#Essay

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

The chapter on Profanity in my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls explains all of this Also: Fuck is a Feminist word“When the fascist fucks in

💀 fio 🩸

fiovske

Villanelle's arc, the way her understanding of love molds, goes from the confused possessive tone of "you're MINE" at the s2 finale; to the overarching growth thru s3 to reach

Eve Fairbanks

evefairbanks

1/36 A thread on Alana Newhouse's Tablet essay. I'm sorry to criticize an essay framed around a writer's ill child. But my dream for the 2020s is to read big,

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

I’ve watched multiple friends go through this. It’s deeply painful & horrifying. Now the whole world just saw a small part of the horror broadcast live from the Capitol. So

The Wizard Of Wrestling

wrasslinwizard

This may turn into a thread;One of the best tag teams of all time and my favorite currently. Them securing this spot tho has reasons apart from them being fantastic

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

Not sure how to make this clear, but the entire "diversity" industry is a PR hustle, nothing more. Do what they want for temporary positive PR (until the next round

Siân Davidson

English_MrsD

Using Jamboard in the English classroom - a thread.*Disclaimer* I'm still a relative newbie to using it & still have lots to learn but here are some really simple, yet

Carl Suddler

Prof_Suddler

Quick thread on my fall 2020 research seminar, "Mass Incarceration beyond the New Jim Crow" @EmoryUniversity (in @EmoryHistory). As many of us know, it is really tough to get work

Nithin Sridhar

nkgrock

Sati is perhaps the biggest humbug used to beat Hinduism. Very conveniently employed in different modes to discredit Hindu practices. If they want to compare a Hindu practice with something

Josh Hochschild

JoshHochschild

How to read PlatoHere are some basic principles for interpreting Socratic dialogues.(Intended for new readers of Plato, perhaps useful to experienced readers too.)1/6 1. Every dialogue is an apologia for

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

"Let’s never do that again."The @NYTimes invited me to imagine a bold Biden presidency for the cover package of this weekend's Sunday Review.Let others argue for caution. This is my

Jinghua Qian

qianjinghua

Hi new followers! I'm guessing most of you are here because of @abc730 so here's a thread of my work on Chinese Australians and the China-Australia relationship - though I

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

As a writer, it is important to be able to distinguish the feeling of being obsolescent from the feeling of being silenced. Both experiences are painful. But if your leg

luca ☭

PunishedLuca

“Juche_is_Good”? Glad you asked, let’s have a look 1/?https://twitter.com/juche_is_good/status/1357142165655195649 Probably, first thing to address would be the nationalist aspect of Juche. In Kim Jong Il’s essay, “on nationalism

Danielle Navarro

djnavarro

I often hear it asserted that there is very little opportunity for nuance when discussing transgender topics online. I think that is true, in the sense that there are a

Josh Vallance

MrVallanceTeach

This is why I think the Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) from @TheWritingRevol makes so much sense. This is a Y11 student with a target level 4 (who in previous years

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