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,...
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
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...
"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
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
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...
She Mad and She Magic
...diptych. The book interweaves history, cultural narratives and archetypes, popular culture, and the author’s personal anecdotes to tell a story in two parts. Part one offers a picture of the...
The State of the Unions
A group of people from various positions and experiences with labor unions and worker movements gathered to discuss the problems and potential of labor organizing today. What follows is an edited version of their conversation.
The Taste of Earth
...that people from South Asia have been here for 5000 years. I pointed out that culture changes and we cannot make a direct link between what may have happened 5000...
An Evening with Gulf Labor @ The New School
...of a publication, The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor. This event features reports by Gulf Labor members Nitasha Dhillon, Mariam Ghani, Amin Husain, Andrew Ross and Gregory Sholette and focuses on...
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
Sunday Reading: October 29, 2023
...art market runs on being a tax incentivized wealth management program, the efforts by those who benefit from that program to assert their political views on culture workers is still...
Real Human Being
...the human features its own aspirations and ways of relating—which, taken together, make up what Wynter calls a culture’s “descriptive statement.” Wynter argues that the West, through imperial expansion and...
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...
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,...