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23-year-old Shauna Taylor is proud to own an original piece by Damien Hirst. If you want to have a look, she’s showing it within the pages of Garage magazine—a new publication edited by Dasha Zhukova, who runs a gallery in Moscow and used to edit Pop, the biannual fashion bible. A word of warning: Shauna isn’t flaunting one of Hirst’s trendy spot paintings....

Gloria Anzaldúa lived a pedal-to-the-metal life, refusing to deny any aspects of her dynamic identity and writing her own page in the great book of queer/feminist/critical theory by tearing out 20 others. Her writings are enactments of the “borderland/frontera” concept that she pioneered; her books fly between prose and poetry, English and Spanish, and any number of personal and theoretical...

• Have you been reading Ladydrawers’ interview comic with Alison Bechdel? Catch up with part two of three over at Truth Out.
• Women’s Media Center writes about Ibtihaj Muhammad’s journey to become the first women to compete for the U.S. Olympic team wearing a headscarf....

On the surface, there is nothing connecting the four episodes that aired on NBC this week. Annie’s friends helped her move, and tweeted about it. Ben and Leslie’s attempt to stay friends had them waging war on each other at a Model UN. And Dwight sexually harrassed Jim. Does it matter what Whitney did? (Fine, she played basketball.)

But if we had to stretch for a...