Sunday Reading

Actually Aisha:

• Julius Malema's Tailored Revolution
• Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom
• Yuna on Fashion, Race and Not Showing Her Hair
• My 'Oriental' Father: On The Words We Use To Describe Ourselves
• The violence of caste: Why I have changed my name to Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
• Black Britons and the Politics of Belonging
• Looking East: Tinkle's flawed depiction of its new superhero
• Álvaro Enrigue’s New Novel Reimagines Colonization as an Epic Tennis Match
• "The Horror at Red Hook"/The Ballad of Black Tom
• Y'all Need To Take Better Care Of Your Wolves

Reclaim UC:

• "Here, now,there is no way to have frat house party without the specter of rape, no way to picture college sports without a history of racial violence."
• 5 damning findings from the Baylor investigation
• Students with nowhere to stay
• "In essence, the reformists have devised ingenious plans to save existing PhD programs without providing more academic jobs or addressing the circumstances that have created the PhD-holders’ employment problem in the first place."
• Counterinsurgency and the shadow university world
• Are Palestinian scholars our colleagues? Boycott and the material limits of friendship
• For first time in 130 years, living with parents edges out other living arrangements for 18- to 34-year-olds
• "These strikes will be disruptive for a reason: things cannot go on as they are."
• University examiners stage mass resignation over pay offer
• Chilean students disguised as tourists crash presidential palace
• "It was in the field of education that there began to develop a new wind that would change the country."
• Special pleading: on the identity politics of "Blue Lives Matter"

Kerim Friedman:

• "Civility" Fence?
• Why Sci-Hub Will Win
• This Chinese laundry ad is racist, but it's hardly the first
• Daughter of 'abducted' bookseller testifies
• Ma Ying-jeou’s Legendary (Trade) Millions
• Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?

Zack Fair:

• Prince Had A Videogame, Here’s How You Can Run It
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• <3 of a Heartless World
• Fixing the Bugs
• FFS get Gamergate out of my mentions
• Notes on Cho-Am: The Myth of Closure
• Notes on Military-Industrial Complex: Finger on the Button
• Metagames: Playing at Good and Evil
• Istanbul, Texas

Aljavieera:

• America’s atomic vets: ‘We were used as guinea pigs – every one of us’ (Reveal)
• "Neither the U.S. government nor the state of California has acknowledged that the California Indian catastrophe fits the two-part (1948 UN) legal definition of genocide"
• "There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks."(ProPublica)
• “You see, I told you they didn’t plant those trees for us.” – The End of Black Harlem (NYT)
• "If one were to draw lines between The Broad and these other monuments, the resulting triangle would, very roughly, point in the direction of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel about half a mile away, where Fredric Jameson once discerned the hallmarks of postmodern space. "– The Broad: Class Hatred, Concentrated 
  Picasso and the Fall of Europe (T.J. Clark in LRB)
• Detroit Resists is Occupying the U.S. Pavilion(and see also their exhibition catalog)
• Neoliberalism: Oversold?ask (LOL) a few IMF economists...
• Welcome to Disturbia: "Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick"
• A century later, the legacies of the U.S. military intervention of the Dominican Republic persist... "the United States’ occupation of the Dominican Republic remains hidden from public memory and relegated to the footnotes"
• "LinkedIn called me a white supremacist."You won't believe what happened next (actually, yes, you will).
• "what if he used the same technology to figure out which women were potentially contemplating abortion, and send them ads on behalf of anti-choice organizations?"

zunguzungu:

• African, Muslim, and Gay
• In Conversation
• Performing Language
• Turning Thirty
• No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.