Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.
In the tautology established around pit bulls, all pit bulls are dangerous dogs and all dangerous dogs are pit bulls.
Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.
To point out that two such high-placed women in the world’s most powerful country had to negotiate their political lives through those of their husbands is not sexist: It simply points to the incredible sexism that still undergirds our political structure.
Segregation in this city is not some genteel agreement between the races and ethnicities to quietly live away from each other.
The links between “animality” and race have always been vividly present even if never explicitly discussed.
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Weekly Roundup: August 11, 2016
Hyde Park’s unique and increasingly deathly history as a neighbourhood that exposes the collusion between a major research university that continues to voraciously gobble up chunks of prime real estate while expelling its long-time residents.
We are here, we were there. We were never going shopping.