#Orientalist

Ajey Pandey

AjeyPandey

Hey folks,  Let’s talk about edginess in RPGs. In particular, let’s go into what edge does for media, how it can go wrong, and why marketing something as edgy tends to

katya

kazbek

this is a thread about borat, but also the world outside of its insular, liberal mess because when i see something bad i immediately imagine how all this money could

Christine Artemisia Kelley

ballardiangorse

I have never seen The Last Temptation of Christ. That is changing tonight. A Scorsese V.O. off the bat. Jesus fuck, Harvey Keitel's Judas is a flaming antisemitic caricature. "I

Onaiz Qutabzada 🇵🇰

YeniceriQ

TRUTH ABOUT THE OTTOMAN CALIPHATE! (an insightful thread)The Ottoman history has been subjected to a great distortion and propoganda by certain Western orientalists who portrayed the Caliphate as just an

John Sanilac 👳

JohnSanilac

People mistakenly fear that polygamy will be legalized because Europe is being slowly conquered, or because Tinder girls are hypergamous. The actual reason is that improvements to VR porn will

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singledadjohnny

I feel like not enough nctzens are having a constructive, nuanced discussion about MAW’s concept and why people are so uncomfortable/angry about it. I’m desi, not arab, but as time

Dr. James Harry Morris

JHMorris89

Today, @pressedconf is holding #pcPopUp2020 so I decided to tweet a short thread to share some resources and my personal story on using open resources. 1/18.https://2020popup.pressedconf.org My first experience undertaking

sarah

portersf

I love @JeffSharlet's work - he's an incisive journalist of religion in the US. Because I'm a historian of early Christians, tho, let's talk about the trope of Gnosticism he

Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ

sankrant

Tired of seeing the dumb ignorance and scientism (science as a dogma) that has assorted Indian "seculars" "rationalist" and jihadis ranting against "cow urine." So here is thread.First some background.

Justin

JpopHomophobe

Thread of some notable converts to Orthodoxy. Some will be well known. some will probably be more obscure. All of them are cool Fr Seraphim Rose probably doesnt need an

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okaysorryy

☆☆ Thread ☆☆MYTHICAL CREATURES OF THE ARAB WORLD (This is going to be a long one, so bear with me) also, apologies @Paindu_Sarkar but this one won out before qaf

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة

MsEntropy

FOLLOW UP THREAD INCOMING -- Just so you know, I'm not *always* evil in my pedagogical approach to "The Middle East." I passionately want my students to understand why "we"

अहमद अंसारी || احمد انصاري

aansari86

White supremacy & epistemic colonialism in design discourse, scholarship, & practice: a basic primer (thread) Historically, design scholarship, like design practice outside of the academy, has upheld white supremacy and epistemic

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seriousalbani

I have been thinking if I should make this post or not, but I somewhat felt compelled to do so for those that know me (that being personally knowing me,

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InfoVedic

● Sanskrit- Language of ScripturesSanskrit is an extremely systematic classical language of Hinduism. The literal meaning of Sanskrit is ‘cultured’ or ‘refined’. It is said that no expression in this

Yara Elmjouie

yelmjouie

President Trump's Department of Justice is requiring my employer, @ajplus, to register as a foreign agent.They claim "AJ+ acts 'at the direction and control' of Qatar’s rulers." That's absolutely absurd