Mass Shooting and the Spectacle of Whiteness

Lynching as spectacle 

Fredric Jameson once noted that déjà vu is possible for an experience one has never had: postmodernism is an amnesia of eternal returns. I remember when I witnessed the unfolding of the Columbine massacre on CNN – the event that culturally marked the beginning of an era of school shootings – it ...
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Mass Shooting and the Spectacle of Whiteness

Surrogacy and Abortion

Whose body, whose baby?

When the biological parents seek to compel the surrogate mother to have an abortion, she makes the argument that she should be able to make decisions regarding her own body. On the other hand, the biological parents argue that since the fetus is formed from their genetic material, it is ...
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