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Talking with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba

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Maurice Sendak on Tomi Ungerer, and The King’s Speech

“Like we give a shit whether he stuttered or not. And you know, that’s just dumb. That’s just so dumb.“

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Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter

Excerpt: Twitter is not merely a symptom of a public sphere but a platform that is bound up with the primary dictate of neoliberalism: Make yourself or die.

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Suey Park: Images

This document is a collection of images referenced in “Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter.”  It will be constantly updated with more as the series progresses. 

All images are screencaps from public Instagram and Twitter accounts.

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The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet

The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism.

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Oscars: Diversity Is Not the Problem

The Academy operates like a corporation, and like every corporation it will work hard to maintain its facade of diversity.  

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How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.

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Twitter Trials: Why I Am Writing about Suey Park

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On Power Couples

Power couples are scum multiplied into two.

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What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Race

Blue II (1961) - Joan Miro
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