Happy Mother’s Day: Kids’ Screen Time is a Feminist Issue
...overcoming women’s isolation from other women.” That isolation isn’t incidental to our feelings about mother-assisting technologies: it’s foundational. One of the core insights of feminist history and philosophy is the...
Do You Suffer from Library Anxiety?
...1986 article, Constance A. Mellon envisioned library instruction sessions that functioned as “warmth seminars,” opportunities for librarians to establish themselves as friendly, open, and helpful people. It’s a philosophy that’s...
The Lonely City: What Past Artists Tell Us About the Present
...In this mélange of memoir, art history, philosophy, and reportage, Laing deftly explores how loneliness inspired and informed several notable (pre-Internet) artists, including Edward Hopper, Henry Darger, Andy Warhol, and...
Sarah Webster Fabio: Mother of Black Studies
...defying explanation. a. rapping-to talk to someone for a period on a subject pertaining to blackness b. together-an adjective describing a person’s philosophy and total awareness pertaining to blackness 2....
Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Brilliant (Black, Feminist, Queer, Trailblazing) Friend
...to him saying: I am a Negro, the most oppressed, misunderstood and most neglected section of your population. You called on Americans to support a liberal philosophy based on democracy....
Stranded on the Island of the Blue Dolphins: The True Story of Juana Maria
...and occasionally maraud around “his” island. Although he has long since resolved not to kill them—aided by a paternalistic “they know not what they do” philosophy—he still lives in fear...
Western Lands and the Rise of the Political Right
...senior Senator, Ted Stevens told crowds in Utah in 1980, the nation’s “emerging philosophy is one of Western thought: less government, wise use of lands, and the movement toward the...
Reopening The X-Files: Is ESP Possible?
Here I am again, Scully, up late pursuing this obsession with ESP. You keep telling me it has to be a fraud, that they’ve found serious errors with statistical analyses...
Can an Emoji Ever Be a Word?
...a word? It’s complicated. Margaret Masterman’s 1954 philosophy of language paper on the subject categorizes three common, yet distinctly unhelpful responses to this question: 1. “Everybody knows what a word...
Empathy and Imagery
...education, philosophy, and sociology, showing how complex and subconscious the feeling can be. Snow shows how, for example, emotional responses such as empathy are learned in children simply by copying...