March 2012
Oscar voters overwhelmingly white, male →
February 2012
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The...”
– Form and Fortune: Steve Jobs’s pursuit of perfection—and the consequences
“It is also about a society where certain bodies are considered controlled and...”
– s.e. smith, “Denial As Virtue”
“I understand women like me are hurting and dealing with self-trivialization,...”
– Dear Sugar #48: Write Like A Motherfucker
“The only sketches that areexplicitlyabout racism are historical and the only...”
– Kartina Richardson, “Key & Peele’s” edge-less, post-racial lie”
“A 2002 survey came up with the terrifying result that 81% of Americans think...”
– Shannon Hale on writing
“In her class, I learned that while I had spoken English all of my life, there...”
– Alexander Chee, “Annie Dillard and the Writing Life”
“As Barack Obama contends for a second term in office, two conflicting narratives...”
– Obama, Explained
“But, the archive of the personal is no different from the physical archive —...”
– Digital Archives of the Personal
Real Men and Pink Suits →
The truest measure of a man, indeed of a person, is not whom he lies down with but what he stands up for. If we must be judged, let it be in this way. And when we fall short, as we sometimes will, because humanity is fallible, let us greet each other with compassion and encouragement rather than ridicule and resentment.
“If we, indeed, tell ourselves stories to live, the children of immigrants find...”
– Jay Caspian King, “Jeremy and Jin”
WatchNYE 2011 (by Dacurious)
“Robots are replacing humans on the battlefield—but could they also be used...”
– Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA
“You mentioned in a comment on Marxy’s blog about how despite Japan being a...”
– The Rumpus Interview With Momus
“After a while, it struck me that most French descriptions of American kids...”
– Why French Parents Are Superior
Bill Simmons interviews Larry Bird →
“People approaching 30 — many of them dealing with life changes like marriage and...”
– How to End a Friendship
Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of... →
The premise of The Queer Art of Failure is that at this moment, intense capitalist accumulation, we’re living with one model of success and failure and one model alone. And that model is, that to make money and to advance professionally is what it means to be successful, and everything else is failure. That’s given us a zero-sum model against which we can judge our achievements in life, and...
20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone... →
“In these pages, we’ll try to decode the new economy of fame, top to bottom—the...”
– The Celebrity Economy (with numbers)
“Nothing even remotely resembling party discipline on the issue of abortion can...”
– The Politics of Planned Parenthood and Women’s Rights
“Even more than critical thinking or time management, what the white-collar...”
– Leveling the field: What I learned from for-profit education (2011)
“It’s still a book about aging superheroes choking on their own curdled dreams, a...”
– Great Moments in Nerd Trolling: the Watchmen Prequels
“[Bill] Simmons’s genius lies not so much in turning his lack of access as an...”
– Late Patriot Football
“To be a young woman in our culture means that you exist, from an alarmingly...”
– Alice Bradley - Blog - On being an object, and then not being an object
Good lord, this whole post.
“Asian candidates, meanwhile, are suspiciously stoic if they don’t express...”
– Female Candidates and the Emotion Double bind
“I have never once had a white kid customer avoid a book with a kid of color on...”
– Selling Color to Customers: A Bookseller’s Guide 