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All Hail the Queen?

What do our perceptions of Beyonce's feminism say about us? Illustration by Irana Douer. Who run the world? If entertainment domination is the litmus test, then all hail Queen Bey. Beyoncé. She…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2956 words)

Can Atheists and Religious Folks Fight Inequality as Allies?

How does a queer atheist go from kicking in church signs to working side by side with Christians, Muslims, and other religious people? Ask Chris Stedman, a humanist chaplain at Harvard and interfaith…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1019 words)

Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters

This essay has been drawn from the February/March issue of the American Reader, available here. In the November 2012 GQ I wrote an essay detailing some of my experiences as a teenage hitchhiker. The…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4045 words)

Education is Ignorance, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Class Warfare)

DAVID BARSAMIAN: One of the heroes of the current right-wing revival... is Adam Smith. You've done some pretty impressive research on Smith that has excavated... a lot of information that's not…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3184 words)

Pussy Riot: will Vladimir Putin regret taking on Russia's cool women punks?

For two very full, very long days in Moscow, I have talked constantly to people about Pussy Riot. About how, back in February, three young women from a feminist punk-rock band sang a song in Moscow's…
PUBLISHED: July 29, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4225 words)

The White Savior Industrial Complex

If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.Left, Invisible Children's Jason Russell. Right, a protest leader in Lagos, Nigeria / Facebook,…
AUTHOR:Teju Cole
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1292 words)
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