Category: culture

  • Teach Me How To Ally: Sexual Harassment

    Dear You: I saw you or one of your friends last month, last week, or yesterday. Maybe even an hour ago. Either you or they mentioned to me that you’ve been on the receiving end of some much unwanted sexual advances from someone else that we know or work with. No worries, I’m here to…

  • Jokes

    I had to stop laughing long enough to understand other people’s tears for a time. I can still laugh. I can still make someone laugh. Somehow, all of this, while being mindful of what the cost of that joke is. 

  • A Relatable Character

    A Relatable Character

    While we condemn Magneto’s more extreme actions, we do one thing for him: we try to understand his plight and relate.

  • Identity Politics

    Identity Politics

    I cannot fathom being so far removed from my actions that I could believe who I am as a person is in any way detached from my political choices or that it should be. Yet here I am, on social media, reading people decrying the the evils and dangers of identity politics. Where did we…

  • Thoughts On Evil

    before you try to make oppression or misogyny or racism or so many other things an academic pursuit, please let these two words be your mantra: just don’t.