Images from Graduate Student Union Campaigns (Part 1)
What’s a movement without a few buttons and bullhorns?
#UsToo: How Unions Could Fight Harassment in STEM
Calls for more data and institutional leadership can only do so much: we must also change who holds power in our universities and who is subject to that power.
Organizing Graduate Workers Beyond Trump’s NLRB
On the Student/Worker Distinction
Uncovering the Popular Midwestern Gothic
The American Midwest in idea and in fact is girded.
The general proximity of Alex Israel’s SPF-18
The Bridge, The Pyramid and The Spire
Parable as architecture; construction as crime
There is a direct link between listening and life, perceivable in its absence. What we cannot say and what we cannot hear matter.
Graffiti In The Woods: Searching For Definitions of Jewish Space
We were holding our seder in a Jerusalem that was very much part of chol, though also part of the holy—we were at the table, in my apartment, in the city of Jerusalem, it felt different than when we do the same thing in Cleveland. Yet, we still long each year, for the transcendent Jerusalem.
Turning Back: On Cristina Rivera Garza’s THE ILIAC CREST
Garza’s boldest choice in the novel was to make her narrator the patriarchy. That is, his behavior is marked by secrecy, without intuition, his actions with women defined by received knowledge.