by Jenny Smith | Jun 1, 2024
Stations Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel Stations Eleven, a dystopian fiction book, by Emily St. John Mandel, is about a pandemic wiping out the majority of humans and their civilization. It explores who we might be if stripped of the identities we adopt through our...
by Jenny Smith | May 25, 2024
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat discusses how our culture often feels completely justified in discriminating against fat bodies. While implicit bias is declining in other...
by Jenny Smith | May 24, 2024
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination By Avery F. Gordon Ghostly Matters explores how unresolved trauma, both personal and generational, haunts like ghosts. We sense its presence yet can’t see it. Or perhaps we choose, either consciously or...
