#Essay

I cannot believe this is real, but it is. This USC Professor is on leave after students were offended that a Chinese word he used during a lecture on foreign
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I have some thoughts on Gremlins 2, demonology, Oedipal robots, the Chthulucene, Jay-Z’s wardrobe, Hobbes’ Leviathan, commodity fetishism, the Leather Daddy Gremlin, Key and Peele, feedback loops, John Carpenter, Toy
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How should we create knowledge?We know "The Scientific Method" well: we ask questions then seek answers. But what about having many answers, and no questions?(Paper summary + more) "Here is
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I wanna talk about something personal, related to this ROGD narrative. So, for those who don’t know, ROGD is shorthand for Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. It’s not a medical diagnosis,
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Something few folks have noticed - minor league baseball is being gutted during the pandemic. Teams are not paying. And for a lot of towns that love their Minor League
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YOUR GRAMMAR BOX Kumpulan pembahasan grammar — memahami lebih dekat tata bahasa Inggris dengan mudah — A THREAD Well, guys, utas ini akan berisi pembahasan grammar berkala, jadi tiap aku
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I’ve been quietly writing about the “borderline content” policies at YouTube and Facebook for a while, or failing to - it’s taking me more time than I want to get
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Influential academic journal, Dushu, publishes a daring essay, "How to Avoid Falling into the 4 Traps," by noted liberal economist Prof Zhang Weiying. The oblique attack on Xi comes w/
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History Twitter is out in force ridiculing the latter portion of ACB’s claim here, which, sure, fair.But there’s something to the first part too, something I now only see and
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kpop boys x the little prince the little prince is one of my fav books ever. it’s a classic that needs no introduction, but i honestly gain something new every
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Today’s vocab word: ‘revictimization’. A person’s defensive responses to traumatic experiences make them significantly more vulnerable to becoming targets of future abuse. It is not coincidental when many people with
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Not expecting any major upsets in the next hour, so here we go with the educational tweets on this week's least-read women theologians.https://twitter.com/dirkster42_/status/1311728448725950464 Rachel Adler is one of the pioneers
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Provoked by @YaaAsantewaaBa, here are my best reads on Afropolitanism. As promised, this thread focusses more on the special @AfricaJacs issue titled "Contemporary Conversations: Afropolitanism: Reboot". The first thing I
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I haven't been great about attending all of your wonderful #aag2021 sessions... But if mine catches your attention, here's a thread. It's about two manuscripts I'm working on theorizing the
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We're halfway through Deaf Awareness Month. I want to share the D/deaf writing that has inspired me. This will be a brief thread on my favorite online pieces. (FYI: I
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Just started Little Fires Everywhere!! I'm in for a ride I can tell. Also Mia is definitely an artist she parents in a completely different way. I like how Mia
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