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ferda ataman

FerdaAtaman

Mich irritiert, dass manche sich wundern, dass nach BlackLivesMatter 2020 oder dem (klugen) Buch von Alice Hasters "noch immer" rassistische Sendungen & Artikel in Medien erscheinen oder dass "#Rassismus gegen

Idzie Desmarais

Idzie

As the conversation around abolition begins to include schooling, I see people wondering what could exist instead. In this culture many have come to believe that schooling is irreplaceable, a

Teresa M. Bejan

tmbejan

1) Last week, I made the case for ‘free speech’ as parrhesia — the Ancient Greek word for ‘saying it all’.https://twitter.com/tmbejan/status/1283732314657300480 2) I argued that critics of ‘cancel culture’ are

Jenny Bhatt

jennybhatt

Appreciate this essay by .@curvi_k on mangoes and diasporic South Asian literature. And, so we remember, this is part of an ongoing, larger literary discourse as follows. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/curvi_k/status/1358803554945937408 Mohsin Hami

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

Have you heard about the time Frederick Douglass Dr. Mary Edwards WalkerMary Ann Shadd CaryBelva Lockwood occupied the Washington, D.C. Board of Elections? #DCStatehood thread It’s April 14, 1871.DC’s first

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Nice of @NYMag to give @nicholsonbaker8 a 5000 word marketing package for his most recent nonfiction book...which is partly about lab accidents in the 1950s.https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1346083776594636804 "I hadn’t interviewed s

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

SENDING OUT AN S.O.S.: As we fight an unseen enemy—the intentional destruction of truth—I turn to Dr. Joseph Pierre (@psychunseen) for his sage advice on thwarting an authoritarian takeover. Dr.

Dr. Kristina Killgrove

DrKillgrove

New today is an awesome book, “A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution,” edited by @desilva_jerry and pub’d by @PrincetonUPress. In

M L Clark -- en periodo sabático / on sabbatical!

M_L_Clark

Clarkesworld read-through time! September's a strong issue, w/ most stories harmonized around themes of identity in diff. contexts that tend to dissemble all notions of a coherent self. (Even the

Wells King

wellscking

In my latest for @AmerCompass & @amconmag I review Trump's policy record and issue a warning to conservatives: beware embracing or disavowing the Trumpian program wholesale. What was the Trump

Emily Brand

EJBrand

It’s publication week for The Fall of the House of Byron paperback! To celebrate, allow me to introduce some of the book's star-studded supporting cast with a Byronic entanglement &

doc, starring billy ray cyrus

docsquiddy

can we stop making movies where a character has an innate noble quality by birth? or magic blood? or anything like that? like, I enjoyed wonder woman, the movie; chris

Kyle Chayka

chaykak

My first book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism is on shelves today from @bloomsburypub! You can order it here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-longing-for-less-9781635572100/ But I also wanted to do a thread

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

For hundreds of years, Europeans ground up Egyptian mummies to use them as paint . . . and swallow them as medicine. How were they able to do this, and

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

I am sceptical that the university of Edinburgh has much evidence of a building being named after the famous 18th century Enlightenment philosopher David Hume causing 'distress' to contemporary students.

Simon McGarr

Tupp_Ed

I’m sorry to say I think there is reason to again be concerned about the data rights of children adopted out of Mother and Baby homes, despite the belated acceptance

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