culture

Long On Exclusion: How Investors, Institutions, and the State Keep the Margin Open

From 1493 papal decrees to 2025 AI eviction pilots, and the single profit logic that sustains them.

Jun 21 •

Racism as a Business Model

How Denial Became a Revenue Stream—and What It Will Take to Break the Machine

Jun 13 •

Universality Disincentivizes Surveillance

In health insurance, credit, and employment, private actors mine ZIP codes, prescription histories, résumé gaps, and spending habits to assign risk and…

Jun 2 •

My Feminism Is Not Soft

It’s structural, intentional, and systemic.

May 31 •

American Culture is Stored in the Tax Code

Ask someone outside the US to describe American life, and they might mention sprawling homes, last-minute December donations, business trips that double…

May 13 •

Who Gets to Tell the Story?

Why Denial Is the Core of Structural Power

May 11 •

It Really Does Take Two

Power’s greatest conquest isn’t crushing lone rebels or dispersing crowds—it’s sneaking into the everyday interpersonal bonds we rely on.

May 6 •

Perverse Stability vs. Authentic Peace

We’ve grown so accustomed to equating silence with peace that we overlook the heavy toll it exacts.

May 5 •

Say It Again Anyway

I nearly scrapped this draft because I’d already unpacked institutional forgetting in The Amnesia Engine. My inner editor—raised on Omit needless words…

May 4 •

Heartbroken and Devastated™

What happens when grief is routinized? When mourning scripts follow mass shootings, airstrikes, or police violence—but policy doesn’t move?

May 2 •

What I Hope Happens to You

I don’t want you to just avoid burnout, I want you to see labor as a site of struggle, defaults as political choices, and for us to reforge our systemic…

May 1 •

No Consent, No Planet: the Curious Ethics of 'The Stack'

To confront planetary crisis meaningfully, we must insist on refusal, accountability, and explicit, structural consent.

Apr 29 •

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