#Essay

Ben Burgis

BenBurgis

Just for the hell of it, here's a list of the things I wrote in 2020 I'm most proud of: (1) "What Michael Brooks Meant To Me"https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-tmbs (2) "There Will

doc, starring billy ray cyrus

docsquiddy

Writing essays is weird. So, I love fiction from people who are being deeply, intimately personal, right? There's just something more compelling to me to read someone who is coming

Melina

Defoni

The Fandom Police/anti-shippers are pissing me off, so here's a reminder to everyone of the THE THREE LAWS OF FANDOM.Simple things, it's really not that fucking hard to follow them.(Originally

Community-Centric Fundraising

comm_centric

HOW NONPROFITS FAIL THEIR EMPLOYEES WITH MENTAL ILLNESS (A thread - from an essay by Ashley Lugo) Like any disability, mental illness is associated with shame & stigma. Since it’s

Paul Cruickshank

CruickshankPaul

With this ABC News headline this morning "Pentagon plans to cut most of its support to CIA's counterterrorism missions" @BrianMJenkins deep think piece for @CTCWP Sentinel on the future role

Barbara | end white supremacy forever

bfister

I first drafted this essay months ago and the first readers thought I’d better do more to define this weird movement I was using as an example. Most people hadn’t

Piney Mantilla 🌲

PunkyMantilla

Home Alone is the most Catholic Christmas movie of all time. Though seasoned theologians debate whether Kevin correctly applied Just War Theory in his attempts to fend off Harry and

Kyle Chayka

chaykak

A few people have laughed at this line in my essay about the origins of sensory deprivation: “Dolphins are floating all the time." I wanted to explain that more in

Phil Gentry

pmgentry

If you are seeing Hamilton for the first time on July 3, here are my personal recommendations for scholarly writing on the musical, in roughly chronological order! Paywalls abound, sorry!

Saima Mir

SaimaMir

My little brother called me recently. He'd just read an essay I'd written. He said "let me read this bit to you." He quoted something I'd written about my feelings

Charu Singh

nagharnaghat

What is it that we do, in translating a text from historical document to write it as history? What kind of knowledge practice is it, our own reading, writing, history,

Chloé S. Valdary 📚

cvaldary

I keep thinking about those racialists who critique the rational objectivism of the West. They are correct to be weary of the hyper rational mindset but ironically reject the mythological

Clare Frances

missdaisyfdoo

1. 'Feminism is a tool. A set of analyses. A map. It helps us to understand how patriarchy works in the world and gives us directions out of the brutal

RAFAEL

RafaelCasal

Something for white folks to take away from Juneteenth, that applies to what you are doing right now. A SHORT THREAD: Lincoln is praised for freeing enslaved people in our

Joshua Tait

Joshua_A_Tait

Revisiting Richard Hofstadter's essay 'The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt' (1955). Here are the highlights of an essay that was in many ways prescient: (thread) Hofstadter sketches out a distinction between restrained conservatism

elisabeth sherman

shermanelis

Although this year has been caked and doused in horrid personal and political hardship, I nonetheless managed to write several features of which I am incredibly proud. Here is a

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