RIP Journalist Marie Colvin, Killed in Syria
Award-winning Sunday Times female journalist Marie Colvin was killed in the Syrian city of Homs yesterday when shells hit the house in the Baba Amr district of Homs in which she was staying and she was...
View ArticleAaron Swartz on misogyny in technology
The world lost a genius when Aaron Swartz committed suicide. It also lost a sensitive soul willing to turn an eye towards the uglier side of the industry he loved. Here, excerpts of a 2007 interview...
View ArticleRest in power: Queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz dies at 46
Highly regarded and influential queer theorist and NYU Tish School of the Arts professor José Esteban Muñoz died yesterday at the age of 46. His work focused on the intersections of race, sexuality,...
View ArticleRest in peace, Maya Angelou
The amazing Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. As her obituaries will surely reflect, it’s impossible to sum up Angelou’s work under a single label — or three. She was a poet, writer, activist,...
View Article“Remember me as a revolutionary communist.” RIP, Leslie Feinberg.
Calling Leslie Feinberg, who died this past weekend, a trans writer and activist does a disservice to the incredible breadth of radical intersectional work ze did as an “anti-racist white,...
View ArticleHedy Epstein, Holocaust Survivor and Anti-Violence Activist, Dies at 91
We lost a dear friend this week. Hedy Epstein, who escaped Nazis as a child in Germany and spent the rest of her life fighting similar state violence in Palestine and near her home in St. Louis, died...
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