Happy Leap Day from Global Comment! Your US-based Editor in Chief is gearing up for Super Tuesday and critical primaries in the morning, but before tucking into bed, how about some lovely reading to...
Here's what we consider our must-reads for the week from great readers, writers, and thinkers all over the world. Think we missed something? Let us know in the comments. 'The Secret Lives of Tumblr...
Have you ever wondered what the Avengers would look like if their costumes were by supercute Sanrio brand Hello Kitty? Well, wonder no more as the internet turns the superheroes into something more...
Here's something to brighten your Sunday - a tumblr of animals sitting on the large South American rodent the capybara. The internet needs no reason for this, it simply is. You can find it here.
Women Against Feminism is a tumblr that's gathered a lot of attention lately, with young women posting selfies with messages about why they don't need feminism. This being the internet, a response...
Annamarie Jagose, Orgasmology, Duke UP, 2013. Does orgasm have a history? Queer theorist Annamarie Jagose’s new book attempts to answer this question with a carefully researched journey through the...
Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. Columbia UP, 2013 Having made her name in the early 90s with Gender Trouble, a densely-written look at the ways in which gender is...
I admit it, I was skeptical when I first the buzz about the new My Little Pony show. I like a My Little Pony as much as the next fully grown woman--usually if it’s been modded to look like Star...
Apparently the 80s are back in vogue, again. With a Tory government sitting in Parliament--or rather, holidaying in Tuscany as David Cameron was--rioting is again occurring on the streets of London....
In the week since the death of English singer Amy Winehouse much newsprint, or the virtual equivalent, has been spent on her struggles with substance abuse. The analysis of her music, such as it is,...
