrorists” ReclaimUC: Why solidarity is important, or, an open letter to UC faculty SFPD kill City College scholarship student after gentrifiers get suspicious As Maine goes, so goes the nation:...
Sunday Reading
...(as Susie Cagle said: good on sports, bad on local politics. Pay attention: this will be on the test.) ReclaimUC: Problems always come from outside On grad school and "love"...
Sunday Reading
...before Disgrace: A Dutchman Commissions Two Golconda Miniatures on Eve of Mughal Conquest Tibetan Libraries in Present-Day China The history of sawt al-khaleej Foucault in Iran ReclaimUC: Securitization, risk management,...
Stories of Our Lives: Memories
...of the household? Why are women not getting married? Why are couples divorcing? One cannot escape the unrelenting heteronormativity of Kenya. Heteronormativity, as Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner teach us,...
Sunday Reading
...University: a brief history Open letter on the controversy concerning Jasbir Puar's talk at Vassar Why DeRay McKesson's mayoral campaign looks like it comes right out of Teach for America's...
The Ahmeds in America, Part Three
...was on American culture - we needed to be coached in this topic in order to successfully teach American students, and integrate into our new surroundings. “The first thing that...
Liberation:Transmission
...Image | Wambui Mwangi Historians teach us that freedom dreams travel and infect. They spread desires and transmit energies. The history of black emancipation, the long emancipation as...
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
...the underbrush to unexpectedly encounter a couple of chickadees, or just outside her window where the ruffed grouse of winter were drawn by her piano music. Birdwatching through Bailey’s guide...