Christopher Rufo's anti-DEI crusade visits University of South Florida The activist who's helped frame critical race theory as a threat for conservatives has a new target: the University of…www.axios.com As someone who lives in Florida and attended public school through and including graduate school in Florida, this rhetoric reshaping the academic integrity of public education in the state is beyond disturbing.

An elegy for my ovary and a toast to the future. — At the emergency room, they ask you to rate pain on a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being meh, 10 being unspeakable agony. As my sister sped down the local highway, I was convinced, for one solid minute, that I was dying. This event happened in August 2020, at…

“Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality.” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time The original intent of the 1619 Project was not to rewrite the historical record of our American mythology, but to provide context. Reading the amount…

It’s raining. On July 9th, I took a COVID-19 test along with three members of my family. It was at a drive-thru testing site. I thought they were going to take swab of a nostril, maybe go a little deep in there like when you’re digging for a booger. …

No wonder Europe disinvited the US from summering in the Mediterranean. — The times are getting stranger and stranger, but there is something cold and, frankly, terrifying about living in a moment in the United States where getting tested for a contagious virus has become not only politicized, but also increasingly fraught and complicated. With the nonstop COVID-19 coverage interrupted by nonstop…

A particular exchange between Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, underlines the faulty thinking surrounding the relationship between governance and public health: Senator Paul: As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all…

Update: on May 8, 2020, George and Travis McMichael were arrested and charged with felony murder and aggravated assault. The video is clear. It is disorienting in its clarity. And you wonder, for a moment, if this is a found-footage film, something like a cross between Get Out and The…

Or, how I learned POC is the new PC term for CP — “I thought of them as people of color, because I knew I wanted to talk about race and class, and those things are so intertwined in our country and our culture…But I didn’t feel like I was the right person to try to bring a black woman’s experience to the…

Like a few billion people around the world, I am practicing a semi-enforced, self-isolation scheme called ‘social distancing’. Under normal circumstances, this scheme is my typical weekend, but when Sunday extends into Monday and Monday melts into all the other days, it starts to feel a little…rote. Maybe, and this…