A new report just released by firm Valenti Martin Media called #FemFuture: Online Revolution recently defined Online Feminism as a movement that centers on “ umor, pop culture, fashion, and the...
When one thinks of American torture tactics, images of men subjected to waterboarding in some faraway Middle Eastern country are more likely to spring to mind than that of an inmate quietly biding...
Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate. London: Arrow, 2012. Acclaimed English novelist Jeanette Winterson’s latest book is something of a curiousity. The book has been published by Arrow in...
London 1999. In the shadow of the Millennium Dome, men with faces as rough as Bethnal Green tube station laugh and leer at the camera. These monsters in bow ties are grotesque; their mirth rains like...
On Tuesday morning, Twitter user auntie crissle (@crissles) posed the following question to her followers: ‘Do you think people currently on govt assistance (welfare, food stamps, section 8, TANF,...
Doctor Who came back from a brief hiatus this weekend with a rather unremarkable episode revolving around a plot to steal human minds over wifi networks in order to feed a mysterious client. Its main...
What just happened? First, President Barack Obama landed in Tel Aviv—he stepped onto the tarmac, said “Shalom” and the crowd went wild. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers saluted him and...
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...
March 20, 2003: The date on which former President George W. Bush first deployed troops to Iraq. Exactly 10 years, $1.7 trillion U.S. and a minimum of 190,000 corpses ago today. Ten years ago today,...
There's been a brouhaha on the Internet of late, over the issue of whether freelance writers for magazines, journals, and internet media outlets should be paid for their work. (No one is yet...