Sunday Reading
...my sitting" ReclaimUC: On the ongoing failure of the UC administration to confront racism on campus Public universities as tax shelters Revolutionary study against and beyond the university The lessons...
Sunday Reading
...You” The purity of drones Google Writes Poetry on Subjects that People are Truly Interested In Smoke Screen and Smoke Signals Mapping Drone Strikes in Pakistan ReclaimUC Follow the money,...
Sunday Reading
...Student Loans Immoral? ReclaimUC UC/CSU: Time for a fundamental rethinking of the role of the UC administration. Pepper-sprayed students from UC Davis win settlement worth $1 million with the UC...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Famous UC Berkeley astronomer sexually harassed multiple women over many years A long history of sexual harassment Letter to the New York Times about its coverage of...
Trophy Season
...for J to teach me, because it's a perfectly natural thing to see a person who's punching people and assume that person is kind of a jerk. As a teacher...
Downward-Facing Drones
...to a faith in asana. All these news stories point to the same truth: In the U.S., yoga often begets a toxic culture that encourages, if not outright rewards, dangerously...
Red Light Green Light
...where I teach. You can still say “those kindergarteners” to anyone who was there at the time and they’ll know exactly who you’re talking about. It feels both factually and...
Not for Teacher
...school represented just another space where they were criminalized for their style and culture. The school … was indistinguishable from the police officer stationed at McDonald’s, the adults in the...
School's Out Forever
...others.” Classrooms, tellingly, are usually depicted in popular culture as excruciatingly boring. Teachers post Calvin and Hobbes cartoons about the soul-crushing banality of compulsory attendance on the classroom walls. In...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...questioning the existence of a god of any gender. My father was a bit more enthusiastic, going so far as to teach Sunday school, but even at 7 years old...
Summertime Selves (On Professionalization)
The summertime self discloses the logic of the utopian university fantasy: Probably never are we more of it than when we think we’re outside of it.
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
Five Questions with Michael Kelleher
...Why shouldn’t a great teacher (or translator or editor or literary culture worker, for that matter) who’s not a researcher receive the same consideration? How about, 'Devote yourself to your...
Dear Mammy
...you don’t have the time but can you do me a HUGE favor? I teach Corregidora on Monday. Haven’t read it yet but I know you are familiar with the...
Northanger Abbey and antisocial pleasure
...all — but she won't glorify it in her heroine. Better for her to avoid the antisocial temptations of the emerging consumer culture by being nonsocial, disappearing into domesticity....
Discipline and Pleasure
...Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us DEPRESSION and addiction are hard to distinguish...