It’s the start of a new semester and, as usual, I’m snowed under already. So, let me send you elsewhere, for some fun snow-day reading. Words Without Borders is a high-caliber online journal of translated writing. Every issue is worth browsing, with the only problem being not enough time to keep up with all of [...]
I recently read a remarkable book about local legacies of lynching. Please visit the new Political Media Review to read my review. PMR is a project of the Transformative Studies Institute; the purpose of the project is to provide an independent clearinghouse of reviews of social justice media. There are only a couple of reviews [...]
Scientists are terrorists. That’s the word from Feedstuffs, the leading weekly trade paper for U.S. agribusiness. Responding to a UN Food and Agriculture Organization report on Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks, Feedstuffs published an editorial stating that “FAO claims to use scientists to generate its reports, but I wonder if those scientists don’t [...]
I’ve posted a few new (or, rather, old) texts, one of which I seem to have forgotten to publish back when I wrote it, on my archive. From the sadly defunct Impact Press, I’ve posted my 2005 book reviews of The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader and Normon Solomon’s War Made Easy. De Cleyre [...]
The deadline for proposals for the Coming Out for Animals: Queering Animal Liberation anthology is fast approaching and, while we’re prepared to be flexible, we really would like to hear from you if you think you might like to write something for us. We’ve gotten a lot of proposals in already but we know that [...]
Coming back to the subject of texts that work themselves into who you are, I recently had occasion to reread a couple of classic texts in anarcha-feminism and found myself staring, slack-jawed, at neatly underlined pages filled with ideas that are so much a part of me I’d swear they were my own if the [...]
Whenever I’m in an independent bookstore, I always make sure to buy something. So, while I was at Arise! bookstore in Minneapolis, I picked up a copy of Evasion (CrimetInc), which I’d been wanting to read anyway and because I always like reading travelogues while traveling.
In the course of that travelogue of train hopping, dumpster [...]
