Week of August 19

• Politics
  When a Boycott Blocks Queer Research

  Marc Stein

  Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University
  When Welfare Was a Route to Community Empowerment in Las Vegas

  Annelise Orleck

  Annelise Orleck is Professor of History at Dartmouth College
• Culture
  What the “Gender Reveal” Reveals

  Benjamin Bernard

  Graduate student in the department of history at Princeton University
  What America Teaches White Men About Asian American Women

  Nadia Y. Kim

  Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University; author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
• Memory
  Sex with Robots

  Cassandra Seltman and Danielle Knafo
  Let’s Build a Monument to Anastácia

  Marc Hertzman and Giovana Xavier
• Classics Reconsidered
  How Should We Commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft?

  Sandrine Bergès

  Professor of philosophy at Bilkent University
• Books
  How Black Women Fight for Our Democracy

  Martha S. Jones and Claire Potter
  Cis Lit and the Trans Writer

  McKenzie Wark

  Professor of Culture and Media, New School for Social Research