#Scholars

Kilderkin

RileyGryc

You know what? Since someone asked & I've got the time, let's talk about cultural homogenization.Both what it is & how it happens, & ultimately what it does & how

Dr. Katja Thieme 👀

Katja_Thieme

Excellent thread.I'm very glad there's a scholarly piece now, extensively sourced, analyzing how Steven Pinker's media access allowed him to sway reporting on the petition to the LSA to take

Christopher Polt🏳️‍🌈

CBPolt

One of my fav. pieces of Egyptian art, which I sometimes share in my course on talking animals in ancient literature: a "satiric-erotic" papyrus depicting anthropomorphic animals (it's originally one

𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓪𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻

thekervincible

we don't "hunt" heads. we TAKE them. headtaking serves as vengeance, form of payment, settle disputes, or displays of strength, and a rite of passage. as opposed to hunting (from

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anyasrevenge

Since a lot of people don’t know where to start when it comes to educating yourself, here’s a thread of resources (a lot that are by black authors and some

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

In honor of #Juneteenth a quick thread about the Black Muslim rebellion in Brazil only 30 years before Juneteenth known as the Male` Revolt. During Ramadan in 1835, the

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

Nine-slide THREAD for my academic friends and anyone who has drawn inspiration from the writings of Hannah Arendt, one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century and an influence

Trust

HerAotKnowledge

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆 « 𝗘𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗘𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃

Mr. JABIR

jishaq1

Let me also help with something, even though my brother from the Scum Department @Sayeed_bello has said alot. The earliest mention of Amina was in the Kano Chronicle (MS 1890

Jennifer Piscopo

jennpiscopo

The Wall of Moms in Portland joins a long history of women activists using their maternal identities to shame and goad authoritarians. We can compare to #latinamerica. 1/5https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/20/portland-protes

Philip Loring

ConserveChange

We had nothing but the best intentions w/ our paper, but as settler scholars it is simply not possible for us to know if our manuscript might do harm. One

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

I wish to clarify something about my critique of "magical thinking", because it involves a number of claims that I've actually never heard or read anyone else express before (the

Jason Lyall

jaylyall_red5

5 observations from @MujMash's outstanding article on why the Taliban have managed to outlast the US THREADhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html?smid=tw-share 1. The Taliban have suffered extraordina

Ayesha Ray

DrAyeshaRay

Since 2019, India has been the center of regular protests that are a response to authoritarian and extreme measures legislated by the Modi government. The rise of majoritarian nationalism is

Dr. Deaf Historian

DeafHistorian

A thread on race and sign language interpreting for my fellow white deaf people. Dr. Ford highlighted the centrality of race in the work of black interpreters. And how important

Studio Glibly

NoTotally

The rhetorical space between white leftists saying "class first, class only" and Trump overturning popular-but-Obama-era legislation has been shrinking since 2016 but the white supremacy on the left is a