#Historical

A Thread about Pacific Islander Erasure: I'm really irritated with how Asian American's claim "Asian Pacific" Islander/American while at the same excluding and erasing Pacific Islanders from their cultural/political work.
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I'm teaching Aristophanes' (wonderfully complex and remarkably topical) THESMOPHORIAZUSAE in Greek this Fall. Less than two weeks in, the students and I have been struggling with a few terms, and
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Quick thread on the idea of 'corporate repentance':My thesis is that biblical repentance is a change of mind leading to a change in behavior. Therefore, we can only repent of
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In Guattari's "Regimes, Pathways, Subjects" he lays out 3 paths/voices of apparatuses (assemblages): 1. "power over exterior territorialities" 2. "deterritorialized modes knowledge about human activities and mac
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I've been reluctant to wade into the Trump-fascism debate, in part because I'm not sure I have a huge amount to contribute. It always seemed obvious to me that the
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One of things with the Black Legion Series is what to show, what to reveal, and what to leave as a mystery. Especially in the opening trilogy.One fan's "Finally, now
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A little historical tour of Deptford today interspersed with some pictures of what used to be there Starting with some of the buildings along Deptford High Street Trickett tea, coffee
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So in the early 2000s I was on the leadership board of my college LGBT+ group and we had...an epic fight Basically in April our campus LGBT+ group had a
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short thread on history and statuesDo some statues deserve to be toppled and removed? Of course. My father went to school in Italy when fascism was largely still a taboo
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Quite a few friends have been talking recently about a petition by two current BYU students that asks the school to consider whether or not the university is living up
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My friend said "Guy give me babe na" and I initially thought he was joking. So he said it yesterday again in Yoruba "Baba fúnmi lomo naw mo fe marry
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I feel like going on a bit of a thought-wander, and I'm partly inspired by this article, which is quite good. I want to disentangle opinion, arguments, facts, and interpretations.https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your
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When it comes to debates about the nature of the Lord's Supper, there's a curious hermeneutical tactic employed by the crowd that insists Jesus was speaking symbolically by saying, "dO
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I would like to use this opportunity to share a historical account that connects Cows, Arabs, Hindus and Vasco de Gama. The story is from 15th century Kerala.@delventotime @TIinExile https://twitter.com/delventotime/status/13047962399895429
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I'm reading the baddiel book and As a flaming homosexual, I had hoped he would have talked to the other minorities whom he alleges don't face these things. I dont
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An idea for a framework on how to "value" cash. Some general ramblings... Cash is just an extremely long dated option, giving you optionality to buy during a drawdown, while
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