Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe has covered a myriad of topics in her work, ranging from “trickle-down feminism” to tenants’ rights to popular culture—and her first book, Necessary Trouble,...
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the “overstatement of...
The term “biopolitics” was first ushered into wide use in a variety of academic fields of inquiry by French theorist Michel Foucault during his lecture series “Society Must Be Defended,”...
The third season of Netflix’s acclaimed animated series BoJack Horseman was made available for streaming last week. This dark comedy series follows the adventures of a washed-up alcoholic actor...
The so-called “prescription pill epidemic” has been making headlines in the U.S. for years—and much to the consternation of chronic pain patients and their advocates, few media outlets or...
From a Buzzfeed post on empowering pins to a blog post from Ms. Magazine that highlights ten recent “feminist ads,” feminism has started to trickle into marketing, mass culture, and mainstream...
Alternative comedian Maria Bamford’s stand-up has never shied away from her experiences with mental illness, nor from her off-the-wall musings on social mores and human behavior, but after her...
The shocking and untimely death of musical icon Prince earlier this year saddened millions of fans and fellow musicians around the world—but the news media, particularly in the U.S., seemingly...
Climate change, drone bombings, the President, violent masculinity, humans vs. the Earth, cannibalism as a metaphor—these are not topics that make up the average alternative pop album. Then again,...
Highly successful and bestselling recording artist, guitarist, and gender-bending fashion icon Prince died yesterday at his Paisley Park recording studio complex, in his hometown of Chanhassen,...
