For a body that had returned to episodes of violence over and over and over again, it was the first time in my adult life that I was producing something — anything — that might be restorative, and I could feel the change. Read more
New Orleans hadn’t changed; it was the same city it had been before my breakdown. It was I who had changed, perhaps unalterably. Read more
The technologies we are using to generate text—from auto-replies to articles—are learning the patterns in the set of texts we give them. And these technologies, in turn, are not only writing for all of us, but imposing the patterns they’ve learned. Read more
The societal reluctance to depict men as sexual objects is connected to the denial of female desire. Read more
Dreadlocks are part of a cultural identity which I don’t have the right to adopt, as a member of a privileged, historically oppressive, violence-seeking, Xenomorph-slaying alien race. Read more
Perhaps I love the female octopus because she is like the very best people I love: shape-shifting according to circumstance, principled in her priorities, and completely no-bullshit. When she needs to, she exercises extraordinary boundaries. Read more
The enteric nervous system embedded in our gastrointestional tract is now recognized as a complex, integrative brain in its own right. Read more
“That first time around L.A. I questioned why the entire world didn’t want to become famous.” Read more
Dr. Seuss Enterprises continues to run its multi-million-dollar global portfolio almost thirty years after the beloved author’s death, but the specter of infidelity and suicide haunts the whimsical hills of his legacy. Read more
In the 91 years of Oscar nominations, only 5 women have been nominated and two were in the last ten years. The historic and systematic exclusion of women from Oscar nominations cripples the careers of women directors.
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