How London’s Rarest Crafts Are Still Made Today
In this episode of Made In, we explore four of London’s rare crafts: globe making, millinery, whip making, and woodwork. Follow Peter Bellerby of Bellerby and Co. Globemakers, master whip…
What’s So Bad About Being a Monster?
What I liked about monsters was never that they taught me to love my body. If anything, that would have reproduced the same representational problem in a slightly more gothic…
Working Class History: Literature of the 1926 General Strike
Discussion episode looking at the literary texts that were produced in response to the 1926 general strike, both from established authors of the middle/upper classes and emerging working-class writers. In…
Winter Afternoon
Hear from Charles, one of the security guards, about how George Wesley Bellows’ “Winter Afternoon” is one of his favorite works of art at the Norton Museum.
Karl Marx on Clowns
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The AfD party in Germany
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“Just Send us Pictures of Your feet”: Consent and Biometric Extraction in the AI Supply Chain
My name is James Oyange, though many of my comrades in the tech space know me as Mojez. For years, I’ve worked in the “invisible” levels of the online space…
Five Things Fan Fic
Five Things... is a fanfiction writing form or structure that originated in Smallville fandom in 2001 with the fic Five Things That Aren't True by Basingstoke. The format requires a…
The Five Things Essay
An all-purpose writing prompt to help you find your voice, lose your voice, beat writer's block, or figure out what the hell you want to write about in the first…
Monty Dons American Southern Gardens
America’s southern gardens are beautiful, ambitious, and inseparable from the complex history that shaped them. Monty Don travels from Washington DC and Jefferson’s Monticello to Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring, Charleston’s…