Identity Archives - Page 7 of 11

Event

What Happened at Hypatia?

Peer Review, Academic Kinship, and Social Media

May 12, 2017 • by Meryl Altman, Timothy Burke and Claire Potter

In response, over 500 feminists -- a mix of senior, untenured and independent scholars, as well as graduate and a few undergraduate students, signed a letter demanding that Hypatia retract Tuvel’s article. They argue that it “falls short of scholarly standards in various areas,” uses incorrect vocabulary, “deadnames” Jenner (refers ...

Psyche

The Insanity of Narcissism

Exploring Narcissism in Today’s Politics

April 22, 2017 • by Daniel Shaw

Mental health practitioners generally agree, since the Goldwater days, that it is not appropriate to offer psychoanalytic diagnoses of public figures we’ve never actually interviewed or treated. However, many of us, myself included, are chomping at the bit these days. It’s especially tempting for me, since I’ve been writing and ...

Multi Media

Pink Out the Capital

April 14, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 500 women and a few men gathered on the east lawn of the US Capital building on March 29 to declare that "I Stand With Planned Parenthood." The Senate was due to vote on a resolution to permit the states to deny federal family planning funds to health care ...

Feature

Get Out & The Horror of White Pleasure

An Examination of Jordan Peele’s 2017 Film

April 12, 2017 • by Ella Myers

The terrific film Get Out -- which writer and director Jordan Peele aptly dubs a “social thriller” -- is a smash hit and critics’ favorite. Many glowing reviews converge on a key claim: the film is a gripping exposé of “white liberal hypocrisy.” And it is. But it is also, and ...

Feature

Anthony Wayne, Distributed Sovereignty, and the Bodies of the Republic

From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 1

April 10, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Is Wayne -- from his uncouthness to his ruthlessness to his success -- useful to think with today? There are certainly ways he haunts our present. Historians, for example, have often seen him as a forbearer of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policies. And as such he connects, via a recent, ...

Anthony Wayne, Distributed Sovereignty, and the Bodies of the Republic

Feature

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition

Steve King’s American Exceptionalism and its Ties to the “Slaves were Immigrants, too” Thesis

March 30, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

I don’t want to spend much time on King’s comments themselves, but let’s note here the way that “American civilization” is equated with “Western civilization”. Let’s also note that other civilizations are inferior to this civilization, precisely because other civilizations “produce very little freedom,” while “our” superior civilization produces more. ...

Uncategorized

Why I am Jewish

It’s Political

March 15, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

I do so for political reasons. I feel it is important for all Jews to now stand up and say they will not be intimidated by the hate crimes that are being inflicted on their synagogues and cemeteries, their homes and their persons. For me, proudly proclaiming my Jewish identity ...

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Twenty Theses on Posthumanism, Political Affect, and Proliferation

A Talk Not Given for the Vera List Center, Due to Viral Illness

March 10, 2017 • by Dominic Pettman

The human is the animal that relies on technology in order to realize its humanity. The “post-human” is thus an ontological category, more than a historical one. The very first humans were, from this perspective, as posthuman as we are today. We are ever using tools and prostheses to get ahead ...

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Reflections from the LGBTQ Solidarity Rally

At the Stonewall Inn, NYC

March 3, 2017 • by Lina Landstroem

A few weeks ago, I went to the Stonewall LGBTQ Solidarity Rally. It was the first demonstration I had participated in since the election of President Trump; for various reasons I had not felt the need to go to one before that. Instead, I had been fighting the president’s discriminatory ...

Education

Categories Outrun by Identities

Some Notes on Agnes’ Passing

February 15, 2017 • by Santiago Mandirola

The title of Garfinkel’s chapter on gender, “Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an inter-sexed person,” is a title that already hints at not only how Garfinkel will approach the issue of gender but also the bent of his entire ethnomethodology. The continuous, present-progressive form of the ...

Education

Is it “Policing Speech” to Insist on Gender-Neutral Pronouns?

A dialogue about language and identity

January 31, 2017 • by David Reddall and Lisa McKeown

Peterson articulated his views in a lecture about political correctness, which he put online. The video soon went viral. What follows is a debate about Peterson’s views, and the political, cultural, pedagogical, and linguistic issues surrounding the use of gender neutral pronouns. It takes place between two Canadian academics: Lisa McKeown ...

Feature

“Hamilton” and the Women’s March

A response to David Brooks

January 30, 2017 • by Renee Romano

He concludes his piece by offering the musical Hamilton as an example of what a more useful politics might look like. As Brooks writes, the march didn’t come close to offering a vision that can “rebind” the polity. “The musical ‘Hamilton’ is a lot closer.” His praise of Hamilton reflects that ...