Blue History
...incomplete. Knowing more means learning in ways inextricably linked with many humans and nonhumans, stretched in relations across and through the seas. Scientific expertise will not teach us everything when...
Don't Be A Hero
...action without threatening structural change. These range from the education reform behemoth Teach for America to anti-prostitution initiatives, from government programs with multimillion dollar annual budgets like Americorps to the...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...institutions teach you it’s OK to speak over and for marginal communities and treat them like non-sentient pet projects, info mines, excuses for grants, and notches on your belt rather...
Damning With Faint Prize: Stanley Kenani’s “Love on Trial”
...more than teach my readers that their past--with all its imperfections--was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.” By contrast,...
Further Reading
... Introduction to The Prison Industrial Complex I recommend everything on the blog Prison Culture “How the PIC Structures Our World…” The Black Youth Project Young People Continue To Talk...
Kindergarten/Cops
...for a week after a white shirt told me I deserved to be arrested, but American culture and society tells boys like David much, much worse. It sucks when people...
Editors' Note, Vol. 29: Queens
...Derica Shields writes of searching visual culture for a reflection of herself and ends face-to-face with Queen Elizabeth I, her white head in the writer’s brown hand, both weighted with...
The Ladies Vanish
...teach computers to do what engineers (mostly men) While the entire tech industry has huge gender disparities, the gender gap gets significantly more pronounced when we look specifically at the...
The Withdrawal Method
...end up powering the standardized, homologated and commodified mechanisms that oppress you. But if Guy Debord and his merry band had anything to teach the world, it is always to...
Sunday Reading
...from Delhi to New York. And also Tihar Jail: In which the Delhi police force and jail authorities find out about ‘Subaltern Studies’ Can pop culture be far behind? ...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...shouldn’t have to teach him to not be mean to you, and I understand if you don’t want to bring it up. Men can get defensive and hurtful as fuck...
That Transformative Dark Thing
...reality into alignment with those dreams? How can we celebrate and teach the capacity Ida B. Wells had to speak truth to power? The way Audre Lorde channeled her emotional...
Variations on a Theme: Poor Loonies
...loonies.” - Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift ___ “Now,” says Mr. Gradgrind, “what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life....
radical queer africa
...wants—listen to my vision” As Audre Lorde and Frantz Fanon teach, guilt is a useless emotion and a certain white liberalism is inherently masochistic: make me cry, it demands, make...
Permanent Records
...bros playing beer pong who need to clean up their Facebook when they graduate. We're years beyond that. As it stands now, when the 13-year-olds I teach grow into adulthood,...
To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted
...She also taught courses at Woods Hole years before she was permitted to teach at Dartmouth. Before becoming a full professor, she served as President of the Phycological Society of...