All about media criticism today.
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
Red
One of my writing consultants told me that red wine fit my personality. I took that to mean: treat wine as a food group for the entire winter.
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
Octavia Butler and Diversity in Sci-Fi | Tokyo Jupiter
A cool discussion of my girl Octavia and the exclusion of women and authors of color in speculative fiction. Political science fiction is real and important, and sci-fi nerds need to join forces with social justice ideologies and actively advocate for non-white, non-male authors and narratives. Afrofuturism, y'all. Octavia Butler and the Question of Diversity… Continue reading Octavia Butler and Diversity in Sci-Fi | Tokyo Jupiter
“50 Books” – Flavorwire
50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature – Flavorwire. Another interesting list from Flavorwire on literature. This one includes my writer-crush Kate Zambreno's Heroines and Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be? (which I obsessively gobbled up in two days, but everyone in the universe still loves to hate), so I forgive some of their… Continue reading “50 Books” – Flavorwire
IRAs
Not the Irish Republican Army, but an Individual Retirement Account. Any tips on finding an IRA management agency that is not an ALEC member? And doesn't profit from illegal prison labor? And is accessible from more than one state?
50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers
Some goodies! I love difficult literature.
Proust
Me: This is how I've been for days. Just holed up in my apartment watching The L Word and drinking tea. Reminding myself to not overexert or I get exhausted and feverish.Donta: OK Proust.
Jesse Rice-Evans 