A guided reading list on feminism, fandom, and fidelity for Buffy enthusiasts.
Catherine Cusick
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Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them.
A former Google design ethicist insists that our minds have been hijacked in an arms race for our attention. He also insists that, with the help of a Hippocratic Oath for software designers, we can win.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Can Apple End Smartphone Addiction?
Technology platforms rely on hijacking our attention. Can Apple help us win it back?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
New York City’s Housing Emergency
New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis.
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Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis
Despite having the most progressive housing laws in the country, New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian emergency: a large-scale “displacement of populations” from their homes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Seeing and Being Seen in Shakespeare
Nicole Chung takes her daughter to see The Winter’s Tale brought to life by Asian American artists, with characters who look just like her.
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Magic Can Be Normal
In an effort to help her eight-year-old daughter see herself — an Asian American girl — in popular culture, Nicole Chung takes her to see Desdemona Chiang’s race-conscious production of The Winter’s Tale at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Tennessee Williams’ Catastrophe of Success
Fame turned the playwright into a “public Somebody” overnight — a crisis that landed him in the hospital.
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The Catastrophe of Success
“Security is a kind of death, I think, and it can come to you in a storm of royalty checks beside a kidney-shaped pool in Beverly Hills or anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist, if that’s what you are or were intended to be.”