from Indigenous directors discuss the “savages” in the Coens’ latest western
What’s hard is these stories take up the majority of the space. They get on the most screens. They’re the ones we’re most familiar with. So we don’t watch and think,...
8 December 2018
from Reevaluating the ‘Romantic’ hit songs of pop music’s patriarchy
I felt vaguely as if someone had just removed all my skin with a potato peeler Emma Silvers
24 November 2018
A Eulogy for a Cow
Many of them, it turns out, were not more than 5 or 6 years old, though their bodies looked ancient.
11 November 2018
Powsels and Thrums
Story does not instruct. It shows an open palm, not a pointing finger. Alan Garner – Powsels and Thrums : The Loom of Creation lecture published in The New Statesman, April...
9 October 2018
All the Rage
Most great activists—from Ida B. Wells to Dolores Huerta to Harvey Milk to Bill McKibben—are motivated by love, first of all. If they are angry, they are angry at what harms...
29 September 2018
In good faith
I’m wary of that narrative: “Look at this genius who made this show.” Wrapped around that is something that has been discussed a lot recently, which is the confusion of genius...
23 September 2018
Everything you know about obesity is wrong
“We all have to do our best with the body that we have,” she says. “And leave everyone else’s alone.” Hobbes, Michael – Everything you know about obesity is wrong, Huffington...
20 September 2018
Everything you know about obesity is wrong
individuals are not averages Hobbes, Michael – Everything you know about obesity is wrong, Huffington Post
20 September 2018
The fallacy of obliviousness
there is no neutral observation. The world doesn’t tell us what is relevant. Instead, it responds to questions – The fallacy of obviousness by Teppo Felin Published by Aeon on: 5th...
8 July 2018
Geraldine DeRuiter
I thought my bully deserved an awful life. But then he had one. I never thought I could feel empathy for the boy who tormented me in childhood. By Geraldine DeRuiter...
24 February 2018