Month: November 2019
The Deception of The Bird Revelation
Chappelle's casual and conversational performance style in this special has a very specific function: It gets the audience on his side.
Who Would Record Our Family History?
Zhajiangmian is a dish that is at the core of Beijing culture and of three generations of women in my family.
Weaponized Infrastructures
The Palestinian water crisis is not an unfortunate natural deficit—it is a deliberate program designed by the Israeli colonial regime to deprive people of a vital resource.
Three Poems
"People have never seemed so precious. / Like the earth from outer space, / beautiful and beyond me."
Zlata’s Orb
There was once a young woman named Zlata hailing from a far away land. A land that was neither real nor unreal. This land of origin was a blissful safe haven, and was all that she knew—she knew nothing of …
On Being Edible
I believe that catcalling serves the double function of allowing the collective chauvinist culture to flex its muscles in the streets in order to keep women in a state of submission, and of allowing individual men to boost their egos by engaging in an activity that gives them a feeling of power.
