The Indypendent

1 week ago | indypendent.org | Eleanor Bader

Journalist and Lutheran pastor Angela Denker, herself the mother of sons, knows that boys can be affectionate, caring and sweet, but she also knows that they can be drawn to hate and violence. Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood, Denker’s second book, probes the ways Christian nationalism is marketed to them and exposes the misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia that are its stock and trade.

3 weeks ago | indypendent.org | Eleanor Bader |Red Emma's

The term “accountability” is often bandied about, but the Pinko Collective’s latest book, After Accountability, does a deep dive into what it actually means to be accountable and to whom.

4 weeks ago | indypendent.org | Sam Alcoff

Rare is the college brochure that informs potential students of the minutiae of massive university financial endowments. Today’s universities, which often hold colossal land and stock portfolios, can be giant and complicated institutions with interdisciplinary administrations straddling education in the classroom and corporate governance in management. But what’s left off during a campus tour can soon become apparent after orientation.

1 month ago | indypendent.org | Amba Guerguerian

It takes two to Ouija, at least the way I played the spiritualist parlor game growing up. Each person places a hand on the planchette and lets it be their guide. Of course, one hand is actually directing the pointer in the process of divination. The other participates only in so far as it submits to the message. Spectacle functions in much the same way. There’s no show without an audience and, in a consumerist society, it’s expected to be a passive one.

1 month ago | indypendent.org | Jessica Stein |Amba Guerguerian |Molly Landreth

In these fascist times, you may find yourself craving community, but wary of repeating unhealthy patterns in your dating life, friendship circles and activist groups. Thank goodness for Dean Spade’s new book, Love in a Fucked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. Spade has been an activist and author for 20-plus years, most notably founding the Sylvia Rivera Law Project for trans advocacy.