“Impairment phenomenology is different from other kinds of phenomenology in that it does not assume a subject in command of their own faculties.” Scholar Jonathan Sterne has written a forthcoming book, Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of…
“People like him love standard procedure”
Two short scifi/fantasy stories in which customer service folks get to reward customers who treat them well, or punish those who treat them badly. Dyce writes about an isolated refueling station: “Out-of-hours fuelling requires a prior appointment.” Ai…
retail, disability, zombies, etc.
A few short scifi/fantasy stories about dark situations that turn out surprisingly well. The day nearly everyone at Evil-Mart called in sick, and the sequel. One person who gets bitten by a zombie…. yet never turns. And some survivors of the robot ap…
“Barbie Career of the Year as a Window on Centrist Feminism”
“I am not, nor have I never been, a Barbie collector, but I find the Career of the Year series fascinating as a metric of public attitudes toward feminism. …. Generally Mattel’s team wants to present Barbie as a feminist trendsetter but in a centrist…
unhygienic and impolite toward the athlete
The mayor of Nagoya has apologized for biting softball player Miu Goto’s Olympic gold medal; she will get a new one.
“start with questions of maleness and masculinity and go on from there”
In 2015, seven men discussed navigating masculinity in a roundtable discussion for the WisCon Chronicles (WisCon is a feminist scifi/fantasy convention they attend). “For me, my own maleness feels like an axiom, a defining property that I can’t prove o…
no single cause; 5.9% of youth & 2.5% of adults; safe & effective meds
“The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder” is a scientific review of studies about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, published in the September 2021 issue of Neuroscience …
“this was like discovering DNA”
David Cain of Raptitude (previously, previously, previously) has blogged for over a decade about his efforts at improving his life, including several structured experiments around “A place for everything, and everything in its place”, meditation, exerc…