anthropology & etc.

I have dreamt of moving to San Francisco for the last 10 years, and I’ve finally landed right smack in the middle of it: 6th Street by way of South of Market, or SoMa. By in the middle of it, I don’t mean geographically but literally I am seeing, month-by-month, the neighborhood change. This is ...

“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” On Sunday, I went to the Metreon in downtown SF to watch “42,” an overly dramatic but a damn good portrait of Jackie Robinson breaking the color-lines in  baseball to become the first African American to play for a major league team in 1947. You watch it ...

Every religion produces its own kind of secularism, even yours. This is a question I’m really interested in looking at in the U.S. today because it is at the crux of American science, policy, and politics—religion, belief systems, etc., all those things that are deemed to be outside of science. What if we started seeing ...

I’m excited to bring together an all-star group of scholars to talk about sacredness, secularism, technology, and the state at an roundtable for the American Anthropological Association in Chicago this November 20-24.   The rountable discussion will include: Sarah Bakker (UCSC), Brian Anderson (Stanford), Kim TallBear (UT Austin), Heather Mellquist (UCB), Meira Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Gaymon Bennett (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), Sarah Wagner ...

More inspired then ever to–among other things–maintain a public online persona after reading this blog entry, “Transition Q & A with Sarah Kendzior,” by an anthropology graduate student who now works for Al Jazeera. I feel like I’m always having to whisper in the hallways about the very real possibility that I will not be able to get ...

I’m so tired of this, and frankly, I’m so tired of being a female. Time for a new masculinity, yo. Donglegate: How One Brogrammer’s Sexist Joke Led to Death Threats and Firings Adria Richards tweeted about a guy who she said made a sexist joke at a tech conference. He was fired. Then she was, ...

Powerful. Rest in Peace. youtube.com/watch?v=gIaQ5g… —