After twelve years of daily updates, I’m taking a break. Here’s why, and how to find me elsewhere.
Rest/Stop
An unaddressed epidemic of workplace gun violence
Outrage over gun violence often skims over the fact that women are at high risk of being shot at work.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Yes, there are environmentalists here
Contrary to popular belief, some rural Americans are extremely invested in environmental protection and conserving resources for future generaitons.
No more ‘product of its time,’ please
Content with terrible themes is often defended as a ‘product of its time,’ but this argument holds no water with me.
Do we really need to see graphic violence to ‘understand’?
Creators sometimes justify graphic, troubling scenes with the claim that we need to see to ‘understand.’ Well, do we?
West Oakland, gentrification, and environmental racism
West Oakland is a hot new spot for techies looking for a cheap neighbourhood, but it’s also a hotbed of environmental racism.
Places other than New York exist, and people do things in them
New York elitism is a very ugly look. Ditch it, just in time for summer!
Don’t be fooled by charities giving corporations the rubber stamp
Groups like the HRC use diversity ratings to raise their profile, but they’re not worth the paper they’re printed on.
Pop v. reality: Journalism
I’ve been having a lot of conversations in the last year about the public distrust and sometimes active hatred of the media — at the same time that the New York Times is raking in subscription dollars and every media outlet has an annoying popup nagging me to defend the future of journalism, I keep getting sidelong […]
The slow demonisation of Islam won’t make us safer
The United States is creating more national security threats than it solves with its Islamophobic policy decisions.