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Essays
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Law, Written in Spray Paint
“Paying attention to the temporary markings etched onto the asphalt, we are afforded a glimpse into the otherwise hidden world that lies below the city’s surface.”
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This Is Not a Choice—It Is a Charge: How HBCUs Must Embrace Black Radical Love & Empower Queer and Trans* Students
This essay calls in HBCUs to recommit to Black queer and trans* inclusion.
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To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System
Open admissions to all state-funded public universities could break the competitive concentration of prestige, increase affordability, and restore Americans’ faith in higher education.
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To Save Higher Ed, Seek Our Black and Hispanic Men
Policymakers and institutional leaders seeking to preserve higher education’s functionality should consider the enrollment and completion rates of Black and Hispanic men.
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Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat
University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.
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Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed
The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.
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Young Almodóvar Versus Old Almodóvar in the World Series of Love
“In recent years, Almodóvar’s films have become more serious, moving away from the campy melodrama and drugged gazpacho we knew and loved him for, toward a mature reckoning with the bigger questions of existence.”
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How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
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The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict
Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college classroom, while the Florida state government took over a public college and abolished its gender studies program. At the federal level, words including “gender” and “women” are…
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“No Future” Lexicon: Punk
To recognize, individually and collectively, that things are unfair, a mess, corrupted, defective does not denote an end only.
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“No Future” Lexicon: Darkness
Darkness often appears as a solely obscure and secondary trait of modernity; but, in truth, darkness impregnates and bolsters so densely modernity’s creative powers.
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“No Future” Lexicon: The Post-Post-Apocalyptic
But what lies beyond the end of the world? Casting off the trappings accreted by the post-apocalyptic genre emerge stories of the post-post-apocalyptic.
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“No Future”: A Lexicon
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?
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Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please!
Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
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In the Führerbunker with Carlyle and Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin—and, through him, arguably, Thomas Carlyle—has now emerged as a significant source of ideas for the present administration.
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Time Interpolated
Disruptive and restorative, interpolation is the paradoxical form of life, literature, and time itself.
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Making Migrant Spaces: 34th Avenue, Queens
Thirty-Fourth Avenue is a reminder that displacement from one location, perhaps at a far remove, can instantiate emplacement elsewhere.
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“Lying in Politics”: Hannah Arendt’s Antidote to Anticipatory Despair
Four months in, the new Trump administration is already moving from self-deception and deception on to “image making” and “ideologizing”; it is fast approaching complete “defactualization.”
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Triumph of the Undead: The Public Domain as Horror Hero
Both “Nosferatu” and “Night of the Living Dead” provide key examples of how vital the public domain is for horror.
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It’s About Time We Fail: A Puerto Rican Poetics of Exhaustion
The term “resilience” originated in ecology. But its shift from the natural to the social has normalized human-made structures of inequality.
