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1 week ago | 
liberalcurrents.com | Katherine Cross |Adam Gurri |Caitlin Green |Trent Nelson
— 13 min read There was no pretense around the idea of ‘free speech’ in a theocracy like Saudi Arabia, where I grew up. There simply wasn’t any freedom to speak your mind—and no one was trying to make you believe otherwise. Everything was censored: movies, music, cartoons, magazines, books.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
aftermath.site | Katherine Cross
Early in the prologue of 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, your spymistress Leliana sets the tone:“‘Blessed are the peacekeepers, the champions of the just. Blessed are the righteous, the lights in the shadow. In their blood, the Maker’s will is written.’ Is that what you want from us? Blood? To die so that Your will is done?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Katherine Cross
The game begins unassumingly enough with a shot of two special forces operatives, weapons at the ready, on either side of a metal door, ready to blast it open.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
liberalcurrents.com | Robert L. Tsai |Danielle Wenner |Samantha Hancox-Li |Katherine Cross
In the days after January 6, 2021, it appeared that the worst was finally behind us. The shock of that event was felt quite broadly at first. It seemed as though Trump might truly be politically finished, that we needed only to make it to Biden’s inauguration without another incident and we would all be able to breathe a collective sigh of relief. The worst outcomes had been avoided—so it seemed at the time. Yet here we are, in November of 2024.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Katherine Cross
In the world of videogames, PAX – or Penny Arcade Expo – is a distinctive mix of sincere fandom and cynical marketing. These are dark days for videogaming, with nearly 23,000 jobs lost since the start of 2023, and it can feel as if things will never be the same. But hope blossoms in the cracks. In the case of PAX, the smallest booths and the cheapest spaces on the expo hall floor usually have the most to say.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Katherine Cross
REFLECTION ARTICLE A little glitter goes a long way Katherine L. Cross MEd, Corresponding Author Katherine L. Cross MEd Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA Correspondence Katherine L. Cross, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University, University Health Center—6G, 4201 St. Antoine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. Email: [email protected] for more papers by this author Katherine L. Cross MEd, Corresponding Author Katherine L.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Katherine Cross
Still Wakes the Deep begins, in the words of Malcolm Tucker, as “just another day at the fuck-office”. Cameron “Caz” McLeary, an electrician on the North Sea oil rig Beira D, is a man at the end of his sparking wire, on the run from the police, staring down a divorce and about to get fired. Then Cthulhu shows up and gives Caz a whole new set of truly novel problems to confront.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Katherine Cross
Perhaps for me the most satisfying moment was watching a coral reef repopulate a shore, like rainbow popcorn bursting under an azure sea. I’d transformed a polluted archipelago into the tropical paradise it once was. Contemplating the continued destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, delivering beautiful coral to a shoreline felt like singing a song of hope.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Katherine Cross
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Katherine Cross’s essay collection Log Off is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read all year. Jude Ellison S. Doyle wrote of the book:“Clear, funny, humane and game-changing.
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May 29, 2024 | 
aftermath.site | Katherine Cross
As much as we all like to sing the praises of touching grass, if you're reading this, maybe you struggle with being Too Online. There's no denying the cursed allure of doomscrolling and shitposting, but in her upcoming book, writer Katherine Cross asks: what is posting really all about? What, if anything, is it good for? Below is the introduction to Cross' book Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix, coming out June 4 from LittlePuss Press.
