Sunday Reading

 

Jacob Remes:

• "The artwork will be viewable by the public when the Exclusion Zone opens again, anytime between 3 and 30,000 years from the present."
• The corporate lawyer who is trying to keep DuPont from poisoning all of us
• Will the Obama Administration criminally prosecute anyone at VW?
• The fight over Tom Mulcair's future as leader of the NDP comes into the open.
• Serial season two "comes across as superior journalism but inferior meta journalism."

Actually Aisha:

• Reconsidering Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric: A Symposium
• Seeing Lili Elbe/ Rise of the Gender Novel / Red Durkin Live Tweets The Danish Girl
• Amandla Stenberg on Girl Power, Race and Hair
• Anatomy of a Scene: Jane Eyre's Red Room
• On Touching Naked Bodies (In The Clinic)
• The Chronicler of Indian Food 
• From "summer, somewhere"/ I'm Going Back To Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense
• 'he had a remarkable gentleness and courtesy in his dealings with women'/ 'everyone always lets you do whatever you want'
• Hum Hain Happy
• 1=1
• A Feminist Analysis of Mastani's Religion and Caste
• The Best of The Ladies Finger 2015
• Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

Kerim Friedman:

• ‘The Zhaos’
• Taiwan Elections 2016
• France Spent the Last Year Crushing Free Speech
• Clinton Made Big Bucks From Speeches to Big Banks
• The Case of the Missing Hong Kong Book Publishers
• Why This Socialist Feminist Is Not Voting for Hillary
• Eastern Oregon once had a Malheur Indian Reservation. Guess what happened.

Sridala Swami:

• Pakistan's liberals and rape
• What language do they speak in Paksitan, DC Comics?
• Artists boycotting Angouleme Grand Prix's male only long list 
• BD Egalite Statement here [Eng]
• Kuchipudi and the shaping of Telugu identity in cinema
• The Social Boycott of Dalit Scholars (or, what is happening at the Hyderabad Central University) 
• On Savitribai Phule's 184th birth anniversary, a primer
• followed by a longer essay
• The Sunflower Collective's interview with Juliet Reynolds, Part 1 of a three part series (to be published)
• Also from The Sunflower Collective, a review of Jeet Thayil's BBC3 radio documentary on Allen Ginsberg in India
• Speaking of Thayil, Hoshang Merchant's essay on Thayil's poetry, on the occasion of the publication of Thayil's Collected Poems
• Gwendolyn Brooks' poems for children
• Dress codes for visiting God
• On ordering cow dung patties online

ReclaimUC:

• UAW International overrules academic workers' BDS vote
• Can't disrupt this: Elsevier and the 25.2 billion dollar a year academic publishing business
• Why do universities salivate over money-losing grants?
• "Princeton uses square footage—as in the physical size of its entrepreneurship offices and classrooms—as a metric to evaluate the rigor and quality of the program."
• China downturn means trouble for U.S. colleges seeking revenue from foreign students paying full tuition
• Waiving the age of reason
• "American vigilantism is never racially innocent."
• "Bundy and his followers do not want to end the enclosures, but instead to carve out their own enclosures within the shell of the state's."