And why should she have to endure it alone? Rape is the product of societal attitudes toward women and their worth. Everyone wants her to keep it private, but her effort to register the rape is precisely to make it a matter of public record. If it is public, then everyone has to deal with it. The individual, the hero of American freedoms and democracy, is, in this brilliant work, forced to be an enemy of the state.
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A Tale of Two Amazons – Slog – The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/03/21/25939850/a-tale-of-two-amazons
It’s super-hard for workers to block the circuits of finance, which are located not in real-time but in the future. Two things that have moved the world’s economy deeper and deeper into the future: financial assets and debt.
What the Black Panther Soundtrack Should Have Sounded Like: A Playlist – Slog – The Stranger
Black Panther Marks the Death of Afrocentricism – Slog – The Stranger
Black Panther Echoes Afrofuturism and Disses French-Speaking Africa – Slog – The Stranger
Poor Response to Puerto Rico Shows Racism Is Not About Exploiting POCs but White Americans – Slog – The Stranger
Why the Over Representation of Black Americans in Professional Sports Is Not a Good Thing – Slog – The Stranger
What the Tweet of Trump Eclipsing Obama Means – Slog – The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/08/25/25376648/what-the-tweet-of-trump-eclipsing-obama-means
Trump’s presidency is about how he experienced Obama’s presidency, about how it perpetually preoccupied and consumed his thoughts like a Zahir. And so we have a presidency that reflects Trump’s madness and not the common form of a presidency, which combines periods of absence with those of presence.