April 2012
24 posts
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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New Malcolm X biography wins Pulitzer Prize →
Apr 17th
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Escaped slave communities in Brazil →
Apr 17th
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Dialogue from Helen Oyeyemi's "White is for...
Miranda: "Goodlady, are you really good?"
Goodlady: "Yes"
M: "Even when no one is looking?"
G: "Of course"
M: "But do you understand your nature?"
G: "My nature?"
M: "Did you choose to be good, or were you so created?"
G: "I chose to be created"
M: "Is that really an answer?"
G: "Yes"
Apr 15th
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome →
Apr 15th
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Nude Revolutionaries →
Apr 6th
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'How Creativity Works': It's All In Your... →
Apr 6th
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WatchWatch
Playing for Change doing a great cover of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind”
Apr 6th
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“[T]he leadership of the EU thinks that Greek people are, collectively, childish...”
– Michael Marder, ‘The European Union and the rhetoric of immaturity’
Apr 6th
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Apr 3rd
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When your 7-year old son announces, "I'm gay" →
Apr 3rd
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Enjoy Poverty
Enjoy Poverty, by Renzo Martens, is a documentary/mockumentary that everyone should watch. It’s about how the West profits out of poverty in Africa, but puts forth its critique in a very novel way - by duplicating exactly what’s being critiqued (the exploitative ways Westerners interact with Africans) in order to expose it. Martens is just like any other Western media guy profiting out...
Apr 3rd
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Jhumpa Lahiri on the art of constructing sentences →
Apr 3rd
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The benefits of bilingualism →
Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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Memoirs of a drunken Marx →
Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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