Authoritarian assholes:
 

So I missed the debate and the Pilsen Interactive Media Project wrap-up, because I went over to Oakland for the opening night of Critical Resistance 10. I’m excited about the next two days of the conference, and I’ll make a more substantive post about it later.
Back in the city of fog, I hopped on my […]

Sandy Witkow and John Greenberg are doing something incredible: they’re offering vernacular election coverage. I remember hearing them talk about their plans months ago when I was still living in Chicago and thinking too good to be true, not gonna happen. But they were serious, and they have worked hard to bring you the Pilsen Interactive […]

Here’s a problem: reformists end up playing by oppressor’s rules, forming factions, and marginalizing minorities; revolutionaries become zealots who need to convert an army before they get anything done.
Here’s the underlying problem: change is slow, because people change slowly. Reformists want change that requires the consent of the very people responsible for why things are […]

Fall is here and all those TV shows I had forgotten about enjoying are starting again. Looking for jobs can’t take up all the time in a day, so I find myself streaming pop culture into my house from Hulu.
The third season of Heroes premiered last night. Heroes is to X-Men what John Legend is […]

The author of one of my favorite blogs asked me to do a guest post.
>Check it out!

Here’s a fun little exercise: try to think of female movie and TV characters whose gender is an afterthought. Characters who matter-of-factly defy gender boundaries, whose sexuality is not a focus, who will be praised as “strong” rather than “strong for a female character.”
It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. We spent […]

1) Go to a grocery store and score some free boxes
2) Get some glue guns
3) Put on some music you will enjoy
4) Make a crazy cardboard sculpture with your friends
5) Sneak into the rich part of town and leave it on the porch of a big house

Aternet posted an excellent article about the role of white privilege in the current presidential race. It can be hard for white folks to recognize privilege, precisely because we have it and consider it normal. The article does a good job of highlighting things we may have overlooked, for example:
White privilege is when you can claim that […]

I’m reading tons of old emails and thinking, Do we ever really change? I keep finding evidence that my character hasn’t changed, it has just unfolded. I’m remembering when I was thirteen and I got mad at Mark for not figuring out how he was going to get home from a Boy Scout event so that […]