October 15, 2018
—Amber Jamilla Musser
On Simone Leigh’s exhibit at Luhring Augustine and brown jouissance that brings together violence and possibility in the same frame in order to reclaim and remake selfhood.
October 12, 2018
—Ralina L. Joseph
A black woman icon such as Serena Williams has to bear the disproportionate burden of not only being the target of racist attacks, but also of being above responding to them, maintaining a pose of “strategic ambiguity.”
October 1, 2018
—Christina Crosby
The intersection of disability and work is complex, as the work of care necessary to prepare a disabled person to go out into the world is done behind closed doors, often by workers whose labor is often undocumented, unseen, and undervalued.
September 25, 2018
—Laura E. Gómez
Details on the truths and lies of the Brett Kavanaugh US Supreme Court Nomination hearings and other events haunting Kavanaugh’s nomination
September 24, 2018
— Bernadette C. Barton
Barton discusses Stormy Daniels as a prime example of how working in the sex industry empowers women, even in when up against a bully like Donald Trump. Daniels’ background may prove a benefit rather than a burden in her attack of Trump to show the American public the truth about their president.
September 21, 2018
—Ted Merwin
Travel with Ted Merwin through the history of Yom Kippur into the current practice of the holiday and how Yom Kippur has been referenced in today’s pop culture.
September 20, 2018
—Stephen Gottlieb
With recent developments in the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearing confirmation and rape allegations, author Stephen Gottlieb comments on the abuses of power on display
September 10, 2018
—Daniel Katz
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Janus v. AFSCME this year is an attack on American working and poor people. A history of American labor movements bring us hope that this is just a scrimmage and unions and working people will win the war.