Sunday Reading

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• Neoliberalism, Foucault and algorithms
• "A Bitter Disappointment," Edward Said on His Encounter with Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault
• "I am still sister outsider”
•  Punished for Being Poor: The Problem With Using Big Data in the Justice System
• Israel’s Pride Movement: Sexual Liberation or Sexual Subjugation? 
• Virginity Testing: Racism, Sexism, and British Immigration Control
• Queers of War: Homonationalism, Militarism, and Imperialism
• Freedom From Education: Decolonial Study for Abolishing the Prison-University Complex 
• Neoliberal Mothering and Vaccine Refusal 
• "One can always tell how politically unstable the peripheries are by the number of hastily put-together tribal dances from the hinterland that are broadcast"
• "This false connection with Israel and collaboration associates queer people with treason"
• De-Stabilizing the Emergent Binary of Empowered Girl vs. Muslim Girl 

Jacqui Shine:

• Cat performance review
• "White people problems: A Time for Burning After Ferguson"
• (Howard says she takes comfort from the saying “Every woman should have a forgettable second husband.”) 
• "Up from Pain"
• Please go watch Homicide: Life on the Street so we can talk about it.
• List of lemonade topics
• CIA Canoe Club
• We Have Always Lived with the Franzen (thx, Jane Hu!)
• Teenage Dreams

ReclaimUC:

• UC --> VC
• UC's Chief Investment Officer envisions coal-fired power, cement factories as "green" investment opportunities
• From "Fuck The Draft" to "Fuck The Police": what prevailing conventions of civility have made unspeakable
• The Salaita case and the big money takeover of state universities
• Civility and racism at the University of Michigan
• Heriberto Yépez on "la nueva civilidad"
• "[T]eachers can use a behavior-monitoring app to compile information on which children have positive attitudes and which act out."
• How to take over a school board and privatize the schools (audio)
• Colleges' pursuit of prestige and revenue is hurting low-income students
• "[A] leisure pool is a great equalizer"
• Why are Harvard grads still flocking to Wall Street?
• Monetizing student data
• My feminism starts 300 years ago
• Who killed Robert McCulloch's Father?
• The poverty of culture
• Interview with participants in the London book bloc

Nathan Deuel:

• "We tried to divide the body with a scalpel, but it didn’t work. So I asked the fire crew if they had a chainsaw.”
• "So far I think I am more punk than anyone else I have met in life.”
• “Don’t use Waze in Jerusalem.”
• "No check-in desk, just plainclothes staff members milling around the lobby holding iPads. Which was pretty annoying.”
• One test question: ‘Have you seen dead bodies in your city?’ "And almost all of them have checked that one.” 
• A priest in Sydney said people driving by the church threatened to “kill the Christians” and slaughter their children 
• "In Portland, artists began tethering toy horses to the rings to bring attention to them.”
• "I was many many many hours and miles away from everyone..Where would my next hug come from? What if I froze to death?”
• "Some of the girls started to shed tears as they began eating because they were so afraid. We had to eat it all up.”
• "It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on…"
• A company in L.A. -- a city with an excess of the tiny dog -- regularly airlifts Chihuahuas to cities in need.
• "This might speak more to the desolate wasteland of the life I’ve led up to this point, but I’ve rarely been as proud."
• "It was only after he buried a man alive that he was told he had become a full ISIS fighter.”
• "They thought I was something else. And that’s all it is, I got no hard feelings against sharks.”
• "Within hours of workers flooding the field two weeks earlier, hundreds of migrating birds appeared.”
• "A pair of dog's paws were later left on her doorstep.”
• "Officials say no one at the department wanted to kill the animal”
• "Often these are skills the billionaires don’t have – most of them wouldn’t even know how to turn their yacht on.”

 

Karen Gregory:

• Dignity
• Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem?
• Forced Labor in Tech
• A Closer Look at Apple and Foxconn
• Money Between Friends
• Commuter Students Using Technology
• Against the Surveillance Capitalism of Big Data
• "it's okay for the tech industry to scrape your data off every last surface you touch" 
• The Myth of Magical Futures
• My Feminism Starts 300 Years Ago
• Calling it Out 
• Everybody's Authority
• The New Jim Crow, Chapter One

Kerim Friedman:

• Segregation’s Long Shadow
• Ukraine: What Putin Has Won
• Wage Theft Could Total $50 Billion a Year
• The History of Female Titles: Mistress, Miss, Mrs or Ms
• Why Don’t More Women Commit Fraud?
• Anthropologist Brian Ferguson Challenges Claim that Chimp Violence is Adaptive
• What the 17th Century Can Teach Us About Vaginas
• The Origins of Uyghur Nationalism
• Leonard Nimoy's Mameloshn: A Yiddish Story
• Scholars Take Aim at Student Evaluations’ ‘Air of Objectivity’
• Gang of thieves takes millions of RMB from corrupt officials' homes
• Genovese, Slavery, Capitalism
• Closing Thoughts on Civility
• Upping the Antihero

Jacob Remes:

• What are the rights of women? [radio 53:58]
• The gentrification of the Vancouver Public Library's eclectic photo file
• Electchester, a non-radical union housing coop
• "Request to interview federal scientist sparks 110 pages of government emails"
• Where Are Animals in the History of Sexuality?

Kitabet:

• “Hey fucker, you’re buried/We’re coming to find you”: on search & rescue in Aleppo
• Imposition
• The Hobbyist Exception (for Drones)
• “Little is confrontational or sexy about the business of earthquake hazard mitigation”
• Who Killed Robert McCulloch’s Father?
• Ready for the Big One
• “the midwife who sees young kittens in cervixes” & other 17thC anatomy lessons
• Carved in Stone: What Architecture Can Tell Us About the Sectarian History of Islam
• The Work of Cross-Dressing in the Ottoman World
• “at the fullest expression of its treatment, breast cancer is total strike”
• Stray Thoughts on Hip-Hop and Ferguson
• Buying Books in Cairo
• "The trestle tables are everywhere: rickety, colorful little embassies of something messy, grounded, and different"
• Palestinian Bagpipers for Scottish Independence