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nativepunxunite: “I come from the people who introduced you to guerrilla warfare and had a fifth of the us army searching for my people. My parents have created an intellectual asdzáá (woman) that is just trying to break the barriers of assimilation and the push of western thinking. I am a product of peaceful protests…
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In Praise of Failure
In Praise of Failure youmightfindyourself: By COSTICA BRADATANNY Times, Dec 15, 2013 If there was ever a time to think seriously about failure, it is now. We are firmly in an era of accelerated progress. We are witness to advancements in science, the arts, technology, medicine and nearly all forms of human achievement at a…
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gloriaramirezart: Moleskine rant #4
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The Other Conquest (1999)
The Other Conquest (1999) medievalpoc: aguavodka submitted: There was a very compelling Mexican feature film called The Other Conquest (1999) that touched on the codices and the traditional knowledge that either transformed or went underground with the arrival of the Spanish. The film focuses on a Mexica scribe named Topiltzin (Damian Delgado) who witnesses the violence…
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I first heard of ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ when one of the adjunct curators asked me if I could suggest Native American artists as the exhibition organizers had realized, rather belatedly, that they hadn’t yet considered this constituency. I submitted a shortlist of names that included Jimmie Durham; however, the curators ignored these artists, providing…
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Who Ain’t a Slave?
Who Ain’t a Slave? azspot: On a late February day in 1805 in the South Pacific, Amasa Delano, master of the Perseverance, a sealer out of Boston, boarded a distressed Spanish ship carrying about 70 West African men, women, and children. Delano spent about nine hours on the vessel, called the Tryal. He talked with its sailors, who were…
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gastrophobia: zpxlng: All the materials for my Die Hard/Christmas lesson. My students seem to be enjoying it so far. (It’s a race between teams and there are prizes involved.) I used to think I’d seen Die Hard, but now I realize it was Lethal Weapon.
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theatlantic: What MOOCs Can’t Teach “I like to think of education as giving people superpowers.” With this metaphor, Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng summed up the purpose of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, at The Atlantic’s Silicon Valley Summit on Monday: They’re designed to help people gain discrete skills like coding or algebra or French.…
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patriciaalvarado: Beginning, middle, and ending screenshots from 2 performance pieces I did. In these pieces, each around 7 minutes in length, I reenact beauty rituals I practiced as a brown teenager who just wanted to be white. Patricia Ann Alvarado