Anne Sexton’s Sensual Love Poem “Song for a Lady,” in an Animation Inspired by Oliver Sacks
“So many doors open when you are present with an angle.”
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde review – prophetic and necessary
The black lesbian feminist writer and poet, who died 25 years ago, is better known than ever, her words often quoted in books and on social media
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017
I would not call the world of Blade Runner strange, because it’s the opposite of strange. It’s familiar. If you subtract the flying cars and the jets of flame shooting…
Grandma Turned Me into a Ghost
Who were the very first people who helped solidify your identity? The people who really influenced the way you see yourself and how you interact with the world? For most of us,…
Christianity and the classical world
Classicist and journalist Catherine Nixey talks about her new book The Darkening Age with Professor Edith Hall. Their discussion explores the momentous changes that occurred when Christianity became the dominant…
I Saw “Mother!” So You Don’t Have To
Mother! is what happens when a dude has an idea he thinks is brilliant and no one checks him on it.
Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
Though the POUM were socialists, he wrote “as far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists."His vivid descriptions of classless anarchist Barcelona following…
Noam Chomsky on the terror state that is the united states
the terror states of the west
Owned by Noam Chomsky 1/2
Noam Chomsky doing what he does best
Hugh Hefner: Misogyny, Sexual Exploitation and White Male Liberalism
So this fantasyland of “free love” was really about emotional manipulation of women who were financially and emotionally vulnerable. And so it begins. Hugh Hefner, the Playboy King is dead,…