Lily Salter's Blog, page 1061
July 5, 2015
We still don’t know how to talk about Pennsatucky: The reality of rural sexual assault and how class plays out in “Orange Is the New Black”
Women in rural areas are structurally at risk for sexual assault—and yet Tiffany's story is absurdly idiosyncratic
Noam Chomsky: Austerity is just class war
The celebrated philosopher and linguist weighs in on Greece's debt problems and Europe's egregious response
Pre-crastination is a thing — and it can be just as destructive as procrastination
Fascinating new research explores the dangers of completing tasks quickly for the sake of their quick completion
“You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?”
My boss needed me to take all the offensive words out of the Scrabble dictionary. What an impossible, sh**ty task
“Modern racism lurks in the shadows of equality”: Why colorblind school policies have failed black people
Instead of confronting racial and cultural divides, American education only serves to further them
July 4, 2015
The cult of my childhood: Across three continents, life was a whirlwind of uncertainty
Japan was the worst, for me. Returning 25 years later, with my kids, helped me overwrite the past and set me free
“And everybody cried”: The callous murder of the Harvey family and the song it inspired
"Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife" came to be as a search for peace through songwriting after a horrific crime
“When a woman is smarter than a man”: My mother’s lessons in beauty and independence
My Korean mom doesn't know "feminist" from "feminine," but she still taught me about strength
Twenty-one was “the perfect wolf”: He was a legend — he never lost a fight, and he never killed a vanquished rival
Twenty-one was like history’s highest-status human leaders: Not a ruthless strongman but a peaceful warrior
We pledge allegiance to the United States of Inc.: Corporations become nation-states in Silicon Valley’s latest utopian management scheme
In Holacracy's vision, workers are citizens of the companies that will one day rule the world
