the lab

louisarachel:

I woke up thinking about gendered vocal expectations, the pressures that are put on singers, and how we get kinda set up to hurt ourselves.

Have you noticed that for every John Mayer vocal rest cancellation, there are like, 5 women canceling shows due to vocal problems? (Kelly Clarkson, Janet…

Great stuff from my little sister the rock singer

As the Good Men Project kicks off a mega-discussion of “the end of men” and “the end of gender”, I pause to ponder what William James would say.

The advantages (few) and disadvantages (many) of binary thinking for human life (and for understanding the relationship between Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell.

More from my cultures of basketball course.  In which I reflect upon rereading, quest narratives, metaphor, and invention.  Also James Naismith, Moses, Martin Luther, the Royal Society, Romantic Poetry, and the Constitution of the United States of America.  

Steve Locke called for a discussion among people who think they are white about what they gain by the thought, and what they lose.  In this piece, I try to answer the call.  Recalling my experience playing pickup basketball at Heman Park in St. Louis, I try to break down why I think I put whiteness on, how it slipped away from me, and what I gained in the process.