#Cultural

Yashar Ali 🐘

yashar

1. Instagram posts like this don’t happen by accident or because someone like Tom Brady wants to celebrate a country he visited. Tom thanks his host Sheika Al-Mayassa bint Hamad

brtt

berhett_

Friendly reminder that if our pasts were audited the same way public figures pasts are audited, we would all be cancelled too. Angry audiences aren't practicing empathy nearly as much

Marcel

MarcelMcClinton

Got this from a friend about abortions. Worth the read. "The unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally

Dr Donna Yates

DrDonnaYates

Before I lose myself in the blog post I'll start a slow-moving thread of cultural objects that were NOT safe, NOT in better hands outside of their country/community of origin.

Kaitlyn Greenidge

surlybassey

I dunno i remember when there were novels about black ease, the few of them published, they were often denounced as fake and not real enough and i think that

Steven Goldstein

stgoldste

Im glad Broken Hill is still getting attention. For anyone interested or who discusses the fossil in any scientific/popular context-this article is essential reading. It should be an essential citation.

Mel Smith

iamMelsmith

Brandy was such the champ last night. And people really hate that. The cultural, critical, and commercial legacy of Brandy is *actually* paramount. It’s not made up in someone’s head.

Shadow Petoscary

shadipetosky

Following up on the “Creators not Consultants” tweet. It is so important for ORGs and allies to encourage the hiring/making of trans writers vs. trans consultants.This means ending the practice

Omar Khan

omaromalleykhan

The big problem w/'countering extremism' framing is that it profoundly (& dangerously) mistakes the nature of racism: 'extremists' arent picking up their ideas & attitudes from obscure 8chan sites, but

Mary Murphy

mcmpsych

New paper out today @PNASNews. We explored the network structure, cultural frames, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science—specifically in Open Science and Reproducibility across all sciences from

Mistakes Were Made

ItBeganInThe90s

THREAD: While the Powerhouse Museum's Ultimo site has been saved, heritage listed buildings in Parramatta are still under threat for demolition to build a second museum site along Parramatta River's

Nathan Ruser

Nrg8000

THREAD. An estimated 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang (roughly 2 in 3) have been demolished or damaged. For the second part of our Xinjiang Data Project release we look at nearly

100 nics

parkinglotchair

My petty art twitter complaint is thinking ppl r asian on here bc their entire art identity revolves around asian aesthetics and then I find out they're white ^_^ you

Jeffrey Schiffer, PhD

jeffschiffer

When Europeans first stumbled upon Turtle Island there were 40 Million #Indigenous peoples speaking 1800 different languages. These societies had complex systems of mathematics, science, health & economy, all grounded

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

Straight white "moderate" men are some of the most insufferable bc they think they're the "default" humans at the center of the universe, called to correct everyone else's "excesses"—including the

London Mining Network

londonmining

On 15 October, mining giant BHP will hold its London AGM. The company says it's a responsible miner with an eye on the future. But everywhere it goes, it drains,