Sunday Reading
...Italy ReclaimUC: Nearly every faculty member of color at UCLA has experienced racial bias In Berkeley, racism never left Academic whores Do student evaluations measure teaching effectiveness? A revenge scenario...
Sunday Reading
...Poems Gwendolyn Brooks' poems for children Dress codes for visiting God On ordering cow dung patties online ReclaimUC: UAW International overrules academic workers' BDS vote Can't disrupt this: Elsevier and...
Hot or Not?
...foolish enough to believe that a ‘natural’ disaster is not politically inflected: Hurricane Sandy will kill many times more people in Haiti than everywhere else combined, despite barely touching the...
Riot Grrrls in Space
...adults, willing to experiment with style and content, which drew influences from a variety of sources including film and the comics of Europe and Japan. Starstruck was very much at...
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...Japan, induced spawning in jellyfish by shifting water temperature. Spangenberg (1965), managed to maintain her jellyfish for over three years at the University of Arkansas medical laboratory by keeping them...
African Poetry: Hope Wabuke
...in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never...
A Pueblo, a World
What from outside seems an extraordinary feat of organization is nothing more than the everyday forms of collective life
The Luck of the Listserve
...in Prospect Park, "eating pie, singing little mermaid songs, and meeting new people." "We should do that again," he says. It's not always picnics and mermaid songs, and not everyone's...
California Mixtape
...It’s the best word Joni Mitchell ever sung. There are about a hundred recorded songs with the same title but her “California”, from 1971’s Blue, does more for...
Sunday Reading
...art from India “Practice resurrection.” ReclaimUC: The family that primitive accumulates together, stays together. Will UC Berkeley occupiers get justice? The impact of budget cuts on California's community colleges A...
Sunday Reading
...reunification" and German national identity From ReclaimUC: Night falls, power rises in Montreal Inside the FBI entrapment strategy Selling out public schools Watch the New York Times write an entire...
Sunday Reading
...impact on how its inhabitants use it" Why you shouldn't call Delhi our 'rape capital' Rape and Death ReclaimUC: Sharp critique of incoming UC Berkeley chancellor by former colleagues at...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.16.12
...bucks says one of the songs is called "I Blush to Admit." Also, wearing green on Thursdays: About-Face asks why it's remotely okay to sexualize M&Ms. The Beheld asks if...
Who's That Girl?
...are we expected to connect to someone by way of bangs, kooky songs, and an overplayedDirty Dancing DVD? Showing a version of Jess that is anything other than awkwardly cute...
Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...shape or foster artistic breakthroughs. The accusation that the city is risk-averse and WASP-y descends from an 'age-old attitude central to the very culture of Boston itself: a city where...
Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...his own delirious repsonse to a double rainbow captures a culture-wide sense of joy at being able to experience miraculous nature and capture it too, master it, make it seemingly...