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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Mr. Milei is an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Trump and the MAGA movement, and his fortunes are seen by the Trump administration as a way to bolster American influence in South America and counter China’s push into the region.

      That says a lot about him

    1. Under immigration rules, ICE officials should have made him available for his scheduled hearing before an immigration judge, where he would have had the chance to contest his deportation. The judge would have decided whether to allow a deportation, which can be triggered by a violation of immigration law, such as entering the country illegally.

      ICE is behaving inhumanely

    1. The election was also in many ways a referendum on Mr. Wilders and his party. Mr. Wilders has said he wants to end immigration from Muslim countries, tax head scarves and ban the Quran. His party, known as the PVV, has also called for a halt to asylum.

      That is immoral and not okay, I hope he does not win

    1. Although a handful of left-wing voices have participated in debates for some time, few, if any, have had the same reach as their conservative counterparts.

      Conservatives know how to appeal to people's emotions, which matters when making change

    1. About 20 people, including children, died in the Haitian community of Petit-Goâve as a result of the storm, according to Ronald Louis, a technical manager for the Municipal Civil Protection Committee. Sudden floods pushed the Digue River over its banks around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, flooding more than 160 homes, he said. Another dozen people remain missing.

      Children dying always hits home

    2. Roofs flew off buildings and houses collapsed in urban and rural areas, said the governor of Cuba’s Granma Province, Yanetsy Terry Gutiérrez. She described an “interminable” night and morning and shared photos on social media of an uprooted tree, a swollen river and buildings partially submerged in muddy floodwaters.

      I can't imagine your home being destroyed, homes are full of memories, books, etc. The grief and pain along with that, I do not understand this personally and I empathize.

    1. There were many different pre-cinematic devices using light sources to project images that paved the way for cinema— from the camera obscura as early as the 6th century to the magic lantern in the 18th century. The camera obscura, also often known as a pinhole camera, was basically a box with a hole on its side that reproduced a naturally occurring optical illusion. Light from an image set in front of the camera obscura passes through the hole, reproducing and inverting the image within the opposite surface inside the pinhole camera. The magic lantern, on the other hand, was one of the earliest projectors of images onto a ‘screen’ or wall. It used a concave mirror to project light from a light source through a rectangular sheet of glass or paper containing the image to be screened. A lens at the front of the lantern would then focus the image.

      this is very fascinating

  2. Oct 2025
  3. sk-sagepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu sk-sagepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu
    1. The ruling class, according to this theory, propagates an ideology that justifies its status and makes it difficult for ordinary people to recognize that they are being exploited and victimized.

      This is how white supremacy lives on

    2. This is not to say that there were no Marxists; rather, the Marxists were always “voices crying in the wilderness”—not very many people paid heed to these voices or took them seriously.

      Now when people say "Marxism" it's a buzzword against anyone who want equal rights.

    3. Von Franz suggests that the anima has a positive side, however, that enables men to do such things as find the right marriage partners and explore their inner values, leading them to more profound insights into their own psyches. The animus functions in much the same way for women. It is formed, von Franz suggests, essentially by the woman’s father, and can have positive and negative influences. It can lead to coldness, obstinacy, and hypercritical behavior, but, conversely, it can help a woman to develop inner strength, to take an enterprising approach to life, and to relate to men in positive ways.

      We must stop shaming men for showing their anima side and stop shaming women for their animus's side.

    4. This explains, Jungians argue, why myths are universal and certain themes and motifs are found in works of art throughout history and everywhere in the world. Jung’s notions about archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the universality of myths, I should add, are very controversial, and many psychologists and others take issue with them. It is impossible to demonstrate, for instance, that a collective unconscious actually exists.

      Why is this controversial, I think Jung is right.

    5. The “cost” of civilization is generally too great for us; we are forced to renounce too much (especially our sexuality), and we suffer from too much guilt.

      And some choose to ignore the cost and repress it and suppress it by ensuring that it isn't learned in history

    6. This is where symbols (which I’ve already discussed) come in—they allow us to sneak “forbidden” material past our internal censors

      I didn't know this was the purpose of fairy tales

    7. Dreams are understood to be the hallucinatory fulfillment of irrational wishes and particularly sexual wishes which have originated in our early childhood and have not been fully transformed into reaction formations or sublimations. These wishes are expressed as being fulfilled when our conscious control is weakened, as is the case in sleep. (p. 67)

      Aren't dreams also things that we don't want to deal with in consciousness?

    8. Texts that feature the police or have religious messages are obviously superego texts.

      Interesting that this author says these messages are always superego texts. I'd say religion mostly is, but police? well....

    9. The poor ego tries to mediate between the two—between the desire for pleasure and the fear of punishment, between the drives and the conscience.

      So, the id and the superego are in a tug of war against each other and the ego is the rope.

    10. Faces, they argue, are “windows” into our emotional states, which play an important part in our social lives.

      Reminds me of the saying that eyes are the window to the soul

    11. When we “read” people, either in real life or in mass-mediated texts such as advertisements, commercials, and films, we pay a great deal of attention to things like their hairstyles, the brands of sunglasses, clothing, accessories and shoes they wear, and their body ornaments.

      The key and the significance of all this is really in the subtlety

    12. Semiotics is of great interest to marketers, who use it in an effort to understand the way consumers think and what goes on in their minds when they contemplate purchasing a product or service. Branding has now become a major way in which companies get people to purchase their products. Rob Walker (2008) deals with the role of brands in his book Buying In: What We Buy and Who We Are. He attacks the notion that the new generations somehow “see through” advertising and are immune to it. He writes:Everybody sees right through traditional advertising. You’d have to be an idiot not to recognize that you’re being pitched to when watching a thirty-second commercial. (p. 110)

      Amazing how subconscious all this is and unconscious it is.

    13. The meanings in signs, and in texts (which can be viewed as collections of signs), are not always (or even often) evident; they have to be elicited.

      The signs are subtle, but they are there

    14. The assumption that society is the result of individuals, each acting in accordance with self-interest, is the very basis of utilitarianism.… Saussure, Durkheim, and Freud seem to have recognized that this view gets things the wrong way around. For human beings, society is a primary reality, not just the sum of individual activities… and if one wishes to study human behavior, one must grant that there is a social reality.… In short, linguistics and psychoanalytic psychology are possible only when one takes the meanings which are attached to and differentiate objects and actions in society as a primary reality. (p. 87)

      I agree with this take

    1. The murder trial of three former guards in the videotaped beating of an inmate at an upstate prison was part of a remarkable prosecution that put New York’s culture of incarceration on trial.

      Good, this has got to stop.

    1. In prisons, where people’s bodies are already physically constrained, all that is left to confine is their minds and spirits. If we, as a profession, are going to be advocates for intellectual freedom, then our advocacy must be extended to all and to those who have been stripped of their most basic human rights: incarcerated people.

      What a powerful book

    1. “[Prisons censor] the things that you would probably think about as most threatening — materials that might enhance violence or maybe encourage some other sorts of subversive behavior,”

      Subversive meaning what? If inmates stand up against abuse?

  4. www-jstor-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu www-jstor-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu
    1. Cultural violence makes direct and struc-tural violence look, even feel, right - or atleast not wro

      It makes it natural, it is how the Nazis got Germans to be okay with the genocide of the jews. It's how any genocide is justified

    2. tars, crosses andcrescents; flags, anthems and militaryparades; the ubiquitous portrait of theLeader; inflammatory speeches and posters -all these come to mind.

      one forgets the power of symbols

    1. Kemi Badenoch, leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party, wrote on social media that people were “murdered simply for being Jews.” Ms. Badenoch noted that the attack came on a day when Jews “ask themselves — where have we gone wrong in the past, and what do we need to do to be better in the future.”

      antisemitism is nothing new

    1. Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the chamber’s appropriations panel, faulted the White House for using federal workers as bargaining chips, and questioned the legality of any firings conducted while the government remains closed.“It is unprecedented and irresponsible for the president of the United States to threaten innocent people rather than coming to work with us to negotiate an agreement to get government open,” Ms. Murray said.

      Good for her.

    1. the University of Cambridge accepted her into its doctoral program in 1961 without an undergraduate degree. She was awarded her doctorate in 1965.

      Impressive and is telling of her potential and rigour

    1. A recent Pew Research Center poll highlights the extent of the problem. The majority of Americans now prioritize news sources that align with their political views, effectively allowing the audience to define what constitutes "news."

      Not only that, but people do not get talked out of propaganda by having anyone preach at them or give them dry facts

  5. Sep 2025
    1. Kirk’s death came in an atmosphere of growing threats and violence against political figures on both sides of the aisle, from Trump to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to state lawmakers in Minnesota.

      All threats of violence are horrible and wrong.

    2. “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!” Trump added.

      The fact that Charlie Kirk is supported by Donald Trump is incredibly telling

    1. Important/TLDR Warning: Syllabi can be long, but they are important: read all, below (includes information on extra credit, late 'freebies,' dropped discussions, classroom policies, and more).

      It is long, and that is why I use speechify.

  6. Aug 2025
    1. A familiar example of an oppressed ethnic group with a distinctive dialect is African-Americans. They have a unique history among minorities in the United States, with their centuries-long experience as captive slaves and subsequent decades under Jim Crow laws. (These laws restricted their rights after their emancipation from slavery.) With the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and other laws, African-Americans gained legal rights to access public places and housing, but it is not possible to eliminate racism and discrimination only by passing laws; both still exist among the white majority. It is no longer “politically correct” to openly express racism, but it is much less frowned upon to express negative attitudes about African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). Typically, it is not the language itself that these attitudes are targeting; it is the people who speak it

      I do not speak AAVE, so would it be argued I'm not "truly black"?

    2. In the United States such groups are frequently referred to as “races,” but there is no such thing as biological race, and this misconception has historically led to racism and discrimination. Because of the social implications and biological inaccuracy of the term “race,” it is often more accurate and appropriate to use the terms ethnicity or ethnic group

      But, of course, in the United States, there isn't any way to get around the fact that we view people through the social construction of race

    3. Among the societies living in the islands of Oceania in the Pacific, fish have great economic and cultural importance. This is reflected in the rich vocabulary that describes all aspects of the fish and the environments that islanders depend on for survival. For example, in Palau there are about 1,000 fish species and Palauan fishermen knew, long before biologists existed, details about the anatomy, behavior, growth patterns and habitat of most of them—in many cases far more than modern biologists know even today. Much of fish behavior is related to the tides and the phases of the moon. Throughout Oceania, the names given to certain days of the lunar months reflect the likelihood of successful fishing. For example, in the Caroline Islands, the name for the night before the new moon is otolol, which means “to swarm.” The name indicates that the best fishing days cluster around the new moon. In Hawai`i and Tahiti two sets of days have names containing the particle `ole or `ore; one occurs in the first quarter of the moon and the other in the third quarter. The same name is given to the prevailing wind during those phases. The words mean “nothing,” because those days were considered bad for fishing as well as planting.

      Scientists and Indigenous peoples need to work together more often.

    4. There is nothing inherently better or worse in either pronunciation; it depends entirely on the social norms of the community.

      Very true, though, as with anything related to people and social status, there is a hierarchy.

    5. He found 1) that the responders in the two stores differed overall in their pronunciation of this sound, and 2) that the same person may differ between situations of less and more self-consciousness (first versus second answer). That is, people in the upscale store tended to pronounce the /r/, and responders in both stores tended to produce the standard pronunciation more in their second answers in an effort to sound “higher class.” These results showed that the pronunciation or deletion of /r/ in New York correlates with both social status and context.[4]

      This is very fascinating.

    6. Non-standard varieties of English, also known as vernaculars, are usually distinguished from the standard by their inclusion of such stigmatized forms as multiple negatives, the use of the verb form ain’t (which was originally the normal contraction of am not, as in “I ain’t,” comparable to “you aren’t,” or “she isn’t”); pronunciation of words like this and that as dis and dat; pronunciation of final “–ing” as “–in;” and any other feature that grammarians have decreed as “improper” English.

      This could also be called "low class English".

    7. Those eighteenth-century grammarians said we must use either don’t or no, but not both, that is, “I don’t have any money” or “I have no money.” They based this on a mathematical rule that says that two negatives make a positive.

      Oh Wow.

    1. Aspasia and Pericles had a son, Pericles the Younger, born no later than 440/39 BC.[e][28] At the time of Pericles the Younger's birth, Pericles had two legitimate sons, Paralus and Xanthippus

      The term "legitamate" when describing the type of child bothers me a lot. Nobody is more or less worthy because they were born in wedlock or out of wedlock. But, such were the times. It is incredibly sad though.

    2. She has continued to be a subject of both visual and literary artists until the present. From the twentieth century, she has been portrayed as both a sexualised and sexually liberated woman, and as a feminist role model fighting for women's rights in ancient Athens.

      It is fascinating to learn about the many ways women are viewed by outsiders and how their stories and who they are are shaped by those with an agenda on both sides.

    3. Though Aspasia is one of the best-attested women from the Greco-Roman world, and the most important woman in the history of fifth-century Athens, almost nothing is certain about her life.

      That is no accident, given the fact that historians viewed women of less importance

    1. If you know something to be true, but are incapable of persuading others, then it is hard for this knowledge to be put to use.

      So true. That is why charm is of the essence at times and being able to get people to feel comfortable around you and less threatened.

    2. In Ancient Greece, the idea of rhetoric was always under suspicion. And a female rhetorician was perhaps doubly suspect

      "Perhaps doubly suspect", I'd say a female rhetoritician was most certainly doubly suspect.

    3. This is how she came into contact with the philosopher Socrates, who — according to the account left by Plato — regarded her as his teacher.

      But, Aspasia is less known than Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

    1. In 1922, Rose worked with the ALA to organize a group of librarians to exchange ideas and discuss issues of working with African Americans.[2]

      I respect her for doing that. She was ahead of her time

    2. She emphasized programs that would help immigrants adjust to a new country rather than programs design to "Americanize" them, as was the norm at the time.[2]

      Good for her.

  7. Jul 2025
    1. Their shared aims are to protect against the inequities and casualties of the market economy through government regulation and (to a greater or lesser extent) public ownership, establish fair labor practices, expand public investment, defend human rights, and pursue social and environmental justice at home and abroad.

      That is beautiful

    1. Our wide range of hands-on learning courses offer students the opportunity to put their theory into practice through for-credit Professional Experiences and paid Co-op experience.

      That is definitely appealing

  8. Jun 2025
    1. You may have heard of Zora Neale Hurston or Bessie Smith—but do you know of Georgia Douglas Johnson? Augusta Savage? Nella Larsen? These—and dozens more—were women of the Harlem Renaissance.

      I know of Zora Neale Hurston and Augusta Savage, but not the rest. I only know who Augusta Savage is because in college I took an art history and feminism class

    1. Throughout, Anderson kept focused on her job. She would later write that she saw “the use of books as our strongest means of promoting intercultural understanding.

      That is absolutely correct

    2. Another frequent guest was Carl Van Vechten, a white writer and photographer; after he published a controversial book with a racist title based on his experiences there, he was apparently kicked out.

      Good

    3. “I always considered myself an American. I don’t know what else I could be,” she explained to her interviewer. “To us you’re not an American,” he replied. “You’re not white.”

      White is what American equalled and in many ways, it still does equal that today.

    4. although Anderson doesn’t show up in many contemporary accounts of the period, she was there the whole time: lending out books, throwing parties, fighting for opportunities of her own, and enabling the spread of ideas that made the era what it was.

      She should be discussed way more than she is currently.

    5. On a typical day in 1923 or 1924, Anderson might leave her desk at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library and drop a letter to W.E.B. Du Bois in the mailbox. She may go home to her apartment on St. Nicholas Avenue to check up on her couchsurfer, Zora Neale Hurston. Or she might hit the town with Countee Cullen, and then finish out the night cooking bacon and eggs for Langston Hughes.

      Weird to think 1923 and 1924 were 102 and 101 years ago respectively.

    6. ou might not know about Regina Anderson, but you’ve probably heard of many of her friends

      I learned about her from the PBS documentary "How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution."

    1. The next year, she was one of ten African Americans to be honored for her contributions at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City.

      That is impressive, especially to get that honor in 1939.

  9. May 2025
    1. Why is mob murder permitted by a Christian nation?

      It is powerful that she calls it a Christian nation, and Christians must sit with that. I, as a Christian must sit with that.

    1. I think what Black Arts did was inspire a whole lot of Black people to write. Moreover, there would be no multiculturalism movement without Black Arts. Latinos, Asian Americans, and others all say they began writing as a result of the example of the 1960s. Blacks gave the example that you don’t have to assimilate. You could do your own thing, get into your own background, your own history, your own tradition and your own culture. I think the challenge is for cultural sovereignty and Black Arts struck a blow for that.

      That is an incredibly crucial thing.

    2. I think what Black Arts did was inspire a whole lot of Black people to write. Moreover, there would be no multiculturalism movement without Black Arts. Latinos, Asian Americans, and others all say they began writing as a result of the example of the 1960s. Blacks gave the example that you don’t have to assimilate. You could do your own thing, get into your own background, your own history, your own tradition and your own culture. I think the challenge is for cultural sovereignty and Black Arts struck a blow for that.

      This is a crucial reality.

    1. However, even this effort faced resistance. The library system insisted that she include Little Black Sambo, a book that Baker personally despised for its racist imagery

      It is tragic that even back then librarians dealt with censorship like this. It is a testiment to how engrained racism and a culture of dehumanization is engrained in people and institutions.

    2. One of her earliest and most significant contributions was curating a list of books that positively portrayed Black life. Part of what she’s known for is that she said, “I don’t like these books that I’m reading to my children in Harlem. They’re not representative of everyday life and the everyday joy.”

      People sometmes take for granted librarian's contributions.

    1. “When you have Black women who grew up under Jim Crow and had a disability, not including disability in their narrative is shameful. It’s shameful on us. It doesn’t give a full-circle understanding of who they are, and it shows our lack of comfortability of connecting disability to these people,” Thompson said.

      I would also argue it ignores the intersectionality between racism, poverty, and disability

  10. Apr 2025
    1. Baker immediately recognized the damaging effects of these misrepresentations and set out to address them.

      Children internalize the messages sent by the world about themselves and others. That takes a long time to undo

    2. A pioneer for Black librarianship, she was the first Black person to earn a B.S. in library and information studies from SUNY Albany.

      That is incredibly impressive and her story should be taught more often elementary and middle school.

    1. Skim through the middle of the article and look for a statement of research methodology, and any visuals presented. What are the method(s) for collecting evidence or answering the article’s research question?

      Good idea

    1. Learning to efficiently read research and scholarly writing is a skill that will help greatly with managing your time and workflow. Instead of spending time thoroughly reading every word in dense scholarly articles, learn to strategically approach reading to pull out the most relevant pieces of the writing, and quickly evaluate a source’s overall methodology and approach. This module will help you read scholarly writing more efficiently. There are many different ways to go about reading, and no one technique will work for everyone. With time and practice, these strategic reading techniques will get easier and more natural.

      Such an important skill that I am grateful to have learned

    1. Although it started as a feature of California English, it has spread all across the country, and even to many young second-language speakers of English. It’s, like, totally awesome dude!

      (:

    1. it's the even more hierarchical structures of the Catholic church that causes Cheek to wonder whether Catholics will ever allow women priests. "It has such a different polity from ours," she said, "that it's hard to imagine how it could." The change in Episcopal church law allowing ordination of women as priests was one that "the House of Deputies (half clergy, half laity) and the House of Bishops both voted for." Catholicism is missing that more democratic structure, she said, and thus it will be harder to make the change. "But," she added, "if a pope were elected who was passionate about it, who knows what would happen?" As Jefferts Schori looks toward the possibility of Catholic female priests, she has concluded, "I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime. The Orthodox may get there before the Romans do.

      As a former Catholic becoming Episcopalian, I think women in the Roman Catholic church will be ordained when I am an old lady. I am not close-minded to the possibility of it happening in my lifetime, but I do not believe it will happen in my youth. I'm only in my early twenties and I would guess at thew earliest it would happen in my seventies or eighties, but probably it will happen in my nineties and my hundreds. I agree wirh Jefferts Shori that the Orthodox will get there before the Romans.

    2. Heyward praises much of the tone and approach Pope Francis has set. But when it comes to women's issues, she said, "he does not seem to be all that -- I don't know what word to use but I'm going to use the word -- aware that there really are significant problems in Christian tradition and especially in Catholic tradition when it comes to the role and place of women."

      Those are fair criticisms and criticisms that will be slow to change.

    3. One of the Philadelphia 11, Carter Heyward, now retired from teaching at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., told NCR that there is "kind of a glass ceiling effect in the church." That, she said, has to do with a common attitude that, "yes, there can be women priests in the Episcopal church, but how many do we actually want?" Beyond that, she said, some congregations worry that they'll become known as places who hire only female priests.

      Ordaining women as priests is the first step.

    4. Although, as O'Dell writes, Heyward considered the ordination the "most extraordinary and finest day" of her life, she and other surviving members of the Philadelphia 11, as well as women ordained later, have not remained frozen in that turbulent time of Watergate just before Richard Nixon's resignation. Rather, they have continued to respond to changing theological ideas and needs in a church that's often been near the front of such social movements as equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

      That is beautiful.

  11. Mar 2025
    1. The Aja speak a language known as Aja-Gbe, or simply 'Aja'; only 1-5% are literate in their native tongue. According to one source, voodoo originated with the Aja

      So sad the literacy of the native tongue is so low

    1. “[n]othing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning – that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.”

      Whenever a devastating crisis like this occurs, there must always be a a scapegoat, someone to blame. That scapegoat is usually a group that is an easy target and a distraction so the oppressors can stay in power.

  12. Feb 2025
    1. The fraught relationship between Burr and Hamilton is at the center of Miranda’s show. In the opening number, Burr introduces Hamilton as a “bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman”: lyrics derived from a contemptuous description by John Adams

      Okay, that's a pretty cruel description. How elitist.

    2. There was extraordinary dramatic potential in Hamilton’s story: the characteristics that allowed him to rise also insured his fall.

      This is often true, one's strength is also one's weakness

  13. Jan 2025
    1. For example, eye contact for Americans is highly valued as a way to show we are paying attention and as a means of showing respect. But for the Japanese, eye contact is usually inappropriate, especially between two people of different social statuses

      Too much eye contact or too little eye contact in the United States also can be a symptom for autism, I wonder how you determine it in a country like Japan or Korea, where it is considered rude.

    2. There is plenty of evidence for this in the U.S. educational system. You might very well have had this same experience. It makes you wonder why our schools rarely offer foreign language classes before the junior high school level

      I imagine it is because there is a lot of prejudice and racism against people who speak multiple languages, particularly if that language is Spanish, or an Indigenous language. There is this idea that English or any European language is superior to any other language.

  14. Dec 2024
    1. Humans think in language and do all cultural activities using language. It surrounds our every waking and sleeping moments, although we do not usually think about its importance. For that matter, humans do not think about their immersion in culture either, much as fish, if they were endowed with intelligence, would not think much about the water that surrounds them

      This is why colonizers and oppressors will force a people to suppress their language and stop speaking it, for getting rid of one's language is a powerful form of cultural genocide.

  15. Nov 2024
    1. This month, the disability community lost a visionary, artist, oracle, and impactful leader: Lois Curtis. Lois Curtis is a Black disabled woman who passed in her home at 55. If you don’t know the name Lois Curtis, please read and learn about her and the immense impact she has had in the fight for disability rights.

      I learned about her in my Intro to Women's Studies class, when a classmate did a presentation on her.

    1. There is still a demand for some skilled trades that do not require a bachelor's degree, such as paralegals, police officers, mechanics, electricians, and technicians.[76][77][78]

      My dad was a paralegal

    1. In Alaska, the Service, as well as theState of Alaska Department of Fishand Game Subsistence Division,collect and use TEK for researchand monitoring fish populationsunder the Federal SubsistenceManagement Program

      That is wonderful.

    2. For example, during the17th century the German bornbotanist Georg Eberhard Rumphiusbenefited from local biologicalknowledge in producing hiscatalogue, Herbarium Amboinense

      Indigenous Knowledge, Western knowledge and eastern knowledge are all needed.

    1. One of the things that art does is it can actually challenge you to think more deeply or differently about identity, how we see it, or what we actually think it is,

      Art is powerful. It incites movements and humanizes and dehumanizes people.

    1. hile he was interviewing Inuit elders in Alaska to find out more about their knowledge of beluga whales and how the mammals might respond to the changing Arctic, researcher Henry Huntington lost track of the conversation as the hunters suddenly switched from the subject of belugas to beavers. It turned out though, that the hunters were still really talking about whales. There had been an increase in beaver populations, they explained, which had reduced spawning habitat for salmon and other fish, which meant less prey for the belugas and so fewer whales.

      Everything is connected.

    2. From Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world. What they are learning is helping them discover more about everything from melting Arctic ice, to protecting fish stocks, to controlling wildfires.

      This is beautiful. I hope Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is taught in science during grade school.

    1. The federal government is growing larger and lessconstitutionally accountable—even to the President—every year.

      This is happening with Donald Trump, who is a convicted felon

  16. Oct 2024
    1. Look at America under the rulingand cultural elite today: Inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deathscontinue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgender-ism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries

      "Pornography" as in books about LGBTQ+ people?

    1. They are inseparable because language encodes culture and provides the means through which culture is shared and passed from one generation to the next

      When colonizers forced Indigenous peoples and African peoples not to speak their languages, that imapcted the world more than we understand

    2. An integrated system of mental elements (beliefs, values, worldview, attitudes, norms), the behaviors motivated by those mental elements, and the material items created by those behaviors; A system shared by the members of the society; 100 percent learned, not innate; Based on symbolic systems, the most important of which is language; Humankind’s most important adaptive mechanism, and Dynamic, constantly changing.

      It is amazing how much culture impacts our outlook on life and how we respond to events, big or small

  17. Sep 2024
    1. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one’s self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one’s own characteristic qualities

      She sees the conundrum as the push and pull of being an individual person and part of community

    1. Who is Emma Goldman – when did she live, and how was she active? (You will need to do some research for this question)

      She was an anarchist woman's rights political thinker who, along with her lover, was imprisoned for an assasination attempt. she lectured about the corruption and coercion of government

    1. “These degrees are symbolic of a collective struggle and a collective victory that extends far beyond the individual … We knew that economic measures of degree value did not accurately reflect the significance of those degrees for us.”

      So by calling a professor solely by their first name, they erase the collective lineage and the stories that helped the professors get to where they are.

    1. And those qualities, which I believe have passed into white culture from Indian culture, are the very ones that fundamentalists, immigrants from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia often find the most reprehensible. Third- and fourth-generation Americans indulge in growing nudity, informality in social relations, egalitarianism, and the rearing of women who value autonomy, strength, freedom, and personal dignity—;and who are often derided by European, Asian, and Middle Eastern men for those qualities.

      How ironic

    2. The early Americans saw the strongly protective attitude of the Indian people as a mark of their "savagery"—as they saw the Indian's habit of bathing frequently, their sexual openness, their liking for scant clothing, their raucous laughter at most things, their suspicion and derision of authoritarian structures, their quick pride, their genuine courtesy, their willingness to share what they had with others less fortunate than they, their egalitarianism, their ability to act as if various lifestyles were a normal part of living, and their granting that women were of equal or, in individual cases, of greater value than men.

      Their puritan attitude is showing

    3. Even though Indians are officially and informally ignored as intellectual movers and shapers in the United States, Britain, and Europe, they are peoples with ancient tenure on this soil. During the ages when tribal societies existed in the Americas largely untouched by patriarchal oppression, they developed elaborate systems of thought that included science, philosophy, and government based on a belief in the central importance of female energies, autonomy of individuals, cooperation, human dignity, human freedom, and egalitarian distribution of status, goods, and services. Respect for others, reverence for life, and as a by-product, pacifism as a way of life; importance of kinship ties in the customary ordering social interaction; a sense of the sacredness and mystery of existence; balance and harmony in relationships both sacred and secular were all features of life among the tribal confederacies and nations. And in,those that lived by the largest number of these principles, gynarchy was the norm rather than the exception. Those systems are as yet unmatched in any contemporary industrial, agrarian, or postindustrial society on earth.

      That is very beautiful

    4. America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native America. It is ignorant of the genesis of its culture in this Native American land, and that ignorance helps to perpetuate the long-standing European and Middle Eastern monotheistic, hierarchical, patriarchal cultures' oppression of women, gays, and lesbians, people of color, working class, unemployed people, and the elderly

      Initially, Americans did remember this, however, they did not want to and so they ensured the descendants did not.

    5. They believe that the roots of oppression are to be found in the loss of tradition and memory because that loss is always accompanied by a loss of positive sense of self. In short, Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

      What a culture clash.

    6. This importance of tradition in the life of every member of the community is not confined to Keres Indians; all American Indian Nations place great value on traditionalism.

      Indigenoud peoples respect the past and honor it

    1. In beach areas, use reef safe sunscreen without harmful ingredients like oxybenzone and octinoxate, and never step on coral or stir up sediment (which can also cause damage to the ecosystem).5

      Ooh, good to know

    1. Every time one of my videos is watched, an advertisement plays, and I’ll make a small percentage. We’re talking very small. But times that by the amount of people who watch my videos, and things start to ad up (pun intended).

      haha

    1. And while it may be just a few Americans who give the rest of us a bad rap

      Well, that's mainly the way it is, we assume that everyone will be like this because a few are. Ugh

  18. May 2024
    1. The United States worried that the success of the Creole slaves in gaining freedom would encourage more slave revolts on merchant ships

      And they'd lose all the profit they got from enslaving Africans

    2. The Bahama islands were inhabited by the Arawak and Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries.[13] Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the "New World" in 1492 when he landed on the island of San Salvador.

      Wow. I didn't know he first landed in The Bahamas

  19. Apr 2024
  20. Mar 2024
    1. Linguistic anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf, for instance, examined interrelationships between culture, language, and cognition. They argued that the language one speaks plays a critical role in determining how one thinks, particularly in terms of understanding time, space, and matter

      It does

  21. Feb 2024
    1. But given her position as an enslaved person and a woman of color, it’s almost certain that Tituba’s confession was coerced.

      Why do they say that it is "almost certain" that her confession was coerced? If she was enslaved, it was coerced.

    2. Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials, students quickly come to see, is gender. In Salem, 14 of the 19 people found guilty of and executed for witchcraft during that cataclysmic year of 1692 were women.

      That was in no way an accident.

    1. Fears that white women were being coerced into prostitution led to the “white slavery” scare of the 1910s, spurring a concerted attack on brothels by progressive reformers. These reformers used the emergency of World War I to close public brothels, pushing America’s sex markets into clandestine spaces and empowering pimps’ control over women’s sexual labor.

      So trying to outlaw it only made it more dangerous for sex workers

    2. These women turned to prostitution on a casual or steady basis as a survival strategy in a sex segregated labor market that paid women perilously low wages, or in response to family disruptions such as paternal or spousal abandonment.

      Uh huh. Like Fantine is Les Miserables

    1. Consequently, reforms were enacted during that time, such as the legalization of recreational marijuana in an increasing number of states and the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 that reduced the discrepancy of crack-to-powder possession thresholds for minimum sentences from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1. Prison reform legislation enacted in 2018 further reduced the sentences for some crack cocaine–related convictions. While the War on Drugs is still technically being waged, it is done at a much less intense level than it was during its peak in the 1980s.

      My dad took marijuana for cancer treatment

    2. War on Drugs, the effort in the United States since the 1970s to combat illegal drug use by greatly increasing penalties, enforcement, and incarceration for drug offenders.

      And I'll bet they only offer healing rehabilitation centers to white people

  22. Jan 2024
    1. The surge of – and appetite for – the punk scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s wasn’t limited purely to the music. It became an ideology, spawning literature, poetry, fashion and political defiance

      So, it's literally heaven for deviant people, cool

    1. Ideally we would all get much better at preventing bullying, ensure that children and professionals understand neurodiversity, and foster a sense of Weird Pride in those who are at risk of becoming outcasts.

      And those who already are

    1. Today, anthropologists recognize that human cultures constantly change as people respond to social, political, economic, and other external and internal influences—that there is no moment when a culture is more authentic or more primitive.

      Exactly. But we still have yet to unlearn this ideal

  23. Dec 2023
    1. All animals eat, but we are the only animal that cooks. So cooking becomesmore than a necessity, it is the symbol of our humanity, what marks us offfrom the rest of nature.

      I guess cooking does make us human?

  24. Oct 2023
    1. So, starting in July 2019, Blackley began extreme baking. To make sourdough bread, bakers need to ensure the yeast is alive, active, and in balance with the ambient bacteria. They create a moist environment made of water and flour, and continually feed the yeast flour. When the yeasts digest the sugars, they release carbon dioxide, which makes the bread rise.

      Ok, but is more-than-a-thousand-year-old yeast still safe to eat???

  25. Sep 2023
    1. Such descriptions help readers better understand the internal logic of why people in a culture behave as they do and why the behaviors are meaningful to them.

      Questions most people don't care to ask

    2. A thick description explains not only the behavior or cultural event in question but also the context in which it occurs and anthropological interpretations of it

      Which fascinates me and is exactly why I want to be an anthropologist.

    1. The topmost bony part of the nose is formed by the nasal part of the frontal bone, which lies between the brow ridges,[3] and ends in a serrated nasal notch.[4] A left and a right nasal bone join with the nasal part of the frontal bone at either side; and these at the side with the small lacrimal bones and the frontal process of each maxilla.[3] The internal roof of the nasal cavity is composed of the horizontal, perforated cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone through which pass sensory fibres of the olfactory nerve. Below and behind the cribriform plate, sloping down at an angle, is the face of the sphenoid bone.

      I may not understand this, but that's a crucial part of the body. and what the nose does for us

  26. Aug 2023
    1. Formally, however, autistic children continued to be diagnosed under various terms related to schizophrenia in both the DSM and ICD,[4] but by the early 1970s, it had become more widely recognized that autism and schizophrenia were in fact distinct psychiatric conditions

      Then why did people think that they were the same and why is there so much disagreement on what the hell autism is

    1. “Patriarchy” is not a stable concept. It has fallen in and out of fashion, flourishing at moments of feminist renewal. Nevertheless, feminism began without it. Mary Wollstonecraft was clear, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) that there was such as thing as “the tyranny of men”, but it was another 60 years before the term “patriarchy” was adopted as something like a theory of social relations

      So, has it alwaus existed and the name Patriarchy is new? or is the concept of patriarchy new.

    2. Others have argued that even if equality were achieved, patriarchy would still exist, because human institutions – political, legal, educational, cultural – are themselves, in their bones, patriarchal structures.

      I'm more inclined to agree with this

    3. The moment of #MeToo brought this into relief: it revealed to many feminists that despite all those years of working hard, of leaning in, of waiting till unfairness gradually ebbed away, of absorbing and internalising sexism, of building starry careers or else toiling away in menial jobs in the hope that their children would have it better, you could still be pinned to a bed or cornered at a party or groped, or leered at or catcalled by a man – simply because of your woman’s body.

      It ripped away the myth that some women are more likely to be raped due to what they wear

    4. Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, was one of 20 million Americans watching. In his view, the scene before him augured the beginning of a revolution “even more powerful than populism”, according to his biographer Joshua Green. “It’s deeper. It’s primal. It’s elemental. The long black dresses and all that – this is the Puritans. It’s anti-patriarchy,” Bannon declared. “If you rolled out a guillotine, they’d chop off every set of balls in the room … Women are gonna take charge of society. And they couldn’t juxtapose a better villain than Trump. He is the patriarch.” He concluded: “The anti-patriarchy movement is going to undo 10,000 years of recorded history.”

      Talk about fear mongering

    1. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules.

      Nor can they love themselves by being taught that their worth is based on if they can "best" women

    2. Part of her theory carried through into another volume, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, that women were not conscious that they were subordinate (and it might be otherwise) until this consciousness began slowly to emerge, starting with medieval Europe.

      Hmmm, this reminds me of the movie Barbie, initially, the Barbies ruled and the Kens were just there, and, Ken and Barbie went to the real world & Ken learned about Patriarchy and implemented it

    1. To the American art historian McKimley Helm she explained more, and he wrote: “One of them is the Frida that Diego had loved.” The second Frida, the one in the white dress, is the “woman Diego no longer loves.”5

      So, both Fridas are deeply, unflinchingly, irreversibly in love with diego.

    2. Her niece, Isolda Kahlo, is convinced that the relationship between them was primarily that of mother and son. “Women,” said Kahlo, “would always like to have him in their arms like a new-born baby.

      Perhaps it's all of it. sexual. brotherly, friend, mother, son, universe, everything

    3. The diary also contains a kind of love chant. Diego was, she said, the beginning, the constructor, her child, boyfriend, lover, husband, friend, mother, father, son, herself and the universe. Another entry declares her desire to give birth to Diego: “At every moment he is my child, my child born every moment, diary, from myself.”

      Wow, he was EVERYTHING to her

    4. . The marriage of the exotic 19-year-old invalid to a titan more than twice her age (and almost twice her size) was marked by mutual dependency and moments of fierce passion.

      Which is why she called Diego in the movie "Panzon"

    5. Like a Christian martyr, she displays her wounds. But she does not look heavenward for solace; realist even in her fantasy, Kahlo confronts pain head-on.

      What a badass woman

    6. She thus becomes both active artist and passive model, dispassionate investigator of what it feels like to be a woman and passionate repository of feminine emotions

      So, she's storing and preserving female emotions

    7. all without competing with, or deferring to, him. Indeed she was known as Frida Kahlo, never Frida Rivera; she commanded attention as a painter and exotic personality quite apart from her connection with her husband.

      She was an artist in her own right.

    8. She pursued self-awareness through art at a time and place when society almost prohibited a woman from seriously following a career.

      Almost as in it was possible, but extremely hard.

    9. Her spinal cord slowly deteriorated and she had to wear a metal brace to keep the bones from settling on each other

      I don't know what it means to have bones settle on each other, but it's obviously not good.

    1. Continuity of the body with existence itself occurs only prior to our "self-possession" (a state that Lacan suggests occurs when we enter the symbolic order of language)

      huh?

    2. Woman is the figuration and potential, momentary fulfillment of that lack within the symbolic, patriarchal order described by Jacques Lacan

      So...lack of love from the mother is what causes this?? is that the argument here?

    3. . Psychoanalytic theory offers some possible rationales for the workings of the male gaze. According to most such theories, desire arises from a state of loss and represents a separation from the state of continuity (with the body of the mother); desire is a condition of discontinuity and "self" possession (as a participant in society), and thus it embodies a lack that can never be satisfied.

      Huh?

    4. At this point we might consider briefly how the female nude actually functions as the "other" to male desire within the context of the genre

      Meaning, how women are othered and dehumanized in art?

    5. paintings of the nude fairly consistently (with some exceptions) have fashioned the female body according to male desires and fantasies, without regard for women's experiences of their own bodies

      But a woman will understand the experience of her own body an will incorporate that in art

    6. Therefore, at issue in this discussion of Valadon's treatment of the conventions of the female nude is the historic representation of the female body for the male gaze

      So, the male gaze is the males' perspective

    1. The best strategy is to start small. Read a couple of documents for context—try to get the gist but you don’t have to understand every word.

      ok, so i should keep doing that.

    2. These advanced technologies can quickly and accurately interpret historical documents, handwritten letters and any other type of cursive script, making it possible to uncover the hidden stories and insights that these sources contain.

      How do we know that it is accurate, if all we're doing is relying on that, then is it really accurate? or are we just blindly trusting AI?

    3. However, with the advent of AI-powered handwriting recognition technology

      Artificial intelligence can be a double edged sword I suppose. And again, who made artificial intelligence, what biases went into making this?

    4. Cursive reading was once a labour-intensive task that required a great deal of skill and expertise. Scholars and historians would spend countless hours poring over old historical documents, trying to learn cursive writing.

      Sounds awesome and frustrating

    5. Cursive handwriting has a rich history. The first people to write cursive letters were the ancient Romans

      Really? it wasn't the egyptians? how do we know that? how do we know others didn't write cursive but it got destroyed?

    1. She was the illegitimate child of a domestic laborer, and by the age of six was freely roaming the streets of Montmartre, at the height of its bohemianism and artistic activity.

      I don't like the term illegitimate, she isn't worthless just because she was born out of wedlock

    2. In her numerous images employing the traditionally male-dominated genre of the female nude,[2] Valadon creates a diversity of representations that vary according to the differential interaction of determinants such as gender, class, artistic conventions, and artistic milieu.

      Interesting

    3. Poststructuralist studies, despite their many ruptures of traditional methodologies, too often have contrived to ignore class, race, and gender issues

      Especially race issues

    4. Although the Post-Impressionist palette and Synthetist-like style apparent in a number of her works have allowed critics to place her easily within that milieu, her art engages that paradigm only tangentially.

      So, it is not the whole story

    5. She was well known during her lifetime, but more for her stereotypically bohemian and excessive "artistic" life-style than for her painting

      By artistic, I'm going to assume they mean unique and unconventional

    1. Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange

      So, since cultural anthropologists are constantly interacting with different cultures, do they have reverse culture shock when they are among their own cultures?

  27. Jul 2023
    1. “My mother championed the cause of women’s welfare and helped pioneer the microloans that have helped lift millions out of poverty,” said Obama in 2009.

      You can tell Barack Obama adored his mother.

    1. During this early period of her life, Artemisia took inspiration from her father's painting style, which had in turn been heavily influenced by the work of Caravaggio

      In a documentary on Artemesia, one woman who was interviewed noticed that she was painting in the same way as men, and it seemed like she was critiquing this. She had to learn from someone, and there weren't many women artist she could become a mentee of, and she mentored some men artists too. I don't agree it was wrong of her to take inspiration. Also, she didn't totally duplicate her father or Caravaggio, she brought her own perspective as a woman to her art. Something that neither her father Orazio nor Caravaggio could do.

    2. She was the eldest child of Prudenzia di Ottaviano Montoni and the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi.

      I wish we knew more about her mother. Her mother has a story too. Although, maybe she was just a woman of her time and she didn't have as much of a story. But, she's still a person. Maybe she wanted to paint too

    1. her, Alex Potts wrote that images and objects arenot only mediated by conventions, but meaning is largely activated by culturalconvention (Potts 1996, 20). How is it possible not to recognize an image orobject? When we recognize an image or object, how do we recognize it

      so, in other words,what does it mean to this person based on their cultural context?

    1. There is always a connection between issues of race and gender and class. They don’t ever exist separately, and people who feel that they live them separately are really not understanding the multiple forces that have impacts on their identity and their lives.

      And disability/ability and nationality and country of origin and more.

    2. . Sports promote a kind of romance or a group understanding and intimacy about the notion of teams, about men being together and men’s bodies being together.

      Whoa, I never thought of it that way