readings

here are a variety of links to interesting/thought-provoking readings, divided by subject.

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artificial intelligence

ai got the blame for the iran school bombing. the truth is far more worrying

born in the wrong generation

choosing to walk

the death of an ai whistleblower

i'm kenyan. i don't write like chatgpt. chatgpt writes like me.

class

on who gets to be a queer african

rich kid memes & the online culture of the 1 percent

colonialism and imperialism

'colonialism had never really ended'

grenada revisited: an interim report

india is a postcolonial power. its rule in kashmir is colonial

not all empires look the same

settler colonialism is not distinctly western or european

culture

communication through consumption

the 'disney adult' industrial complex

no good alone

craft of writing

notes on craft: writing in the hour of genocide

writing from the ashes: on the burning haibun

disability

there is no disability justice without a free palestine

what does disability justice mean in gaza?

you have not gone 'nonverbal.'

education

the campus does not exist

the dismantling of black studies

the honest case for the humanities

reaching young black men through sense of belonging

what anti-accommodation rhetoric misses

the question haunting that humanities report

gender and sexuality

a 'gender critical' and 'terf' primer

larry summers' sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women

the gender accelerationist manifesto

not all girls are expected to be feminine

not all women

privilege politics and the policing of trans women

sexism: an american disease in blackface

the third sex

trans people and sports: everything you need to know

what you cannot see on a map

geopolitics

a tortured and deadly legacy: kissinger and realpolitik in u.s. foreign policy

haiti and the failed promise of u.s. aid

powell and picasso: who did guernica?

sinophobic sinophilia

history

the idea of precolonial africa is vacuous and wrong

the 'miscegenation' troll

journalism

how the ap stylebook warps reality to serve power

leaked nyt gaza memo tells journalists to avoid words 'genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' and 'occupied territory'

the lonely crusade against caste

the security playbook every journalist should know

we analyzed thousands of news articles: here's the proof of pro-israel bias in mainstream media

will jacobin ever stop publishing class revisionist drivel?!

the worst magazine in america

literature

all american fiction is race fiction

blunt force ethnic credibility

the end of palestine in english

how to read postcolonial writing

leave ocean vuong alone, fuck!

the oracular outsiders and the homework doers

poetry is not a luxury

reading sylvia plath doesn't make you radical babes.

to make revolution irresistible

when my authentic is your exotic

who did r.f. kuang write babel for?

neurodiversity

autism, disability, and the question of power

policing and prisons

the american prison system's war on reading

psychiatry

the buzzfeedification of mental health

medicalizing society

race

abolish wasia

aces are white, aros are green, but spades are black

on the backs of blacks

who is an arab?

science studies

how eugenics shaped statistics

u.s. politics and political organizing

the adl would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous

the divided landscape of indian american politics

for betar or for worse

how the stop asian hate movement became entwined with zionism, policing, and counterinsurgency

psl is a high-control group with an ineffective strategy

what graham platner reveals about the u.s. left