New Polity is very excited to announce the opening of its Make Shop in Steubenville—a place where locals can get access to productive property, learn new skills, and receive business support in selling what they make. Mike Sullivan, local contractor and former president of Catholics United for the Faith, sits down with Jacob Imam to discuss the shop as well as a few ideas about work and ownership.
No Collapse in the Garden of Eden | Good Soil
Small farming is a living critique of industrial capitalism, a rebellion against tyrannies established through widespread fear of and the presumption of scarcity . . . and a tasty way to live. Shawn and Beth Dougherty discuss—and romanticize!—their garden of Eden against the ideologies of modernity.
No Weeds in the Garden of Eden | Good Soil
Gender Trouble V: Gender Identity Does Not Exist | The Politics of Gender
Gender Trouble IV: Butler Against Origin Stories | The Politics of Gender
Gender Trouble III: Constructing Reality | The Politics of Gender
Gender is a social construct. And so is sex. And so is everything else. Maria Brandell and Marc Barnes finish the first chapter of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and try to show the difference between academic postmodernism and the naive identity politics of popular transgender and queer identity construction.