From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
7 Days of Queer Theory
...With Normal," can kick us off: "The received wisdom in straight culture, is that all of its different norms line up, that one is synonymous with the others. If you...
Philosophers of Babel
...funding to match: Eurothink at its academic best. Why else would the culture czars of Paris and Brussels who’ve brought you the yearly European Culture Capitals (Umeå, anyone?) and Quaero...
City of Brotherly Love
...consumer gay culture satisfied with glossy representations as a sign of progress. But I wondered what Looking would show me about the image of a gentrified San Francisco, framed for...
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You
...Mohaiemen ([email protected]) explores borders, wars, and belonging through essays and film. His essays include “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic roots of hip-hop” (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture,...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
[this is the first part/lead in to the essay published in the TNI Cops issue, an essay that began as a talk. (Hence a certain chattiness.) At the...
The Sabotage of Time
...hijacks the time of circulation and arms it against itself. Some topics include: friction, feedback, and hoards; Doreen Massey's geography; book 2 of Capital; Castoriadis, Simondon, and Stiegler on technical...
RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
Clear Satire
...satire isn’t is: a genre. Novels, tragedies, sonnets, horror movies, musical theater, and so on are all genres which you can identify as such by pointing to a fairly limited...
Love Worth Fighting For
...the face of these omnipresent siren songs of convenience, we must try to cling to a different and opposed conception of what love might be. Later in the New Left...
African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
...this poem, I hear Everett Standa and Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye teaching Kenyan students to give faces and names and lives to those considered disposable. The creep at the bus stop becomes...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The sanctuary campus movement and local points of resistance A call for sanctuary Beyond sanctuary cities/campuses: stop deportations by any means A map of sanctuary campuses "It is...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Students at UC Berkeley turn the tables on a racist professor 96 hours of action concludes with successful campus shut down Students seeking to redesignate restrooms as...
African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
...images (photographs) and by the bodies that lived it (the poet’s body). The book also meditates on aging. And one section gestures toward how suffering might teach us to extend...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: UC's new methodology for determining the cost of education is absurd Can UC answer these 5 big questions about its spending? No confidence in the University of...
Sunday Reading
...Alexandria villa facing demolition The difficulties faced by Pashtun singers ReclaimUC: "[T]he whiter the school, the more diversity depicted in the brochures" Dude, where's the race in your class analysis...