stillness is a lie, my dear
As Quantico started its slow rise into the US consciousness — an interesting take on the traditional procedural, presented in an intriguing way — I started reading a great deal of commentary about the show, and I particularly enjoyed Anu Bhagwati writing at the New Republic about Priyanka Chopra’s role on the show. Bhagwati noted that Chopra is a […]
I was reading the American Journalism Review recently, as one does, when I encountered a piece about media coverage of shootings, and how media depiction of violence in the United States shapes social attitudes. One reason I enjoy reading the AJR is because of its honest and unflinching assessments of the state of modern journalism and the […]
The progressive community claims to care passionately about issues of class and environment, and the intersections between. These issues are an important part of social justice movements, as they are intertwined with so much in our way of lives and how we interact with the world. One of the many areas in which they collide […]
It’s a joke that people toss off without much thought when you tell them you have a degree in some area of liberal arts that people deem ‘worthless,’ typically because it’s difficult to find work in that area (especially in the given economy). People with English degrees, for example, especially if they’ve been silly enough […]
Western culture has a way of extending itself over the rest of the world in a constant reminder that colonialism is never truly dead. Our attitudes and practices spread to other regions, and may even become fashionable, desirable, or prized as signs of cultural or political sophistication. Thus it is that imperialism in pop culture, […]
When Michelle Obama announced that part of the White House lawn was going to be devoted to food production, a lot of things came up. First, of course, were the racist watermelon jokes, but then there were the discussions about how production gardens are ugly, and how the White House has beautiful historic ornamental gardens […]
Race and class are very much tied up with environmental issues in the United States, particularly when these two things appear together. Low income communities of colour are much more likely to have pollution and other environmental problems thrust upon them, and are much more likely to have difficulty with environmental cleanup, trouble getting support […]
I spent a long time refusing to identify as a feminist. I repeated the arguments I’d absorbed from the culture around me about what feminism was, a movement gone ‘too far’ led by a crew of hysterical hairy-legged harridans. But I still believed that women didn’t have equality, that we needed to fight for the […]