If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around to describe someone perceived to have betrayed a core principle or shared value in their pursuit of personal gain. The term has recently been hurled at a range of well-known targets: Donald Trump’s former chief of staff … Read moreSellout! How political corruption shaped an American insult
While many creatures in this comic bestiary represent specific people, others appear to satirize broader nineteenth-century types. The authors claim that Audubon, for instance, overlooked the Jail Bird, a trickster that is “often taken by hand to be confined in a cage, under the vain hope that it may learn to change its tune”. In … Read moreThe Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)
Killing Joke “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes are also available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app. HOUR 1Bauhaus, “Stigmata Martyr” (In the Flat … Read morePlaylist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/10/23)
Before 2007, more people lived in rural areas than in cities. Since then, humans have become more geographically concentrated, and many cities have grown in size as people have flocked to them. But some animal species have long lived in close quarters this way and for the same kinds of reasons that people do, such … Read more10 Surreal Cities Inhabited by Animals
The authors find that women, as a group, experienced gender-based disadvantage across the key creative roles of opera production, but particularly in the artistic leadership roles of conductor and director. The authors also find that women’s exclusion in the field is being further perpetuated by the sector’s non-standard and overlapping employment structures, which impacts women … Read moreUnequal opera-tunities: gender inequality and non-standard work in US opera production
As children, many of us sat around the dinner table or a crackling campfire, listening to our parents or friends tell us the creepiest stories. We’d surreptitiously glance over our shoulders, ready to run at the slightest creak of a twig or flutter of a curtain. The characters in these stories haunted us. They brought … Read more10 Chilling Stories That Might Just Keep You Up at Night
The mothers in the sample tend to construct themselves in two main ways, as (1) valuable mothers (capable, tireless, caring mothers who are key figures in their children’s lives) and (2) competent professionals. These subjectivities are parasitic on gendered and neoliberal ideals but allow the mothers to undermine neoliberal capitalist work arrangements that were incongruent … Read more“I felt sad then, I feel free now”: a case for examining the constructive resistance of opted-out mothers
The internet is full of “facts” that will just plain blow your mind, and with the rise of social media, we have them at our fingertips more and more. However, often, with things like TikTok or Vine, we only get a tiny glimpse, and the healthy skeptic in us wonders just how much of what … Read more10 Unbelievable Sound Facts with a Ring of Truth
This study introduces five vignettes of “mixed race” women, gathered from a wider study of 27 PhDs and early career researchers in UK higher education. The paper employs Yuval-Davis’ framework of belonging and bell hooks’ approach to chosen versus forced marginality to create a conceptual framework based on fluid agency and empowerment, recognising belonging as … Read more“I’m not white”: counter-stories from “mixed race” women navigating PhDs
When a rare bottle of Scotch whisky sold for US$2.7 million in November 2023, I was stunned, but I wasn’t surprised. The whiskey market has been booming for some time. Bourbon brands like Pappy Van Winkle from Buffalo Trace distillery are selling for astronomical prices in the secondary market. Japanese whiskies, which have become popular … Read moreA bottle of scotch recently sold for $2.7 million – what’s behind such outrageous prices?