This post is the first in a series by guest author, Carter Weeks Maddox. Carter Weeks Maddox teaches English composition at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he recently completed a graduate degree in literature.… Read More
This is a guest post from Kate Balug, an artist and producer of cultural urban projects. Her current research includes an examination of critical imagination as a tool to redefine urban paradigms, intervention… Read More
This is an entry by guest author Marcel LaFlamme, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, who is currently conducting fieldwork in North Dakota. Those of us who care… Read More
This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA.… Read More
We’re back for a jam-packed Day 2 of the Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces conference, put on by the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies in the Boston-metro area. Over 250 people registered for… Read More
A team of PT writers and guest bloggers will be on the campus of MIT – starting tonight! – to blog in real time the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender,… Read More
This article is part of a series on alternative transportation and culture and is being cross-posted at the Asakura Robinson blog, where the author of this entry is employed. I recently stumbled across… Read More
This piece is a submission from guest author and poet, Silish Yigebru. Born and raised in the rural Yifat region of Ethiopia, Silish often reflects on the stark contrast between the life she… Read More
This article is part of a series on representations of the city in film in 2010. Even before Inception was released, a number of architecture blogs, including one of my favorites, BLDG BLOG,… Read More
MIT’s Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies has put together a stellar lineup for the Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces Conference, March 11-13 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference is *free* and *registration is required*. Find… Read More
One of our goals at Plurale Tantum is to spark ongoing conversations on the issues we bring up. Right now, there are three great ways to join the conversation: posting comments on the… Read More
This article is part of a series on alternative transportation and culture. Walking and biking advocates of late have been perplexed as to why their efforts do not attract people of color. If… Read More
Last weekend marked the final days of the National Portrait Gallery’s monumental exhibit, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Monumental, because in 2010, it became the first exhibit in a major American… Read More
