#Culture

I've made the difficult decision to skip the Public Record session & instead attend "The Promise of Science" featuring @robannan, @IvanSemeniuk, Alice Cohen & Amy Lemay. It's apparently an open
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Today is time for another long thread on Polish and Russian history. This is a story about the contrast between three cultures: Russian, Polish and also German. It is taken
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In light of current fee hike #JNUProtests , and twitter trends such as #ShutDownJNU , I thought of making a thread on how and why JNU became a bastion of
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Good morning. It is a Sylvia Tamale day. Decolonization and Afro-Feminism will be launched today. 9am EST, 2pm WAT, 4pm EAT. https://facebook.com/events/s/decolonization-and-afro-femini/752516101987766/?ti=cl RIGHT ON TIME @firozem welcomes
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Asian-Americans & African-Americans: Why is There so Much Tension?I keep seeing both groups fight and argue with each other and it breaks my heart. I need y’all to know why
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Pride Media, Day 1: The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula A horror drag competition with an element of fear factor. The cast is inclusive (season 3 has two non binary performers and
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M.A.W.G.*s (occasional) Monday Muse...Art, Impermanence, and the Beginnings of Burning Man“Your desire to do what you want to do has to be greater than the world's desire to stop you.”―
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THREAD: An analysis on Gabriel Martinelli. The boy is a brilliant talent and possesses so many qualities. Simply a breath of fresh air. In this thread, I will provide an
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Listen. We have to talk about Trump, "good blood," Henry Ford, the relationship between Nazi Germany and the United States, and how Make America Great Again is a white supremacist,
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People talk about "cancel culture," when actually what's going on is accountability culture.When people are predators? Yeah, we tell them to leave, because our communities and movements are meant to
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So, why is it that conventions only can ban someone like Diezel now that he has discussed making a fake Covid-19 vaccine card?It's time for another LinnThread filled with facts,
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Thread: As EU debates potential steps in the face of Israeli annexation, here's some factual context on EU-Israel relations, incl. some lesser known aspects.EU relations w/ Israel are one of
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THREAD: Nora and I have a new episode out about what's next. And I want to take a minute to address something that comes up in the episode.#BlackLivesMatter #DefundThePolice
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Happy Pride Month Thank you to our icons - those who did the work so that we can enjoy the freedoms we have today. This is Marsha P. Johnson.
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(THREAD) This is a thread about Donald Trump. If what it says conforms with how you feel, I hope you'll consider sharing it with others. 1/ We need to never
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1/ Last week I posted about automated digital contact tracing apps- lots of discussion since: @CaseyNewton @DKThomp articles, @djweitzner privacy-protective framework https://pact.mit.edu/  now lemme talk about the other kind of
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