#Colonialism

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

The media reporting on the removal of orientalising and sexualising 19thC decorative arts outside an international 5 * hotel in Dublin has been disappointing. There have been many opinions on

Sizwesihle Mavuso

stitchious

Globalisation, Economic Development And Inequality: An Alternative Perspective by Erik S Reinert (2004). "The fundamental cause of economic welfare is human productive creativity and morality", (Reinert, 2004). "National comp

Hiba Bég

HibaBeg

Thread With all the talk around the ‘westernisation’ of Maulana Rumi, I want to revisit Edward Said’s ground-breaking ‘Orientalism’, which received a lot of flack, as does anything that attempts

Aisha Taras

aisha_taras

Last day of Ramadan I’m gonna make a thread about my favourite read of the year (or maybe ever): Love From A to Z by @SajidahWrites . Ngl first time

Bachata in the mosh pit

brujacontumbao

I hear a lot of reformers/liberals/carceralists say “Abolitionists are overly idealistic and think everyone’s just gonna get along if we got rid of prisons and police, they have no plan

Sacha Coward

sacha_coward

It’s pitch black, you awaken and the night is still.The fire has died.Behind you a sound like a child crying... but somehow distorted.A trail of blood leads away from your

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Cancelling Karl Marx for ‘On the Jewish Question’, but not for any antisemitism, or historically dated notions of religion, but by using Moses Hess’ definition of Judaism & emancipation, That

tanu⁷ 𖧵⁵

24x7Heaven

Since some of y'all don't see the problem lemme explain A mathapatti that the kpop girls are often seen wearing and their stylist seem obssessed with is not just

abbey 🕊

girIoftheyr

ok so im trying to fill up on credits this summer and the classes i register for keep getting cancelled. so pls help me choose a new one 1. Black

Nomogaia

NomoGaia

Today @Facebook published executive summaries of 3 #HRIAs done in #Cambodia, #SriLanka and #Indonesia. The modicum of transparency is welcome. But they leave a lot of questions unanswered. Here are

Indian Art

IndiaArtHistory

Why Indian History books MUST be Re-written??(A Thread)Indian history is mostly written from the perspective of Delhi or at most northern India, as if the rest of the country barely

Aylwyn Scally

aylwyn_scally

Some thoughts on the recent paper about Polynesian ancestry by Ioannidis et al. (Long thread.)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2 The paper investigates ancestry in present-day Polynesians using genetic data from 354 individua

Rain Mason, PhD, BLM, ACAB 🦊

500livesasafox

How divination is like psychotherapy: a thread on healing, culture, and colonialism. (This thread jump off from my previous thread on how colonialist academic psychology denigrates astrology and divination as

Rohan Javet Beg

RohanBeg

I've been off Twitter for the past several days because of work so I haven't been privy to the Malaysian discourse on the BLM protests. My expectations were low, but

Justin Piché

JustinPicheh

@kevindhaggerty writes: "Carleton U, the police, and the new academic isolationism: The decision by Carleton University criminologists to eliminate student placements with police and correctional services is ill-advised"https://ww

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

THREAD. The idea that some (but not all!) Indians are really "white" is not new. Unfortunately, this claim has a very ugly history of and association with -- wait for