#Cultural

AHAA

AHAAamericanart

Humboldt’s 6-week visit in 1804 generated a network of connections that influenced American culture during this formative period. CW Peale escorted him around Philadelphia and then to DC, where he

Isaiah Dawe ID. Know Yourself

IndigenousX

My own opinion about #Colourism is that skin colour is not the predominant issue. It does have an impact yes, in different ways. And white supremacy context mattersBut w/ my

Sonia Trivedi

MsSTrivedi

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/01/17/406246770/how-namaste-flew-away-from-usYoga teachers teach overblown interpretations of the word to try grounding their classes in a sense of authenticity, or even holiness. The word namas

Rozin

kangrozin

Did I hear demands to start a thread on why Purwokerto is *the* future?https://twitter.com/kangrozin/status/1263711898349891584 Ok, let's start with a simple observation: Purwokerto is the future because many major cities in

rishi

rishi_c_

chilis being a post-columbian food that originate in the americas means a bunch of south asian food is only possible because of trade routes established by settler colonialism, which is

Cliston Brown

ClistonBrown

The populist left has an extremely myopic and uninformed view of the American electorate. They believe (incorrectly) that a majority of Americans support progressive policies and that once a sufficiently

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raniawrites

Remember on #OrangeShirtDay that even though the last residential school closed in the 90s, under colonialism and white supremacy, violence never disappears it only reinvents itself. The violence of residential

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Chatting with someone about Critical Social Justice in medicine, with the question being will some real things that are happening lead to horrible things led me to really appreciate the

Natural Resources Committee

NRDems

Chair @RepRaulGrijalva today released the following statement on President Trump’s planned event at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota, which will include a fireworks display that had not been practiced for

Rebecca F. Kenney📚📝🎶

RebeccaFKenney1

Thoughts on drawing inspiration from other cultures for fantasy nations, like Leigh Bardugo's books? Writers are told to avoid "just another European-style fantasy setting," as that's been done many times.

Juana Hayde Espinoza

juanaewrites

In recent years, I have come to appreciate Bettie Page. I've seen this quote from Page where she says that if God didn't want her to pose for racy pictures,

Irami Osei-Frimpong

IramiOF

If the COVID quarantine hadn't of affected the stock market, it wouldn't have triggered a political crisis.It wasn't the employment crisis and conditions that got to congress. It wasn't the

AdriAnneOnline

adrianneonline

u guyz know wut i was jus' thinking--& i've got a whole well-considered essay in my head to support this which i will spare your twitfeeds--but there's a common song

Sparrow/Liz (semi-hiatus)

UntoNuggan

Hey I know that disabled people get told to "try yoga" a lot when we need actual medical attention, and it's really frustratingBut also...yoga is a spiritual practice that involves

Benjamin D White

Waldenkent

‘Most teaching follows the standard patterns of cultural ritual that has remained largely unchanged despite many attempts to reform and change it’ 1/x from Nuthall, ' The Cultural Myths and

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ There is this technocratic idea that Economics is a scientific discipline like Physics. Not true.Subject to the "conservation law" that the world cannot consume what it has not produced