Reid and Leah have left Seattle, as have the hordes of writers from all over. I could act like it was thrilling to see folks from NC--and it was--but I've ensured that I am never without access to liberal Southerners, even here in WA state. AWP was much sillier than I anticipated; the longer I… Continue reading Post
Category: Politics
Andrew Jackson should be kicked off the $20 bill: He ordered a genocide.
In case you hadn't already gotten indignant about the American Myth today: Andrew Jackson should be kicked off the $20 bill: He ordered a genocide..
Chauvinist
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy My rating: 3 of 5 stars While Levy's writing style is fluid and readable, many of her points are highly contradictory or subjective to the point of irrelevance. For instance, she demonizes her liberal arts literature education because she was taught to… Continue reading Chauvinist
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013 | Autostraddle
Adding these to my to-read queue. Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013 | Autostraddle.
The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville
Political science fiction! The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville.
Nebraska
Nebraska gets a lot of shit. It is pretty weird. Everyone has guns and eats a lot of feedlot beef. Not to mention the incredible volume of corn. Oh my lord the corn. (Nebraska's college football team mascot is literally a white guy in a flannel shirt and cowboy hat: a Cornhusker). Omaha is pretty… Continue reading Nebraska
This Chart Blows Up the Myth of the Welfare Queen – Jordan Weissmann – The Atlantic
In case y'all were still confused: This Chart Blows Up the Myth of the Welfare Queen - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic.
Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination | Olivia Cole
Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination | Olivia Cole. Smart piece on media representations of white and non-white people. Considering our role as authors (makers of media), Suzanne Collins's interest in racial ambiguity of her characters (including Katniss) forces us all to think about typecasting and the racial overtones of our work, especially… Continue reading Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination | Olivia Cole
The School-to-Prison Pipeline – EBONY
Nice to see coverage of this in any mainstream magazine. Interesting allusion to high-school buddy comedies from the 1990s and the slow (but steady) employment of police officers in public schools. This all speaks to the criminalization of anti-authoritarian behavior, not to mention media depictions of non-white youth and the influence of stereotypes in institutional… Continue reading The School-to-Prison Pipeline – EBONY
Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker
Another response to the policing of humanities: The irony of neo-conservatives challenging institutions is that they fetishize many other kinds of institutions. You know, the kinds that lock people up. Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The [hu]man who never reads lives only… Continue reading Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker
Jesse Rice-Evans 