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Do School Dress Codes Privilege Boys’ Education?

Spoiler Alert — Yes!

June 11, 2018 • by Jordan Smilan-Goldstein

In April 2018, Lizzy Martinez, a high school junior, was pulled out of class for not wearing a bra to school. Martinez had gotten a sunburn over the weekend, and the placement of the burn made wearing a bra particularly painful and uncomfortable. Because of this, she chose to forgo ...

Do School Dress Codes Privilege Boys’ Education?

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The Christian and the Cosmos

The Puritan’s Grand Tour

June 3, 2018 • by Sara Georgini

Horace Bushnell needed a vacation. On the first day of July 1845, the Hartford, Conn., clergyman boarded the British packet-ship Victoria and set off for a salaried year in Europe. Weary from preaching trips to New York City, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and Ohio, along with the publication of a prolific number of tracts, ...

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Social Construction Theory and the Transgender Turn

An Enlightened Conversation

May 29, 2018 • by Dora Suarez

In the introduction to her groundbreaking book Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective of Sexual Difference, Patricia Gherovici states: “Trans people’s experiences may force us not just to re-evaluate our notions of gender, but also to reconsider how we think about other forms of difference as it unravels identity as a construction.” ...

Social Construction Theory and the Transgender Turn

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Privacy and Surveillance

Who are we in the age of social media and reality television?

May 17, 2018 • by Deandra Irizarry

We currently live in an age of constant surveillance. As users of the Internet, whether or not we consent our information is being shared to companies and businesses for their own benefit. Social media thus has become a form of surveillance in which we share details about our lives and ...

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Apple vs. Facebook

Two Tech Giants at War

May 15, 2018 • by Kelly Lai

Facebook’s unsettled crisis with Cambridge Analytica may become further inflamed as issues of user privacy and debates between two technological giants intensify. Following the recent Facebook scandal regarding the Twitter movement known as #DeleteFacebook, Mark Zuckerberg has received staggering backlash from the public as well as the CEO of Apple Inc., ...

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The Charlottesville Syllabus

Confronting the history and present of white supremacy in a college town

May 2, 2018 • by The Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation

12 AUGUST 2017 The Charlottesville Syllabus is a resource created by the Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation to be used to educate readers about the long history of white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia. While the resources selected and summaries written are by UVA graduate students, the Syllabus is not sanctioned by ...

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Spinoza and Feminism Question the Structures of Domination

Is the mind-body problem a gender problem?

April 30, 2018 • by Eva Perez de Vega

Traditional theory on the mind-body problem has been mostly conceptualized by men. The historical debate found its most heated moment in the seventeenth century between Rene Descartes and Benedict De Spinoza; the first advocating for the superiority of the mind over the body, and the latter with his characteristic Monist ...

Spinoza and Feminism Question the Structures of Domination

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In Between Her Legs

Theorizing feminine space

April 25, 2018 • by Ceilidh Webster

“There is no getting round the fact that each man and woman came out of a woman.” -- D.W. Winnicott, 1964 In her recent book Feminine Law: Freud, Speech and the Voice of Desire, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist Jill Gentile puts forth a call to name the vagina. Through rigorous analysis ...

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Navigating Finance and the Imagination

A walking tour event

April 12, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

On April 14, a temporary assembly of activists, artists and interdisciplinary academics will drift together through the City of London to explore the intersections of finance and the imagination in the historic district of English (and global) wealth and power. With over 15 presentations on topics ranging from algorithms to architecture, ...

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2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy

An announcement

April 12, 2018 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

The editors of the Imaginal Politics vertical at Public Seminar are excited to announce their partnership with the organizers of the 2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research. This year’s Symposium, entitled “Philosophy and Coloniality” represents an overdue focus on the ways ...

2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy

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Revisiting Ta-Nehisi Coates on White Supremacy

The Status of Hope in America

April 10, 2018 • by Madison Chu

The American fear of uncertainty is one that the people living within her belly strive to terminate through pragmatism, which promises quantifiable and “progressive” results. The entire “American Dream” rests on the fundamental faith that our institutions and famous (infamous we might argue) social slogan instills into each American heart: ...

Revisiting Ta-Nehisi Coates on White Supremacy

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Damon Linker is Wrong About Liberals

Here’s why

April 3, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Damon Linker is a respected writer, columnist for The Week, and editor (University of Pennsylvania Press). He is also a Facebook friend of mine. I enjoy his columns, and often exchange comments with him. He has offered strong and admirable criticisms of Trump, and of the ways the Republican party and ...