Note: In the interest of full disclosure, Puar cites a short article that I wrote in 2014 for Bitch Magazine on inspiration porn and “what’s your excuse” workout memes. I was not aware of this...
There is a current glut of opinion columns, essays, and speculative pieces that all suggest that millennials—generally defined as young people born between 1980 and the late 1990s, although...
The phrase “cool” and the idea of “coolness” may seem very 20th century to many people—those in my (millennial) generation included—but the expectation that people in certain age groups,...
If you keep up with celebrity gossip or entertainment news, you’ve seen her: the “promising,” talented ingénue who just can’t stay away from drugs or alcohol, who “parties too much,”...
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,”...
Last year, the future arrived. At least, the future as predicted by Back to the Future Part II. And for the most part, it was pretty accurate. We now have video messaging, high quality pocket-sized...
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...
The shortlist for the 2016 Stella Prize was announced on 10 March, with the winner due to be named on next week. As has been the trend (if that word applies to a prize with such a short lifespan to...
