#Traditions

Ⓥin Ⓐrmani

vinarmani

THREADIt's so interesting. @jtoomim said it in his interview with @CryptoKelso and it was notably said by @MarcDeMesel too (with @rogerkver even giving a similar sentiment)"I was hoping @deadalnix would

Anshuman Pandey

anshumanpandey_

‘Old Uyghur’ script from Anatolia, folio from “Atabatu-l Haqayiq”, 14th c (courtesy @KontovasNiko). Shows the geographic & temporal extent of #Uyghur script and its stylistic diversity. This and all styles

Ben DeVane

bendevane

#ICLS2020 digital!! (I'm excited for this discussion). #ICLS2020 @profnai asks how we bring and/or develop theoretical perspectives about racism, and about power in LS - i love it #ICLS2020 @profnai

bowl of bong water

AKALI420

this woke me tf up y’all don’t understand it like rt mayym thinks akali is a disgrace to the clan, she is nothing. wearing jhomen tethi as her name is

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

Yesterday I wrote about one of the oldest Celtic deities: Cailleach, the patron of wolves. [link below]Once Europe was “converted” to Christianity, the Church began to depict her as a

Sami Jiries | سامي جِريِس

samijiries

One of the first things I learned when I started taking linguistics courses was that linguists are uniquely qualified to document and preserve the languages of marginalized and threatened communities,

𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗔 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗚𝗨𝗡 ⛩ (シーア将軍)

Shia_Shogun

[]Shias should fast on Ashura?There has been some talk about hadith existing in the Shia corpus that happen to mention fasting on Ashura as a virtuous obligation.There is also a

Deika Morrison

deikamorrison

Question: Why can’t we have a 4-day work week like what New Zealand is talking about so people can have better work-like balance and take long weekends to support domestic

MYTH AND FACT

MythAndFact

There is a tradition in Samburu Kenya, known as "beading", where older men rape young girls, some as young as 6 years old. A close relative will meet with the

Robbie Maakestad

RobbieMaakestad

The Rumpus is open for essay submissions until July 31 (https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit ), so as an editorial staff we put together this thread of what we would like to see in @The_Rumpus

Sonja Thomas, PhD

midukee21

Arundhati Roy Faces Flak from Anti-caste Scholars for Claiming 'Brahminism Not about Brahmins'https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/arundhati-roy-says-brahminism-not-about-brahmins-anti-caste-scholars-want-to-know-what-its-about-2848759.

Michael Sorrell

michaelsorrell

No one wants to say the simple truth: College campuses are the perfect breeding ground for COVID-19. Therefore, America, we cannot bring your sons and daughters back to our campuses

R.Сам 🦋🐏

Logo_Daedalus

Liberal-Libertarian theory is itself a sort of MKULTRA discourse in which you have to "disassociate" into a pure noetical realm of symbolic logic before you're allowed to speak with authority.

ai, back from the dead

fadesintointent

who wants my Spit Hot Takes about his role as intergenerational keeper of knowledge in a world that tries to disrupt that transmission/work on new things and why it's queer

𝔳𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔷𝔞 ☾

VanezaMonroe

Dia de los Muertos An educational thread for my mutuals Disclaimer: This thread isn’t going to be super in depth (mostly because I’m pretty tired) It’s gonna just have

Saraswati Films

mmpandit

Small thread on the concept of Brahmacharya in Hinduism/Sanatana Dharma versus the idea in other faiths. The central idea of Dharma is restraint. If you look at the Dharma granthas,