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Analyses on the Colonial Gender System
medicine: A collection of academic articles examining colonization’s role in erecting a gender system that futher legitimizes whiteness and capitalism at the expense of nonwhite people and our cultures Colonialism, Two-Spirit Identity, and the Logistics of White Supremacy Binarism: Myths and Reality, a great piece on binarism’s relationship with colonialism and white nonbinary trivialization of…
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Don’t Buy That 4K TV, Vacation In Bogota Instead
Don’t Buy That 4K TV, Vacation In Bogota Instead parislemon: Jay Cassano on the science behind why you should spend your money on experiences, not things: One study conducted by Gilovich even showed that if people have an experience they say negatively impacted their happiness, once they have the chance to talk about it, their…
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theartofanimation: David Pavón Benítez especially like that one with the llama!
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mentaltimetraveller: SOL LEWITTBLUE GRID, BLACK CIRCLES, YELLOW AND RED ARCS FROM ADJACENT CORNERS
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I really can’t wrap my mind around what’s happening in Kenya
jackwhitesguitar: Imagine what the Kenyan people are going through right now. You wake up to news that the University your child or niece or nephew or cousin or neighbour or childhood friend is going to has been stormed by gunmen. The same people who were behind the mall attack less than two years ago. Imagine…
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ianference: Nearly a decade ago, I took the tunnel system at Rockland State Hospital to the gymnasium/theatre building. After photographing the gym, I noticed a panel removed, leading under the stage. Crawling under the stage, I reached a point where there was a hole in the floor – and directly beneath the hole, a bank…
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The Greek for “to bring forth or to produce” is tikto. The word techne, technique, belongs to the-verb’s root tec. To the Greeks techne means neither art nor handicraft but rather: to make something appear, within what is present, as this or that, in this way or that way. The Greeks conceive of techne, producing,…
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lafilleblanc: Francis Hewitt Untitled Drawing, Overlap Series, 1966 ink on paper (via)
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vjeranski: When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.―Agnes Martin
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How many dark-skin or afro-Latino anchors do you see on Spanish language newscasts?” Medina said in the statement. “How many indigenous Latinos do you see on any newscast, English or Spanish? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/nahj-rodner-figueroa_n_6885504.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000048 (via diasporadash)