In this issue, you’ll find stories about trans creatives, LGBTQ+ community spaces, and drag performers; but you’ll also find an investigation and interview about electronic monitoring in policing. (Remember, the first Pride marches celebrated the Stonewall riots, a response to a violent police raid.) I want the colors on the cover of this Pride Issue to inspire people as they move through this month of June and promote true liberation.
Tag: capitalism
Posted inFilm
Astra Taylor talks about wealth, power, and her new documentary What is Democracy?
“The solution can’t be the sort of platonic idea that the masses are so moronic that we have to disempower them.”
Posted inNews & Politics
Eve Ewing still believes in Chicago’s public schools
The new book Ghosts in the Schoolyard explains why people care so much about institutions that the world has deemed “failing.”
Posted inFilm
In A Star Is Born, love hurts, but it’s labor that breaks your heart
Stars may not seem to be working, but they are—and that’s the tragedy of this new film.
Posted inBlogs
A Q&A with filmmaker Jamal Joseph on Chapter & Verse and the prison industrial complex
Joseph’s first feature is a personal and multifaceted look at America’s broken prison system.
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A Trump delegate born in Uzbekistan stands by her man
“When you look at a man of that stature, it makes you feel safe, protected, like he’ll take care of you,” Lora Drobetsky says.
Posted inBlogs
For those about to stream, AC/DC salutes you
You can now stream the band’s music on most music-streaming platforms.
Posted inArts & Culture
Hello Kitty blurs the lines of art and commerce
Hello Kitty as both art and commerce in Christine Yano’s Pink Globalization
Posted inBlogs
The dialectical materialism of the Trapper Keeper
What the ostensibly outdated binders may say about status
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I guess there’s WTF, and then major-grade WTF
Sarah Palin continues to make no sense.
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Internal Affairs: How Ayn Rand Followers Rationalize “Welcomed” Rape
How Ayn Rand’s young followers react to her less-than-consensual sex scenes.
Posted inBlogs
I miss socialism
Businessmen wrote the Burnham Plan, but it wasn’t the work of craven capitalists.
Posted inArts & Culture
So That’s Why Frankenstein Is Green
A cultural theorist says our favorite monster stories are really about the destructive effects of capitalism.