Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
through their avatars and through
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible and allowable.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Burned by hand into its face were four unsettling words: “The Book of Innocents.”
Tina M. Campt • Listening to Images
Quiet is a modality that surrounds and infuses sound with impact and affect, which creates the possibility for it to register as meaningful.
Tina M. Campt • Listening to Images
internalization of the stereotype.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
focus on differences can lead to insights about shared traits.
AnaLouise Keating • Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change
how does one memorialize chattel slavery and its afterlives, which are unfolding still? How do we memorialize an event that is still ongoing?