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'Disability Intimacy' starts a long-overdue conversation

Editor Alice Wong refuses to shut out the 'other' in this collection of essays, poems and stories on topics such as BDSM, queer love and intergenerational relationships.


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Husband of Florida woman Ana Knezevich, who vanished in Spain, arrested at Miami International Airport
Spanish and federal authorities on Saturday arrested David Knezevich, husband of missing Florida woman Ana Maria Knezevich, at Miami International Airport.
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The family of Irvo Otieno criticizes move to withdraw murder charges for now against 5 deputies
A VA judge has approved a prosecutor's request to 'effectively drop for now' charges against 5 sheriff's deputies in connection with the death in 2023 of Irvo Otieno.
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Hamas says it approves of cease-fire proposal, but Israel has not signed off
Israel has not yet officially commented on Hamas' response to the reported ceasefire proposal.
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Floodwaters start receding around Houston area as recovery begins following rescues and evacuations
After days of heavy rainfall that led to hundreds of rescues, Houston area floodwaters have started to recede and residents have begun to return to their homes to assess damages.
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Sarah Ferguson's daughter Princess Beatrice gives update on mom's health after cancer diagnosis
Sarah Ferguson announced in January that she was diagnosed with skin cancer, and now her daughter Princess Beatrice is giving an update on her mother's health.
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Julia Fox and Law Roach team up for a sustainable fashion competition show
Julia Fox, alongside Law Roach, is a host and judge of 'OMG Fashun,' a new fashion competition show where contestants are challenged to upcycle fashion and reuse materials to create unique looks.
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US Soldier Detained in Russia: Everything We Know
According to multiple reports, the U.S. soldier had been stationed in South Korea and traveled to Russia on his own.
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Colorado teen killed in Korean War identified more than 70 years later
A 19-year-old U.S. soldier from Colorado has been accounted for more than 70 years after being declared missing in action in the Korean War.
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Netanyahu Told to Resign at Holocaust Rememberance Day Event
A protester called for the Israeli prime minister's resignation at the nation's largest Holocaust memorial.
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Candy Recalled in 17 States Over Salmonella Risk
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Columbia Cancels Main Commencement Following Weeks of Pro-Palestinian Protests
In the absence of the ceremony scheduled for May 15, the university says it will center celebrations around pre-planned, smaller scale “Class Days” and school-wide ceremonies.
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It’s Not Just This Year’s Met Gala Theme. All Art Is About the Passage of Time
For centuries, art has represented the passage of time by depicting the social and political dynamics of American society.
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US soldier arrested in Russia, US official says
A U.S. soldier was detained in Russia on Thursday, May 2, according to a U.S. official.
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A U.S. soldier has been detained in Russia, officials confirmed.
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Ex-CEO Howard Schultz Says Starbucks Needs to Refocus on Coffee as Sales Struggle
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says the company’s leaders should spend more time in stores and focus on coffee drinks.
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This Is Helicopter Protesting
“I am a professor! I am a professor of economics!” said Caroline Fohlin, face down, pinned to the ground by police at Emory University, in Atlanta, during campus demonstrations in late April. Her glasses had been thrown from her face, her head knocked against the concrete. While Fohlin’s words might be taken to suggest entitlement—a belief that her faculty status should confer immunity—I heard something else: an appeal to neutrality. It seemed to me that Fohlin was not in the quad to join the students in their protest of the war in Gaza: She was just trying to look out for them.Other faculty members have been roughed up too. Video showing the arrest of Emory’s philosophy-department chair, Noëlle McAfee, went viral. So did a clip of the Dartmouth historian Annelise Orleck getting knocked over and zip-tied. At Washington University in St. Louis, where I am on faculty, Steve Tamari, a history professor at nearby Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, was filmed being tackled and dragged by police; Tamari says he was hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand. During a protest at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the sociology professor Samer Alatout was detained; he says police inflicted the head gash that was visible in images circulated on social media.Though sometimes called “student protests,” students are only some of those participating in the campus demonstrations and occupations of the past three weeks. My university reported that 100 people were arrested on April 27, of which 23 were students and at least four were employees. Various roles are represented at the protests, and those roles bear different meanings. The faculty members whose images have been shared most widely aren’t among the protesters so much as beside them; they’ve been watching over students as their guardians, instead of marching as their peers. This is helicopter protesting, fit for the helicopter-parent generation.Following her arrest at Emory, Fohlin’s attorney told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she “was not a protester,” but had just come down from her office out of concern for students on the quad. In so doing, she saw authorities wrestling an individual to the ground and approached to intervene: “What are you doing?” she asked the police, appearing to tap one on the back before another officer grabbed her. McAfee told a similar story in a local-television interview: “I saw something going on … A bunch of police had tackled a young person, and threw them on the ground, and were just pummeling them,” she said. McAfee, whose scholarship connects feminist theory to political life, acknowledged the gendered role of protector that she felt she was playing. “The mother in me said, Stop, stop,” she told reporters.The role of protector isn’t limited to women, of course. Before his detention, Tamari can be seen filming the protesters around him, perhaps as a means of documentation. In a statement issued later, Tamari positioned himself as a participant, but also a peacekeeper: “I joined the student-led protests on Saturday to stop the genocide and support and protect the students.” Alatout, the University of Wisconsin professor, expressed a similar ambition: “My and other faculty and staff’s position is that we are defending the students’ rights,” he said. “To demonstrate and to protest, and that we are defending them.”Protection has been a theme of the protests. Members of Congress have pressured university presidents to demonstrate that they have done enough to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism. Disputes about the intention and etymology of campus chants and calls for Intifada, mixed with political motivations quite separate from the real operation of campus life, are also set against a years-long trend to cast safety as a matter of sensation, and sensation as equal to harm.One timely example: After the Columbia University protests, some law students reportedly called for exams to be canceled, because the events of the week had left them “irrevocably shaken.” To feel unsafe is to be unsafe in the contemporary campus scene, and one’s perception of a slight, or even an act of violence, has become akin to its reality. Professors have played a role in advancing that ethos in their classrooms and offices, in part out of political empathy, in part because they truly care about students and their well-being, and in part because their institutions now demand it.That situation has now circled back on itself. At UCLA last week, the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and other organizations organized a rally on campus—a counterprotest, really, to the pro-Palestinian encampments—to “advocate for the protection of Jewish students,” as David N. Myers, one of the school’s history professors, put it. According to Myers, another, more agitated group of counterprotesters was also present, and came close to instigating a brawl with the anti-war activists. Myers wrote that he and other faculty “inserted ourselves between the two groups to serve as a buffer.” A few days later, the situation did turn violent, and some among the original student protesters were beaten by a mob, as the police stood aside. At first, police action was creating danger, then its absence did the same. Amid the confusion of today’s campus protests, it can be hard to predict who will be vulnerable to whom at any given time, and when protection can or should be provided.Clearly students there and then badly needed help, of a sort that faculty could not reasonably provide. In the current college climate, concern for safety is a constant, but rarely modulates above a steady background noise. At the protests, as during the school year, teachers mostly offer their protection as a means of staving off much lesser harms than those delivered by stick-wielding thugs. At Columbia, one professor urged news cameramen not to film students inside the encampment, according to The New York Times, seemingly to guard the students’ reputations.Columbia professors have been involved in student protests in the past, but they didn’t position themselves like this, as purveyors of moral support. Instead, they played the role of mediators. In 1968, when students occupied several buildings across campus, faculty at one point physically positioned themselves between the protesters and the police—in the interest of bringing the matter to a close. A faculty statement from the time read, in part, “As members of the faculty, we are determined to do everything within our power rapidly to resume the full life of this institution in the firm expectation that our proposals will permit a climate to prevail that will once again allow reason, judgment and order to reign.” That sentiment bears far more resemblance to the goals of today’s administrators and politicians—the restoration of order and resumption of business as usual on campus—than it does to the goals of professors who have intervened in recent weeks to keep students safe.Today’s protests might look similar to those previous ones when viewed in pictures, but their context is transformed. Students and parents have spent years demanding more and better services on campus, including services to help students feel and be safe and comfortable. Universities have swelled into giant bureaucracies in response to regulatory demands and competition. College life itself, especially at elite private universities, is now consumed by professionalization more than self-discovery, thanks in part to the astronomical cost of attendance. Campuses have become more diverse, making today’s faculty motivations different and more varied than those driving the (whiter, maler) Columbia faculty of ’68, who yearned for reason’s victory. And politics has become more identitarian, giving selfhood greater sway.In this new context, professors and students have developed a relationship of protection above all others. Faculty have been converted from instructors into personal coaches. Much is gained in this change, including its expression at campus protests; professors such as McAfee and Myers have shown bravery on behalf of students. And yet, something is also lost: By inserting ourselves into students’ lives as guardians of their welfare, we risk failing to protect an important aspect of their intellectual, political, and personal development—namely, their independence.Recounting the intervention that had led to her arrest at Dartmouth, Annelise Orleck reported saying to the police, “Leave our students alone. They’re students. They’re not criminals.” Like some other faculty, Orleck drew a line at calling in law enforcement, a choice she said was unprecedented in her 34 years at the college. But since Columbia set the precedent to do so, policing itself has become a subject of campus demonstrations. Participants may well be risking arrest by design. At the same time, students seem ambivalent about the degree to which they really are at odds with authority, rather than reliant upon it. At Columbia, one was mocked after demanding “humanitarian aid” in the form of food and water after taking over Hamilton Hall. “I guess it’s ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students,” she said.What, exactly, is the nature of that obligation? Attending college is an American coming-of-age ritual, and a means of giving students room to figure out how to live and act in the world. Orleck’s reminder that students are just students undercuts that mission, in a way. It’s both protective and infantilizing. It strips students of their power before they’ve even had a chance to test it out. None of us wants our students or our colleagues to be harmed. But there’s value in learning how it feels to take risks, and to reap their rewards.
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Miss USA suddenly resigns, urges people to prioritize mental health
Miss USA Noelia Voigt said she's stepping down and relinquishing her crown.
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California Pet Owners Warned After Toxic Substance Found in Lake
Water officials will begin treatment on Tuesday.
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Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée rips jokes made about late tight end on Tom Brady roast special
Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée took issue with some of the jokes that were made at the late New England Patriots tight end's expense on Sunday night.
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Warriors News: Klay Thompson Interested in Joining Surprise East Playoff Contender
According to NBA insider Shams Charania, Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson and an Eastern playoff contender have "mutual interest."
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Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Rejected: 'Not Buying My Vote'
For some Americans, Biden's Middle East stance has blocked any excitement they'd feel over student loan forgiveness here in America.
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Lewis Hamilton on chase for another F1 championship, future beyond racing
As Formula One's popularity grows in the U.S., Lewis Hamilton is marking a significant change in his career.
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NY v. Trump: DA's witness testifies Trump did not direct him on Cohen repayments
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How to watch the Indiana Pacers vs. New York Knicks NBA Playoffs game tonight: Game 1 livestream options, more
Here's how to watch the Indiana Pacers vs. New York Knicks in Game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals.
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Twyla Tharp dance will open 700-seat amphitheater at New York's Little Island park in June
Choreographer Twyla Tharp’s 'How Long Blues' will open the amphitheater on Manhattan's Little Island park on June 6, marking Tharp's first full-length work in 10 years.
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What is a backdoor Roth IRA and how does it help high earners save for retirement?
Saving for retirement is a big concern for many Americans, even those who are considered high-earners. But sometimes, if your income is considered too high, you might miss out on some great savings options. That's where something called a backdoor Roth IRA comes in. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger has more.
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Best record players of 2024: 5 editor-approved turntables for vinyl lovers
"Put your records on, tell me your favorite song."
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Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler out as WWE commentator after three decades
Jerry "The King" Lawler's reign has come to an end.
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Tyson Foods’ shares tumble more than 9% as inflation crimps demand for meat
Shares of meatpacking giant Tyson plunged more than 9% — the stock’s worst day since August — after the company said persistent inflation weakened consumer appetites for beef, pork and chicken purchases, biting into profits in the second quarter. At grocery stores, shoppers are prioritizing essential kitchen staples over discretionary categories thanks to persistent inflation...
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Owner Heading Out on Friday Night Gets Judged by Dog: 'Appalled'
The dog's eyes were bulging out of his head with confusion and judgment.
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Republican Trump Pressured to Change Election Is Voting for Joe Biden
Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan said "it's disappointing to watch an increasing number of Republicans fall in line behind" Trump.
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Kristi Noem’s increasingly bizarre Kim Jong Un story
Noem’s book tour is a testament to the GOP’s Trump-era push to never back down and focus instead on planting seeds of doubt.
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The Internet's Surprising Reaction to Kim Kardashian Being Booed at Tom Brady's Roast
Tom Brady wasn't the only person jeered during his Netflix roast.
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Gisele Bündchen Becomes the Center of Jokes at Ex Tom Brady's Netflix Roast
Gisele Bundchen was a hot topic among the roasters at 'The Roast of Tom Brady'.
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Campus protests cause some colleges to change commencement plans
Columbia University announced Monday it will be canceling its main commencement ceremony amid protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Columbia is the latest school forced to change their plans following a wave of protests. CBS News correspondent Lana Zak is at Columbia with more.
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Ariana Madix Breaks Strict No Contact Rule And Sobs To Tom Sandoval In Bombshell ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Reunion Teaser: “I Just Want You Away From Me”
It was an emotional day for Madix and Sandoval.
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How to watch the Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Denver Nuggets NBA Playoffs game tonight: Game 2 livestream options
Here's how and when to watch Game 2 of the Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Denver Nuggets NBA Playoffs series tonight.
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Explainer: What are tactical nuclear weapons and why is Russia training with them now?
Russia announced its military would run drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, which are for use on the battlefield rather than for leveling cities, amid the ongoing Ukraine war.
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Jennifer Garner and look-alike daughter Violet grab lunch in LA
A source told Page Six that the actress has been finding comfort in her kids following the recent loss of her beloved father.
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Letitia James Asks Trump Judge for More Time
James asked Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a conservative Trump appointee, for an extension in a lawsuit out of Texas.
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Formula 1 champ Charles Leclerc is buying a waterfront home in Miami
Leclerc will be among the new homeowners at the Edition Residences in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood, slated to be move-in ready by 2027.
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Here’s when kids eat the most sugar — and it’s not after dinner
It's not the late-night snacking you have to worry about with kids, experts say.
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Madonna draws 1.6 million fans to Brazilian beach
The last show of the pop icon's "Celebration" retrospective tour brought over a million and a half fans to Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana Beach on Saturday night.
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Perjury Claim Is New Twist in Karen Read Murder Trial
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesThe case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly running over her cop boyfriend and leaving him for dead in a blizzard, took another turn on Monday when a prosecution witness was accused of lying.”It’s very clear to us that Katie McLaughlin perjured herself,” defense lawyer David Yannetti told Judge Beverly Cannone before jurors entered the courtroom for the second week of the murder trial.Prosecutors allege that Read hit her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV after a night out drinking and abandoned him there. Defense attorneys and Read’s fans, however, insist she is being “framed” for O’Keefe’s murder in an elaborate police cover-up.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Eating whole lemons and peel is the new main squeeze for fruit foodies — here’s why
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Lawmakers introduce legislation holding UNRWA accountable for joining, assisting Hamas terror attack in Israel
Lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation to return American tax dollars that went to UNRWA amid reports its employees assisted Hamas and its attack on Israel.
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Yelp’s One-Star Reviews Are Deranged. I Tried to Track Down the People Who Leave Them.
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