Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Hey Ireland, get it right. On my birthday, Ireland is going to vote to extend basic reproductive rights to its citizens. Again, cute kids with Down syndrome are being leveraged against choice. https://t.co/QcHWOYt67I — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 23, 2018
I interviewed author Nicola Griffith for Pacific Standard. She’s one of the writers creating new literary disability culture as we speak. We are desperately in need of seeing ourselves. Telling our stories is what builds culture, builds a sense of self. I really want that to happen. For me there’s a really exciting feeling of …
Great essay on appropriating medieval fashion as feminist. In doing so they began a feminist tradition that continues today. We saw this most recently at the Met Gala where stars donned fashion inspired by the Roman Catholic Church’s long heyday from the year 500 to 1550, including Rihanna’s glittering papal mitre and cloak. It was …
I had one more thought about how to articulate the issues: Yes, it’s quite possible that shaming racists has unintended consequences that might be bad (ala Ioffe). But it’s DEFINITE that not shaming racists has unintended consequences that are REALLY BAD FOR VULNERABLE FOLKS! https://t.co/lgpBM8pvnF — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 18, 2018 Shame is …
President Trump called some immigrants “animals.” He said: “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — we’re stopping a lot of them,” Mr. Trump said in the Cabinet Room during an hourlong meeting that reporters were allowed to document. “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people, …
There’s the CA-Senate Nazi (leading GOP), the WI 01 Nazi (leading GOP), the IL 03 Nazi (Won GOP primary uncontested), and the TN County Assessor Nazi (won 40% of the vote for primary). — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 5, 2018 There are Nazis doing well in GOP elections. There’s always been a radical fringe, …
My colleague, Katharine Gerbner, a brilliant historian of the Carribean, wrote this for the Washington Post: Although many today consider race to be an immutable characteristic, that wasn’t always the case. Before the 17th century, whiteness didn’t even exist as a racial category. It emerged for the worst of reasons: slave-owning politicians invented “whiteness” as …
I get this question a lot. Eve Ewing has published a guide to the “personal statement” that is brilliant and useful. She writes: The personal statement is a slightly misleading title for this document. It is not primarily about you holistically in the way your college personal statement was. It serves ONE MAJOR PURPOSE: to …
NEW at Pacific Standard: On Monday, Dean Moneta went into a campus coffee shop for tea and a vegan muffin, was offended by the lyrics of a rap song that came up on the shop’s Spotify playlist, and promptly had the two employees on duty fired. In this case—as in other recent cases where professors …
Adding to the list of conservatives on campuses doing the things that the accuse liberals of doing (and the Free Speech Warriors staying quiet because they don’t care about Christian universities anyway). https://t.co/pqG3VTQxW8 — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 9, 2018 Whatever it is that conservatives accuse liberals of doing on college campuses are things …