The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Still Feeds on Insecurity
The manic pixie dream girl trope simply puts down girls who don’t fit the blueprint. Manic pixie dream girls — or rather, the men who write them — feed off…
Netflix’s City of Ghosts Maps a Better Way to See LA—and Everywhere Else
Ito’s delivery mechanism for all that is a hybrid. The show’s characters are finely designed 3D ’toons, but the backdrops and settings aren’t. They’re photographs by the LA photographer Kwasi…
They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror
The Real-Life Inspiration Behind Candyman
Michigan: a tale of US neglect
From roads to railways to water supply, one state’s decaying infrastructure reflects the scale of Biden’s task to rebuild {read}
Michigan ranks second in COVID variant cases as state hits ‘tipping point’
Most of the Grand Ledge cases (29 of 47) involve middle and high school students, coaches and additional students and staff exposed at a series of basketball games Feb. 18,…
COVID Tracker | COVID cases fall for first time since July; hospitalizations rise
Some of the higher rates of new infections are among those 10 to 19 years old, and state officials said there are many outbreaks tied to youth sports. In the…
Audre Lorde Thought of Self-Care as an “Act of Political Warfare”
Several prominent thinkers have pointed out how activism, race, and self-care are connected. In 2014, I saw the legendary social justice activist Angela Davis speak. She ended her talk with…
The Combahee River Collective and Intersectionality in the Age of Identity
Having identified intersecting systems of oppression, the Collective argued that overlapping solutions were needed. The 1980 statement is the first recorded use of ‘identity politics’ and they did indeed root…
Carmageddon? DC’s leaders can choose a different road.
A panoply of studies show that people using bikes, transit or walking to reach business destinations generate more business when they get there. Furthermore, for businesses to come back they…
NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money
This bubble will burst; it’s just a matter of when