Former big baby: “I was a big baby.”
Former small baby: “Yeah, I see that for you.”
Overheard in Terrace
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All About the Money: On Fiscal Republicans’ Anti-Choice Rhetoric
A Nass writer speculates about what the political right stands to gain from overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Kissing Covens: The Gilda Stories as a Manifesto of Radical Black Love
“The horizontal, chosen family works outside of the law — in The Gilda Stories, love is never codified by a wedding, same sex and interracial relationships play out beyond the reach of history, and one can have limitless mothers.”
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DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT: A Personal(ish) History of Fanfiction
“Now that it’s mainstream, it’s hard for me to reconcile the subcultural nature of fanfiction and fan spaces with its ever-increasing visibility. For almost a decade, I’ve been so entrenched in fan culture that it surprises me when someone doesn’t know what Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics entail.”
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You Look Healthy: The Veiled and Wounding Culture of Body Shame in Urban South Asia
How cultural ideals of thin, fair, and lovely are wounding South Asian women.
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Director’s Cut: Full Design
This week, the Nass talks about movies, bodies, and movies about dog bodies.
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When Your B1tch Becomes Human: A Review of My Dog Tulip
“If Ackerley perceives his dependent, female dog as essentially human, this is a strong statement regarding Ackerley’s beliefs about women in general. In fact, many of his statements regarding Tulip, throughout the film, feel steeped in misogyny, given that they are not statements generally associated with dogs.”
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Occupation of a Life
He put his hands in the pocket of his brown leather jacket, looking for a piece of paper. All he found was a small receipt he had got from the stationary store in exchange for a red pen, and he wrote: A sailor on land Climbed to the mountaintop and all he saw was the…
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On Girl Math
“When feminists take things like makeup and plastic surgery and argue that we ought to uncritically ‘let women do what they want,’ it reinforces the belief that the goal of modern feminism ought to be to ‘reclaim’ an oppressive, patriarchal standard and pretend we have chosen it for ourselves.”
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Brush With Death: Full Design
This week, the Nass recycles beer cans, interrogates TikTok feminism, and decides what good art is.
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Flyover Country
“The people she invented shared none of her problems, none of her responsibilities. She gave them their own small disasters, which were different from her own and therefore interesting, instead of just pathetic. She was deeply, stupidly jealous of them.”
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When Sustainability Isn’t Sexy
“Does the ‘look’ of sustainability, a sort of glamorous image expressed in the carefully crafted brand of environmental nonprofits, obscure all the unassuming pockets of sustainability?”
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