#Cultural

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

Alright, I think it's time to get more ancient stuff on this twitter, so I'm going to start sharing some of my favorite ancient artifacts.Let's start with BM 2001,0501.1: The

Dana Larsen

DanaLarsen

THREAD: During the 1800s, many people believed that masturbating would drive you insane.There was a huge cultural fear of masturbation. This natural act was punished, criminalized and pathologized.Academics call this

Neil Tester

NTtweeting

Unusually, I didn’t live tweet from @MattHancock’s Future of Healthcare speech this morning. I wanted to think about the text afterwards, and the novelty of being IN A ROOM WITH

turn humans into bats

nyeogmi

"family" was a bad idea it's like a permanent game of Monopoly that you're never allowed to leaveand if you return to the table five years later, they'll say "we

Tsogo.

Tsogo_k

I privately joke that Schuster is the closest thing SA has to an auteur filmmaker. There are few artists, let alone filmmakers, whose work is so idiosyncratic to post-Apartheid SA

Kjell Anderson

Kjell_Anderson

Things to look for in the #Ongwen verdict (relying partly on input from people familiar w/ the trial that I cannot cite):1. I think it quite likely Ongwen will be

sententiae antiquae

sentantiq

A thread on that Katz op-ed.Let’s leave aside the fact that writing for Q-llette (and heterodox etc) is an act to consciously affiliate oneself with a particular POV, one in

Priyamvada Gopal

PriyamvadaGopal

So the news from Cambridge, which someone asked me to comment on, is beyond tedious. A government-ordered regulation suppressing protest (under the guise of free speech) has been pushed through

r e n o i r

BignessAsUsual

What Wiley’s been doing over the past however many hours has fuck all to do with black culture, fuck all to do with Grime, fuck all to do with Corbyn/Labour.Anyone

Sudatta

iSudatta

Starting tomorrow, I will be sharing tit bits about Bengal’s Food History. If you would like to know more about it https://www.instagram.com/isudatta/ Here is Part 1 of Bengal's Food

Boarding Soon

boardingsoon

[THREAD] There's a lot of talk about divisiveness and unity right now. The country is at a low point and if you take the politics out of it, it is

Dr. Simran Jeet Singh

SikhProf

I understand that talking about religion in public is complicated, and that the upside is hard to quantify.But if we let universities strip away their commitments to religious diversity, we

{awakening bhārata}

ancient_bharat

#Thread on TibetIn 1950, The peaceful Buddhist country TIBET was INVADED by newly established Chinese Communist.From International legal point of view Tibet remains an INDEPENDENT country under ILLEGAL OCCUPATION of

Ron Coleman

RonColeman

I guess I had an epiphany. It is funny how we think we're "based now," but are, really, still stuck in old mindsets.On the way to my new office I

Merlin C.

merlinc2

NYTimes article on HR depts' approach to anti-racism captured problem. Whew! Much of it treats racism as almost primordial & timeless rather than a force mediated by circumstance and history.

Mark Greene

RemakingManhood

Some men are insisting Dr. Jill Biden should stop using her title "Dr." Let's get to the heart of the matter, shall we? -- Why Some Men Still Fear a

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