This crass advertisement for a “unique luxury resort” in Las Vegas assaulted my eyeballs from the pages of the January issue of Architectural Digest. The photo and copy (“I love hard labor – I could watch it all day”) imply that “enjoying the finer things in life is only part of the fun; up here, […]
About Susan Legere
Special Delivery: Mexican-in-a-Box
I found myself an unprepared witness to a classist/racist “joke” where and when I least expected it. Should I have intervened? Is there a way to turn such ugliness into a “teachable moment”? One afternoon I was waiting in line at my university’s mailroom behind a rowdy group of undergraduate men. The students—mostly white and […]
