News
I think this week I’m going to experiment and have a featured archive post every day rather than one a week. We’ll see how it goes. You have been warned!
On HU
Featured Archive Post:Linsey Bahr on fashion in the Hunger Games and Gattaca.
Walter Benjamin on the internet as socialist utopia.
Our music sharing post: check out what folks have been listening to.
Michael Arthur on racism and funny animals.
Jacob Canfield provides a useful guide so you can figure out if you’re being a censor.
Chris Gavaler explains Joss Whedon’s next project.
I talk to Julia Serano about call out culture and exclusion in feminist and queer communities.
Vom Marlowe on how GoodReads needs to let its readers talk about it when authors are assholes.
People who make art shouldn’t appropriate Hulk!
Utilitarians Everywhere
At the Atlantic I:
—wrote about the documentary The Muslims Are Coming.
—interviewed Julia Serano about the reality of gender and her new book Excluded.
—wrote about segregation and violence in Chicago.
At Splice Today I wrote about:
—Tim Wise, Robert Shaw, white allies and failure.
—how Alexander Hamilton was the Dick Cheney of his day.
Other Links
This is a pretty horrible story about the Chicago police.
Helen Rittelmeyer with a lovely piece about Charles Lamb’s Confessions of a Drunkard.
Brian Cremins on Bill Mauldin’s Back Home.
