There is a particular mood to the road home on a Friday evening. The week has spent itself. People are thinking about dinner, children, groceries, a glass of something, perhaps nothing more ambitious than removing their shoes. The city is still moving, but its mind has already gone home. Then the traffic stops. At about … Continue reading Wellington Traffic Chaos
Never Been Woke
I have just finished Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke. It is a useful book because it does not offer the usual lazy attack on “wokeness.” Its more serious argument is about class, status, language, and moral performance. It shows how some highly educated professional classes can speak the language of justice while still … Continue reading Never Been Woke
SMoTHer: When Institutions Learn to Breathe Downward
I went looking for a word and found a trapdoor. The word I had in mind was something like misogynoir, a term coined by Moya Bailey to describe the particular form of racist misogyny experienced by Black women. It names something that cannot be fully captured by either racism or sexism alone. It identifies a … Continue reading SMoTHer: When Institutions Learn to Breathe Downward
Faultline Report 