#Essay

I have a little addition/tangent to @billybragg's Essex essay on radio 3. I've been working on a project with V&A Dundee on dundonian history. One afternoon we walked around Lochee
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Reading the recent English translation of Mbembe's *Politiques de l'inimitié* because my French was not good enough to really process the 2016 French version, due to Mbembe's lyricism and theoretical
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College Board said "Reducing and Simplifying Demands on Students" by killing the Subject tests and optional essay. I argue its a consolidation of their product line.https://lnkd.in/gVY8npr  I think a quick
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Start by working together to simply generate questions— a whole page of questions. Then ask small groups of students to organize the questions into themes. Students then select 1 question
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"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become consciousone begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." -James Baldwin. His seminal
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Earlier this week I was accused of virtue signaling by a prominent Very Serious Journalist. In turn, I suggest we talk about vice-signaling. How not caring about injustices is the
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How to find a mentor, in 3 easy steps, without making a fool of yourself #1 - Work on something interesting. Just by picking a unique project/mission, you will get
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Leaving Cert 2021 - A thread:We know that the looming school year is going to be very hard, with lots of disruptions. We need to plan for that NOW. Even
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For GCSE Literature, I explicitly teach students how to write and what to include in the **introduction** for each question. We rehearse this a lot. A short THREAD on why
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At some point this misuse of Tagore's essay needs to be called out. It was penned in 1917 against the backdrop of World War I (1914-18) when politically created Western
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I gave my professor like 5 academic sources on trans identities in pre Nazi Germany for my essay proposal and he replies back : there were no 'transgenders' in Germany,
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My concern if Joe Biden wins the presidency is that the white liberals who spent the Trump era crying  “This isn’t my America” (sidenote: WHAT FUCKING AMERICA HAVE YOU BEEN
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Trump might be losing, and Biden might win,know this: white supremacist patriarchy is the real winner in America. So let me wreck your party and tell you that even if
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My very first tattoo was of Sekhmet, the ancient Egyptian goddess, on my right inner forearm. I wrote a poem about Sekhmet and revolutionhttps://www.feministgiant.com/p/sekhmets-tits-and-other-poetry?r=aywth&utm_campaign=post&utm_me
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I've been meaning to write something about this @aaronsibarium essay but I'll just link to it today as one of the most nuanced explications of certain worst-case scenarios:https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/weimarization-ameri
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The Essay Mill (Prohibition) BillThread (w/ Plain Text) A few weeks ago, myself and the leads from the Academic Integrity Collective met with the Former Universities Minister, Chris Skidmore
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