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Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
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By the early 2000s, the intersectional shift in feminism had become undeniable. Previous feminist scholarship and activism treated women as a class and sought to create positive change for that class. As the influence of applied postmodernism crept into feminism, however, the focus switched from material disadvantages within social structures like
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
The hijacking of the #myNYPD hashtag
Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
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In Walter’s home, there is a box with a letter that Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to Toussaint L’Ouverture. And in another, letters Romare Bearden wrote to a lover. There’s a first edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, which is perhaps the most significant slave narrative written by a woman. His version was the pseudonymou
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Nicholas Bourriaud, Jessica Morgan, Claire Bishop and Shannon Jackson.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
The eruption of these issues into the realm of art via the uncritical valorization of care no doubt contributed to my “yuck,” insofar as it risks suggesting that art—a realm to which women have been allowed entrance basically one second ago in human history—should become yet another place where women must grapple with an already-feminized, maternal
... See moreMaggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
