Through a careful reading of a mid-20th-century button imposed on cross-dressers in Hawaii in light of recent U.S. policies regarding gender, Meyer finds hope in reversing discourse.

Brock devises critical technocultural discourse analysis to explore Black digital identity, Black digital practices, and Black digital artifacts, demonstrating how Black folk have made the internet a “Black space," the contours of which have become visible through sociality and distributed digital practice while also decentering whiteness as the default internet identity. 

Cultural studies has turned out to be, in retrospect, a weirdly thorough success that is influencing the creation and reception of culture everywhere in the world, especially outside the academy.

Christian cultural practice in the Iberian Peninsula belies a lingering paganism in the Peninsula well after we assume the total defeat of organized pagan religion: you just have to know where to look.

January was apparently Andrew Ross month over at Dissent.  Two articles, Jeffrey J. Williams's "How to be an Intellectual: The Cases of Richard Rorty and Andrew Ross" (in the Winter 2011 issue of the magazine) and Kevin Mattson's "Cult Stud Mugged" (an online original), track Ross's evolution from a so-called cult-stud into someone more akin to an academic labor reporter.