A Hater’s Guide to New York
I’m not saying don’t go, I’m just suggesting that the actual city is basically a middling Woody Allen impression.
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Posts Tagged 'E.L.'
Alien Others and Selves
Starting off the new year with some good old-fashioned American paranoia!
Leaving Something Behind: Reading Socially Through Book Traces
E.L. documents her journey through the margins of one library’s books—thinking about reading as a social process, about building community, and about what we can learn from the scribbles left behind.
Acro Collective Bookshelf : November
Editor’s Note: Hey friends! I’m pleased to bring you our new feature, Bookshelf. Each month we’ll hear from Acro Collective…
What We Mean When We Talk About Choice
…my point is that there is no easy choice between choice and social determination — that choice itself is not the solution to the oppressive pressures of racism and patriarchy because the choices we have (and the fact of choice at all) are constructed by the very systems we wish to use them to undermine.
Which Addams Family Misandrist Are You…?? (A Quiz)
Image via Sony Movie Channel With the scent of pumpkin spice and school supplies in the air once more, I…
Artists and their Muses: “Mistress America” review
Mistress America is about many things. It is a screwball comedy refracted through the Woody Allen hall of mirrors. It…
Must-Read: Friendship Stories
Post may contain slight spoilers. Since tittering with Acro coven-mate K.S. at the beefcake and bromance of Magic Mike XXL last…
Trigger Warnings: A Discussion
Just in time for back-to-school, three writers at ACRO who are involved in high school or college instruction unpack the rhetoric of the “trigger warning”.
Trigger warnings began as a way to tag texts that may provoke a reader’s PTSD, but they have become widely used in tagging texts that contain content that ranges from offensive to traumatic. What began in social justice forums in the blog-sphere has made its way into discourse about the academy at large, leading to a call for the re-examination of the pedagogical value of certain canonical texts, the role of the professor and student in a shifting higher-education system, and the ethics of certain kinds of representation.
How to Slowly Transform Yourself into Patti Smith
Do #wcw one better—as E.L. puts it, this is “A handy step-by-step guide for your metamorphosis into one bad bitch idol.”
