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Defying Gravity Defies Sci-Fi Conventions

By Gabriel Mckee

…s been chosen to lead the Antares mission. A Hindu, he believes that space travel is his dharma. But when he’s stricken by a mysterious ailment, he’s switched out and Donner takes over, and two concepts of destiny— Donner’s secular instinct and Sharma’s spiritual vocation — are put at odds. Sharma’s response to being taken off the mission is a bit unbalanced, but rooted in his faith — he climbs into a spacesuit and sits on the hull of the ship wit…

The Gospel Gestalt: From Joyful Noise to Whitney Houston

By Douglas Harrison

…Thanks to the largesse of a rich white widow (G.G.), the choir is able to travel to L.A. to compete in the national championship. And thanks to the widow’s prodigal grandson and his visionary insight into gospel reappropriations of Usher and Beyoncé in place of Vi’s outmoded traditionalism, the choir wins the competition. Thank Gawd for white people! Yet viewed another way, the movie manages, however blunderingly, something like a post-racial tak…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…The problem is that this commodity, data, like controlled substances, can travel the public information highways, too often for illegal purposes. Were information technology theorists to apply themselves to the task of bringing out the social reality of social media networks, it would make it easier to muster concerted, collective political and/or legal action against them. Otherwise, these terrorizing atrocities just pass as the price paid for S…

Do Not Have Sex with This Man

By Sarah Sentilles

…ward despair. It is not the present I am privileging. It is the future of this fragile planet we call home. A planet we share with other living beings. I can hear birds now as I type this—cranes, flying, their v-shape slicing through the air, beating their wings to travel away from me. Listen. Can you hear them? Can you hear the spider spinning a web at the corner of my window? Can you hear the elephants, the polar bears, the blue whales, the wolv…

Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ine-drawing about the capacity of cakes (or flowers, or hairstyles, or any number of other products) to be expressive may have the consequence of drawing out more clearly the conflict at the heart of Masterpiece Cakeshop. As Justice Kennedy rightly noted, the case is about “the proper reconciliation” of, on the one hand, “the authority of a State… to protect the rights and dignity of gay persons” and, on the other, “the right of all persons to exe…

What Does the Muslim World Really Want?

By Becky Garrison

…the film’s director acknowledged that lack of funds rendered him unable to travel and film in Asia and Africa. So while the survey covers over 35 countries, he focused his filming in the Middle East. While one can understand these economic constraints, the lack of African and Asian Muslims featured in the film serves as yet another reminder that we still tend to equate Arab with Muslim despite the stats that indicate otherwise. Also, most of the p…

Falwell’s Fall Was Unrelated to the Anti-Science, Racism, and Patriarchy Trifecta that Built Liberty

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…workers, on their harassed patients, and on women without the resources to travel to states or countries that offer abortion services. The trifecta that Weyrich, Falwell, and their allies bet on appears headed toward major stumbles this fall. Science-aversion can be fatal in the midst of a pandemic that’s now surging in states that are crucial to the aging, white evangelical Republican base. The country has a good chance of electing an administrat…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…n it happen before, and I thought I’d see it again in Vegas, made plans to travel. Then I heard “heat advisory,” and I remembered a Trump rally I’d reported back in 2016, Arizona, hours in line, no shade, no water, sweat dripping, seniors wilting into ambulances, an old woman pulled away in what looked like a children’s wagon. So I watch from afar, in rainy Vermont, on one of the lesser rightwing channels. It begins, just like in real life, in lin…

The Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline

By Joseph Laycock

Last week, Raw Story featured an unusual summer travel spot—The Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Although skeptics have dismissed the museum as “full of off-the-shelf Halloween junk, dolls and toys, books you could buy at any bookstore,” it’s an important case study in lived religion and the free exchange of ideas between pop culture and paranormal belief. The Warrens (Ed passed in 2006) were infamous demonologists whose greatest “case fi…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts in Australian society. Opposition was concentrated in suburbs with high numbers of working-class immigrants on the suburban fringes, including locations popular with Islamic communities. Brazil: Conservative Christian activists protest gender theorist Judith Butler At Inside Higher Ed, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler describes to Scott Jaschik her experience earlier this month in Brazil, where “she faced an ugly protest at which s…