07: Season Premiere

A Manifesto for Bad Subjects

The Bad Subjects Production Team
What unites us are our shared interests in leftist-socialist politics and the study of popular culture and everyday life.

Dealing With Japan

Joe Sartelle
For leftists in particular, there are compelling reasons for learning from Japan.

Gender Slumming

Annalee Newitz
Transgenderists, like other minority groups, are divided on the question of whether their culture is 'natural' or deeply bound up with social and historical factors.

Representing America

Ron Alcalay
I'm tired of the cynical view that we can't make a difference, that we're all just hibernating in front of our 841 little golden lights onscreen.

The Critique from Within

Charlie Bertsch
What does it mean to be a community? It means working together. It also means being willing to acknowledge that members of the community have differences of opinion.

Three Deaths in Vancouver

Stephen Arod Shirreffs
To survive, I have to learn to live with a permanent foregrounded sorrow. I prefer to wrap that sorrow in exotic cloth.