Let’s go back exactly five months—July 4th. With the exception of a few superstars—Benito, Aubrey, Evil Jordan, Abel—it had been a relatively uneventful first half of the year in music. The residue of...
12.04.2025 Complex.com and 1 sites
Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recomme...
12.03.2025 Scientificamerican.com and 1 sites
When ChatGPT is asked to define racism , it answers, “it is not just an attitude, but a power and exclusion structure across the social, economic, cultural and political. ” AfroféminasGPT, on the othe...
12.05.2025 Elpais.com
Olivia Dean lives for the drama. Not drama in the parlance of reality TV or social media — the drama of moving through the world like you’re the main character in a movie, of treating yourself like th...
12.02.2025 Nylon.com and 1 sites
Psychotherapist Whitney Goodman popularized the phrase “toxic positivity” on Instagram—the ideas of which she eventually gathered into a book with that same title (Penguin Random House LLC, 2022). The term itself may be fairly new, however, being and staying positive “no matter what” goes way back. Psychological exploration of the “concept of unrealistic optimism” goes back to at least 1980. [The] “term toxic positivity first appeared in J. Halberstam’s 2011 The Queer Art of Failure, a work that...
12.04.2025 Feminismandreligion.com
This skill is evident in Seeds, which largely unfolds in the slow, unhurried pace of rural life. Composed of very patient, long takes, Seeds lets you sit with its moments, almost as if you are there, ...
12.02.2025 Documentary.org
Community is the theme for the fifth bell hooks Writing Contest The contest that honors the internationally acclaimed author from Hopkinsville is accepting entries through Jan. 15. by Jennifer P. Brow...
12.04.2025 Hoptownchronicle.org
Last week, Austin Peay State University brought students, faculty, families and supporters together for the 31st annual Bread and Words reading. This year’s event, hosted by Raymond Deeren, an assista...
12.04.2025 Theallstate.org
2025 has been the year of the performative male. By now, you’ve probably seen innumerable thinkpieces, memes, and TikToks about this matcha-drinking, tote-bag-toting subgenre of man, if not encountere...
12.04.2025 Dazeddigital.com
By Tsunma Rangrig Dolma, a Tibetan Buddhist nun A critique of Sonia’s Feleiro’s “The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait, ’” published by the Guardian on November 26th, 2025 and why it misses the mark. There is an exhaus...
12.02.2025 Phayul.com