This Sex Which Is Not Two
...which that clearly wasn’t true, in which culture became woven into the fabric of scientific knowledge. And that was the same thing people were finding in other fields of women’s...
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
How to Talk About the Weather
...abnormal weather and that’s how we got Frankenstein. How much do you distinguish culture and history from weather itself? UH: For anybody who’s interested in how people live with nature,...
"Imagine What We'll Build for One Another": an Interview with Jules Gill-Peterson
Health justice scholar Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about anti-trans policy, eugenics, and the material stakes of desire
Antiporn Land
...1960s-style Brutalist office building in South London for the U.K. launch of Stop Porn Culture (SPC), an international feminist antiporn organization of which Dines, a British-born, Boston-based academic, is the...
The Art of Conjecturing
...after passing through all the gates, halls, and guard stations, you could finally receive full authorization!” The young Lem never tried to produce the blank form granting full authorization hidden...
Scenes Resembling Civil War
...protest and nearly a hundred thousand came; many attempted to storm the building site and occupy it. As the police tried to drive protesters away with clubs and water cannons,...
Hackers Gonna Hack
...dental technician who had tried to alert Patterson Dental that their software left patient records exposed. Still, bounty prices are often criticized for valuing bugs -- and the labor of...
When Blogger Comes Marching Home
...do to minimize distractions would be a good thing. I tried it again the next day and found that I focused a little better, that I felt more "on." ...
Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
The Unmanageable University
...attracting student protest across the state and consistent opposition by Governor Jerry Brown. Yet both Brown and Napolitano have tried to use students as pawns in their game. Their decisions...
The Silver Lining
In a break from constructing predictive models, Nate Silver crafted an entirely new universe to answer the question “What if Hillary won?” Following a prolonged radio silence, this latest dispatch from Earth 2 explains why we haven’t heard from him since.
Beauty and Infidelity, Part III: The Other Woman
...that her steely expression belied a map of tears. He and I broke up a month later. I heard through friends that he tried to get back together with her,...
Poems From Guantanamo
...checks.) For the purposes of the war on terror, the government tried to designate Guantanamo extraterritorial, out of reach of the U.S. legal system. The Supreme Court disagreed, in 2008....
Rome, 1974
...the photos after, it really was like the whole piazza had been made into a place for rubbish, with junk all over the ground, and although my parents tried to...