Back to School
...When white teachers in the New York City school district defied their union and their employer’s orders not to wear shirts bearing the NYPD insignia on the first day...
Two Tears for Suboxone
...the Institution teach you how to use mysterious spiritual powers to destroy the root of your disease. It works like this: RECALL those moments scattered through your life when something...
Sunday Reading: July 23, 2023
...pundits like Jessie Singal are platformed, while trans politics is relegated to the Culture and Style sections. In response to public and in-house backlash, the Times at first appears to...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...Didn’t your studies in Marxism teach you about power dynamics and how people like you have literally owned people like us? Or what it is to be a settler versus...
Difference: An Audre Lorde Archive
...and Lesbians of Color are different because we are embattled by reason of our sexuality and our Color, and if there is any lesson we must teach our children, it...
Leak, Memory
...other guards teach Slahi strategy. “Before the prison, I didn’t know the difference between a pawn and the rear end of a knight,” Slahi writes in his characteristically playful voice....
Death is Not the End
...important implications for his doctrine. One of the most significant roles the Church occupies in culture is the passing down of tradition. When divinely inspired dogma is the essence of...
Eco Chamber
...punchlines and cack-handed clichés. (“Most academics are too unqualified to teach; the rest, too unchaste”; “The only difference between studying in a university and teaching in a university is the...
Death Is Not The End
...Ghost also entails dismissing the supernatural, which has important implications for his doctrine. One of the most significant roles the Church occupies in culture is the passing down of tradition....
Temple of Womb
...the state had created to imbibe propaganda now demanded more video, and the technologies deployed to teach them were repurposed to avoid the film censors’ decency regulations. In this climate,...
Do Lipstick Feminists Actually Exist?
...as, yes, strident; we need nice-girl feminists who take pride in gently educating others about feminism; we need people whose response to teach me is don’t make me do your...
Bad Housekeeping
...tinkers with PAT’s algorithms to teach her how to be his new mom. PAT studies videos of 1950s housewives and patterns her behavior after them—nagging, judging, shrewing, and other stereotypes...
Trouble at the Language Lab
...very wary of those who try to bend words to their will. There are in fact places in our world where people claim to be able to teach you this...
What Does a Woman Know?
...brought her to Egypt with his crew (1926-27), and she was really excited about it. He asked her frequently to come to Chicago to teach, but she continually turned him...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.7.13
...Fast and Furious has a thing or two to teach Star Trek—or at least J.J. Abrams—about presenting women onscreen. (Thanks to reader Jame-Ane for the link!) Shopping stigma: I...
Sunday Reading
...hear you. We stand with you." On the unpaid and gendered "invisible care-work" that keeps academia running Open letter to DeRay McKesson on Teach For America and racial justice in...