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
...merge in Bitcoin. The quiet desperation of the TaskRabbit. ReclaimUC : Your education is not more important than any other struggle Zombie MOOCs Teaching while black and blue The eliminative...
Sunday Reading
...in California's Punjabi-Mexican community On digital detox, and pathologizing connection RIP William Weaver, translator of Umberto Eco ReclaimUC: Open letter to the UC Berkeley community about the intimidation of grad...
Sunday Reading
...the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report ReclaimUC: UC Davis spent at least $175,000 to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet The University...
Sunday Reading
...Old Delhi The history and social impact of refrigeration ReclaimUC: Some rules for teachers How one of America's last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its legacy Myths about...
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...
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...
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...
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...