#Cultural

Evolving thoughts. I read @DavidTreuer 's fine book Heartbeat of Wounded Knee and in it he gives a broad history of the original peoples of NA. He traces various groups
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Mostly here to listen, but also trying to reflect on current events in a way that is useful & meaningful. I think there needs to be some caution around Indigenous
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Vadivelu is overrated That man's not half as funny as y'all give him credit to be I get that he's now a cultural icon, and i don't dispute that. I
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So I know I'm several years too late, but I finally have seen Star Wars. I watched the original trilogy last week. My favorite things: 5. My surprise that Yoda
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Hey #Southlake, there's a lot of conversations going on right now regarding @Carrollisd, the cultural competence action plan drafted by the District Diversity Council, and what it may mean for
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Changing meaning of the Chicks / Dixie Chicks controversy in cultural memory (a thread) My main area of interest concerns how the meaning of cultural artifacts and phenomena change over
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it just occurred to me that the one (1) ethics class i was required to take in engineering school focused on the ethics of not making mistakes (eg Therac-25, Chernobyl)i
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The recent attempt to make a distinction between John Lewis and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) misunderstands the legacy and meaning of Black Power. As a political project, Black Power was
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Today's the 5 year anniv of one of my fav social campaigns I've ever worked on.Let’s talk about Dying Highlights, our insanely ridiculous 16-part content series for the 2015 game
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Today’s #SundayStar is birthday boy Gene Kelly, star/choreographer/director/hunk, who was born 108 years ago today. Steven Cohan classes Kelly’s star persona as ‘virile’, characterised by ‘athletic, sexually aggressive dancing’.
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A lot of my jewish mutuals are talking about Holocaust remembrance day today. I just want to say, as christians, ex christians, and cultural christians, it is our job to
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One of the training programs we have at @AfricaDHeritage looks at how Kenya's cultural institutions engage audiences online.Staff at the archives and museums always ask, how is social media important
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Who predominantly thinks intersectionality is racist? The extreme right. Why? Mostly because if we actually properly applying it means upending the white male cultural hierarchy. When you used to privilege,
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I have thoughts about yesterday. From a political side I say this- KY GOP leadership has had no problems bullyin pro-public ed members of their caucus. Folks who haven’t stood
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a thread on the cultural significance of Indian classical dances, because apparently we need it Indian classical dances come in many forms, each originating from different parts of the Indian
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I enjoyed the last couple of days @CommunicateConf - the best environmental communication conference out there! Here's a thread of my favourite take home messages from the event... 1. Personal
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