America.
...2nd Amendment—deranged, but not without an inner logic pertaining to people’s uninfringeable desire for danger—not only in the central role of the gun in the mass killing of those who...
black . . . gay
.... gay” formation. Dagmawi Woubshet writes, “Given the persistence of death in black life, black culture is imbued with an anticipatory sense of loss, recalibrating the calendar of mourning to...
Forget Me Not
...rush to commission a memorial for Sean Collier, the police officer who had been killed on the MIT campus in the multi-day chase following the Boston Marathon bombing. But myriad...
Psychic Refuge
..."translate" cultural difference; for example, in some cultures people may not identify individualized emotions but identify them as part of collective, family or social feelings, which are not compatible with...
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
Sci-Fi Crime Drama With A Strong Black Lead
...look like stereotyped representation of their traits as defined by a particular software system, and that that stereotype will align with the biases of the local culture in which it...
Hanford Idyll
...(and to protect Hanford from outside interference) is now itself protected from development and agriculture, part of an edenic landscape imagined into the future. The Reach is presented as an...
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
...the overlap between online and offline violence is emblematic of the same perils of patriarchal power that give rise to rape culture in the “ real world .” The Internet...
Sunday Reading
...is written in five scripts Tourists Flock to South Korea's 'German Village' A Taste of Algerian Music Out of the Hadhramaut - on the Arab diaspora in South-East Asia Of...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.5.12
...The timing is particularly iffy, as the products are made in Japan, which is currently sparring with China over an archipelago of islands; strong branding has prevented sagging sales of...
Sunday Reading
...suspensions really become rarer? Tech transfer and the privatization of the public university British universities turn to capital markets Towards a new community of scholars Culture of misogyny in Isla...
The Daddest Place on Earth
...aesthetic of theme parks is total sensory excess: gaudy overwhelming explosions of color and light, blaring music, screaming children, wafting odors of fried dough, heat, jostling crowds. The choice of...
It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream
...good measure fragments of reptile brain were added, along with an eyeball or two. In Japan the 4th century emperor Nintoku was so taken with ice and its ability to...
Sunday Reading
...and look stupid: the ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr every conversation ever about sexual harassment watching male team sports while female Sia Fiegel's songs of the fat brown woman the healthy...
Once Upon a Dream
...songs, the sardonic, aggressive edge to her impressionistic lyrics is sharper, and there’s something like anger in her relentless sexy posturing. The press emphasized that Jolie herself—megastar, businesswoman, Special Envoy...