Note on Race at Eugene Lang College, The New School Meetings
The following set of reflections and notes are from two recent meetings held at The New School as part of a grant from the Mellon Foundation that Lang faculty received to look at...
Making Monsters – A Genealogy of Elliot Rodger and His Twisted World
(Trigger Warning!!! more| Updated) Before I begin, let me frame this piece briefly. I wrote this after spending the Memorial Day weekend trying to unravel the story of Elliot Rodger–his past, his actions,...
The Roots of Our Food
So this post began as a dinner experiment. Looking through my refrigerator, I decided I wanted to make a meal centered around root vegetables, since I had a variety sitting around–Idaho and Asian...
Lost in the Archives – Sexual Assault and Activism
So I have been doing some digital housekeeping and came across this pamphlet on activism and sex politics and thought I would share. Here is a short excerpt, with a link to the...
Dirty Secrets and Wicked Problems
My latest column in the New School Free Press came out this week. You can read the whole piece right here. I’m posting a teaser below as an update. It’s generally considered taboo...
Noah – The First Environmentalist
[Spoiler Alert**] While watching the new Noah movie by Darren Aronofsky, I couldn’t help but notice some strong eco-animist undertones, which struck me as quite odd given the centrality of this story for...
