2012

  • The Last Laugh? Theologizing Humor and Joy With the Cardinal and Colbert

    My attendance at the much discussed “The Cardinal and Colbert” extravaganza here at Fordham University last Friday made for rare moment in the life of a grad student: being plopped down in the midst of several thousand hooting, hollering, maroon-shirted… Continue reading

  • “Look, a White!” Mitt Romney Edition

    (This post represents my second attempt to shed a light on whiteness.  To read about the background and inspiration for this project, click here and read the sections entitled, “Look, a Negro” and “Look, a white.”) This past weekend, author… Continue reading

  • “Look, A White!” Ann Romney Edition

    “Look, a Negro!” In his classic text, Black Skin, White Masks, Martiniquan anti-colonial activist and intellectual Frantz Fanon famously narrates an incident in which a young white boy points at him, proclaiming, “Look, a Negro!”  Growing ever more frightened, the… Continue reading

  • Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Become a Feminist

    (OK. I’m going to warn you, this post is long. If you’re strapped for time, my suggestion is to read the text of “Punk Prayer,” and then skip down to “First,“. Thanks in advance for your patience.) By now, I’m… Continue reading

  • Trauma, Suffering and Childbirth

    The trauma of sexual abuse and rape benefit from a clear understanding of suffering as bestowing no kind of benefit to the victim and as entirely opposed by God. Yet, the suffering of childbirth is a different case. But, this… Continue reading

  • Echoes of Jim Crow: The War On Drugs and Presidential Politics

    In her sensational work, The New Jim Crow, civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander uncovers the manifold parallels between the contemporary regime of mass incarceration and the era of Jim and Jane Crow.  We at WIT have reflected upon the racially unjust character… Continue reading

  • “Fagbug:” Beetle-Driving Grad Student Confronts Homophobia On the Road and On Film

    Summer leisure time or attempts to beat the heat may find some of us looking for on-screen recommendations. If you have already exhausted Netflix’s store of Dawson’s Creek in all six seasons of its teenage soap operatic glory (that was… Continue reading

  • Work and Family Balance: Some Open Questions

    Last week I wrote about Anne-Marie’s Slaughter’s piece “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” In this post, I attempted to highlight the problematic gender assumptions undergirding Slaughter’s argument, the most important one being the uncritical claim that women qua… Continue reading

  • Feminism lied to me!

    Well, I suppose it’s time to say something about the recently penned, (in)famous Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter. In this article, Slaughter explains how, as the first female director of policy planning at the State… Continue reading