#Contemporary

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

The latest Fox News/Ron DeSantis talking point about contemporary anti-racism being "a nefarious Marxist plot to brainwash our children" recycles a very old, right wing formulation. Here it is expressed

NARAL

NARAL

It took about a day, but here we are. The anti-choice movement is bending over backwards to justify its continued support of Trump and his administration after a whistleblower revealed

small robots

smolrobots

A lot of this resonates with stuff we occasionally complain about when people just reply to stuff in a way that reads like every conversation is a challenge.https://twitter.com/synxiecbeta/status/1387889723515969536?s=19 That's a

Ministry of Subterranean Affairs

brutenorse

People talk about doomscrolling, but truly the biggest doomscroll of them all is completing two degrees in medieval philology, save perhaps for doing a full PhD, and seeing the best,

Ola Michalec

Ola_Michalec

Thinking about @thesiswhisperer comparing academic writing to a painful upper middle-class dinner convo. Inger, this is so on point. Being neither posh, nor English native speaker, I decided to develop

reclaim UC

reclaimuc

ICYMI / this is a really helpful interview on the UCSC wildcat strike and #cola4all sequence. here's a thread with some highlights.https://twitter.com/SpreadtheStrike/status/1265755048945975296 "grades serve as an integral accounti

Rohan Mukherjee

rohan_mukh

[Thread] Many argue the current China crisis will push India closer to the US. I have a new journal article, as part of a special issue on US ally/partner perceptions

Priyadarshini Ohol

OholArt

Thread for savarnas asking how to educate themselves about casteism and casteist oppression and how to create space for dialogue.Create a reading group. Start with Babasaheb's books on Columbia University's

Burtee👤

Motolanii_

Do you know about the dancing plague? Where as many as 400 people didn't stop dancing for over 90 days till they died?[A Thread] In July 1518, residents of the

Branden Hunter

JustCallmeBHunt

The Winans!Detroit’s first family of gospel music: The Winans family is a group of gospel artists from Detroit consisting of David “Pop”, Delores “Mom”, David II, Ronald, Carvin, Marvin, Michael,

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felicityguillen

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; a reading thread by Felicity Guillen will include spoilers, memes and occasional screenshots. oh, i want to mention that i only started this now

A.Z. Foreman

azforeman

Thread about how the soundscape of late Renaissance French was a lot more varied than the linear handbook summaries lead one to imagine. With audio and visuals . Wanting to

Saad Saeed

SaadSaeed2

In “Islam & the Destiny of Man”, a book recommended by @ImranKhanPTI, Gai Eaton has beautifully made a distinction between Hypocrisy & Not washing one’s dirty linen in public. It

Phineas Harper

PhinHarper

This @XRebellionUK tension structure blockading the billionaire press site is genius and is, I think, the contemporary face of High Tech architecture. I'd argued #XR are the last remaining authentic

Historic Disney

HistoricDisney

Mary Blair, the artist, the icon, the woman. (a long thread) Arguably, one of the greatest and most recognizable Disney artists. Despite a challenging upbringing in Morgan Hill, CA she

Lost History

Lost_History1

CV Vaidya wrote:"There is NO EVIDENCE to hold that JAICHANDRA had ever called in Shihabuddin to attack Prithvīrāj as he was his enemy. It may be that he didn't assist