A photography student from Beausoleil First Nation in Ontario is hoping to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada through her art.
Reads, Listens
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
👓 A Judge Just Ruled Thousands Of Florida Voters Get Another Chance For Their Ballots To Be Counted | BuzzFeed News
The ruling sides with Democrats, who said a policy of tossing out valid ballots with signature issues was unconstitutional.
👓 The Vaporware Presidency | The Weekly Standard
Step 1: Propose something ridiculous. Step 2: Cause chaos but don't deliver it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
What a great turn of phrase for this administration. Good job Mr. Last!
🎧 Season 3: MEN Trailer | Scene on Radio
Scene on Radio opens its Season 3 series, MEN, with this preview. Host John Biewen introduces the series with series co-host Celeste Headlee. Music Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. Theme music by Alex Weston. Music and production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.
👓 Kaley Cuoco Reveals She’s Totally Going To Take A Big Bang Theory Prop From The Set | CINEMABLEND
The Big Bang Theory is currently pushing through a few more months of production before the cast and crew on set will say their final goodbyes.
I think I’d like an autographed copy of the Aldrich catalog that’s been shifting around the set for a few years.
👓 Melania Trump leads new round of White House firing and fury | CNN
In this White House, no one knows when the ax will fall or who will be swinging it.
🎧 Episode 43: Losing Ground (Seeing White, extra) | Scene on Radio
For Eddie Wise, owning a hog farm was a lifelong dream. In middle age, he and his wife, Dorothy, finally got a farm of their own. But they say that over the next twenty-five years, the U.S. government discriminated against them because of their race, and finally drove them off the land. Their story, by John Biewen, was produced in collaboration with Reveal.
It’s heartbreaking to hear the individual stories of those who were discriminated against. It’s even worse to consider the thousands of others whose stories aren’t told.
👓 Even in the Senate, 2018 looks like other wave years for Democrats | CNN
Some Republicans will argue that 2018 wasn't a wave for Democrats because they expanded their Senate majority.
🎧 Episode 45: Transformation (Seeing White, Part 14) | Scene on Radio
The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Robin DiAngelo, and William “Sandy” Darity, Jr.
We really need a lot more ways for people to become engaged and help to fix these issues.
👓 For the love of the blog | Ben Holliday
Ben Holliday (hollidazed.co.uk)Ending my experiment with blogging more on Medium.
👓 How Google and Amazon Got So Big Without Being Regulated | WIRED
Internet companies used to grow big and die—fast. But now a few of them are huge and entrenched, because regulators didn't foresee their dominance.
👓 CNN sues Trump to get Jim Acosta’s press pass restored | POLITICO
The lawsuit marks a stark escalation in the president's feud with the media.
👓 Florida and Georgia: the super-tight midterm elections, explained | Vox
Where things stand as votes continue to be counted — and recounted — in three major statewide races now that Arizona has been called.
👓 Voting Laws Roundup 2018 | Brennan Center for Justice
Voting legislation continues to be a subject of state legislators’ attention. So far in 2018, lawmakers have introduced bills to restrict voting in eight states. But all of them, as well as 14 other states, are considering laws that would expand access to the polls.
👓 Peggy McIntosh | Wikipedia
Peggy McIntosh (born November 7, 1934) is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and Senior Research Associate of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for its first twenty-five years. She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, and professional development of teachers. In 1988, she published the article "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies".[2] This analysis, and its shorter version, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1989), pioneered putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of power, gender, race, class and sexuality in the United States. Both papers rely on personal examples of unearned advantage that McIntosh says she experienced in her lifetime, especially from 1970 to 1988. McIntosh encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages and disadvantages as parts of immense and overlapping systems of power. She has been criticized for concealing her considerable, personal class privilege and displacing it onto the collective category of race.
Definitely want to read her Invisible Knapsack work.
Interesting mention:
With Dr. Nancy Hill, McIntosh co-founded the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, which, for thirty-five years, annually gave “money and a room of one’s own” to ten women who were not supported by other institutions and were working on projects in the arts and many other fields.
Another example of Virginia Woolf’s idea being put into practice in the wild. (I added a link to the Wikipedia page to make it more obvious.)