#English

My thread was getting wild so I'm going to start a new one with Florence Okoye's keynote 'Caliban at the Boiler: Rendering Speculative Fiction as Plantation Hardware' @FINOkoye for the
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So here’s a thing, at this time of year it’s perfectly understandable to feel somewhat ‘down’ at the end of Halloween (Especially this year amidst the chaos) But there’s a
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pt. 1/? for my rant tweet sorryso im kind of annoyed at the protection/fanbase that the lesbian/wlw community has on tiktok. people act like they can do no wrong and
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Tomorrow's there's an online class on The Russian Gothic FantasticIf you'd like to come and you haven't already got a link, just write a little message below.The classes are at
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Eddie Izzard is a fantastic comedian and actress. It makes no sense that people claiming to be fans are flipping out now that she's exclusively using she/her pronouns and femme
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1/6 For year's end, a thread of a few 2020 papers from emerging researchers that I really liked, mostly on migration/youth/temporality. Starting w/ @kayathiea's very lovely ethnography of backpacker farm
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Some thoughts in no particular order about the exams proposal:1. It says to grade kids on their current performance, not what we think they would have been awarded in the
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'It is an ominous sign of the time that Indian history is being viewed in official circles in perspective of recent politics' writes R. C. Majumdar in his independent work
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Andrew Cuomo said Thurs he refuses Trump's UI ext bcz he believed it was illegal, that he'd "rather do biz w the old time bookie on the corner than w
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I noticed that a lot of “Sikh Twitter” topics are usually political, historical, or involve advanced theological discussions. Many may feel left out that they don’t have the knowledge to
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I picked up William Hinton’s Fanshen and it was a signed copy! Hinton was a staff member for the US Office of War Information working in China in a village
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The funding was due to come to an end in March 2020, it hasn't been 'axed.' These 'anti bullying' schemes have been a means to instigate a re-education programme for
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I dont care about this lowlifes opinions on Marathis/Marathas but this is a sacrilege against a god held sacred by Hindus from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and elsewhere hence a small
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The Qiao Collective’s Xinjiang resource compendium is hilarious. I’ve been going through it and I’m truly impressed by how many obvious issues there are. Often, what they link to to
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So one thing about the use of titles thing is: where I live we all call each other by titles unless we are close friends and family. Anybody I have
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Just stumbled across something that caused actual tears of laughter and I have to share it with you.Researching Barcelona's Christmas markets, I came across an article titled "Curl One Out
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