Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
In Defense of Looting
...weren’t part of the protest!” or words to that effect, they are trying to fight a horrifically racist history of black people depicted in American culture as robbers and thieves:...
Hurt People
The state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other
Reader's Digest
...A Review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac So strange and hectic a phantasmagoria were the streets of the...
Plantation Neoliberalism
...opposite direction.” It is, in other words, a flight from reconstituted plantations to somewhere else, a refusal of work and work’s culture whose negative movement opens space for something new....
Take Me Away
A love letter to Mariah Carey
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...hasn't nevermind. Geekery 101: I've seen snippets of some not-great news about sexism in geek culture lately, but since I fall more on the dork end of the spectrum than...
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
...a feeling of autonomy? What does it even matter if an artwork is autonomous? Doesn't that just mean that the culture has succeeded in depoliticizing it? Is autonomy a form...
Fact Check!
...the fact-checkers I’ve ever known just didn't want to be responsible for inaccuracies. The people Gopnik cites were nevertheless onto something. A new culture of fact-checking is emerging in the...
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...invitation with a torrent of JPEGs tagged with commentary on rape culture, on the allegations against him, and further lambasting his hypocritical respectability politics. I have no idea what he...
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
Reality Fiction
...to me that maybe inadvertently you sort of put yourself into the literary tradition. SH: I guess all of us were watching TV. And it felt like the whole culture,...
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
...How does such a definition come to take hold, when the culture it emerges from is filled with very explicit accounts of horror, from the zombie film to the serial...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 1)
...--John Corbin, The Return of the Middle Class (1922) With higher wages came increased consumption of goods, among them furniture and cooking utensils. In time there developed a culture peculiar...
The Origins of American Women’s Exercise
...variations in embodiment or identity. Further Reading: Todd, Jan. Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870 . Mercer University Press, 1998. Verbrugge,...
Open Channels
...Sue/Marty Stu character. But Cho doesn’t stop at experimenting with different identities—aspects of his own subjectivity go with him, flooding the characters he inhabits. In “The Sound of Music,” for...