Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• One Small Thing
• Banal Misogyny
• Survival of the Sexiest
• Most Feminist Moments in Sci-Fi
• Nils Leonard’s Manic Professional Dream Girl
• ‘Back-up husbands,’ ‘emotional affairs’ and the rise of digital infidelity
• The death of the theorist and the emergence of data and algorithms in digital social research.
• Hong Kong’s protesters demand democracy, but not for its domestic workers
• #Nightshift: Excerpts from an Instagram Essay
• Capital's Offense: Law's Entrenchment of Inequality  
• Community College Students Face a Very Long Road to Graduation

Kerim Friedman:

• Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?
• Why Hong Kong’s ‘Occupy Central’ Movement Has Beijing Very, Very Scared
• Black vs. Yellow: Class Antagonism and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
• Survival of the Sexiest
• The Subtle Art of the Brazilian Majority
• Over (500) Anthropologists Join the Call for a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
• The History Of The English Language In One Chart
• The complicity cost of racial inclusion
• The Mythology of Dog Years
• Understanding Jean Baudrillard with Pumpkin Spice Lattes
• The Woman’s Heart Attack
• Student Course Evaluations Get An 'F'
• The Semiotics of Bubble Tea
• The Great "Out-0f-Network" Scam Is Eating Patients Alive. And It's Supposed To

Bint Battuta:

• Encounters with Bollywood in Kabul
• The Mexican Kitchen’s Islamic Connection
• Urdu as an African Language
• The battle for Devanagari script in 19th-century India
• The politics of Urdu in colonial India
• Palestinian capitalists & British colonial rule
• Palestinian civilians in Israeli labour camps 1948-1955
• Theater & Radical Politics in Beirut, Cairo & Alexandria 1860-1914
• Colonialism and medicine in India & South Africa
• The increase in racism in India
• "Broon Scots", Scotland’s South Asians
• The Armenians of Svalbard
• The Mamluks
• A Moroccan Jewish geniza archive in the Azores
• Was Abraham a Jew?
• Al-?afad? on the two methods of Graeco-Arabic translation
• Delhi's most knowledgeable bookshop assistant
• CairoBookStop: Locating books in Cairo
• The Para-Academic Handbook

Nathan Deuel:

• "Some Treasure Island residents annoyed the homeless use gazebo"
• California is searching for a suspect who broke into a chicken ranch and killed 900 birds with a golf club.
• “The most brilliant scientist would not be able to explain how we are still alive.” 
• "I know your type. You feed off the thrill of inference and small, instructor-led discussion." 
• "Every day I see people on the worst of the worst street, San Julian, sweeping up." 
• "A sketchy rib place in Oakland at like 2:15 in the morning. It’s like, ‘Relax, man. You’ve got the fucking horn.'"
• "'What’s better about the drug store?' I ask. 'I like the people,' he says. Store’s empty." 
• "You don’t touch anyone in Liberia. Not kids, not adults, not other Westerners, not the colleagues you arrived with." 
• "New skyscrapers will no longer be required to have rooftop helicopter landing pads." 
• "The children's author writes large checks out to political parties she loathes." 
• "He urinates in a nearby parking garage. When he gets some money, he walks to a liquor store and gets his bottle." 

Kitabet:

• First Days of the Epidemic
• The Architectural Dilemma of the Refugee Camp
• On “the creation—or the attempted creation—of the Port of Dallas”
• The War on ISIS: Views from Syrian Activists and Intellectuals
• How to Plant a Library
• “After retreating to problems on biological and biographical timescales, historians are now working on spans of time that are climatological, archaeological and cosmological in scope.”
• On Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life
• The Legacy of Turkish in the Armenian Diaspora
• 'Perhaps the only truth that remains is: “this used to be (called).”'
• How Not to Understand ISIS
• Umbrella Revolution: the Academy Reflects on Hong Kong’s Struggle
• The Ethics of Peer Review in the Age of Adjunctification
• “The soldiers had just left and my grandmother’s house looked battered and bruised.”
• Seamus Heaney’s Last Poem

 

ReclaimUC:

• After the freeze: UC privatization since 2012
• Is college still worth it?
• UMass campus police blackmail student into becoming an informant for them
• Colleges rarely expel students found responsible for sexual assault
• This is what the empty room means
• University of Illinois destroyed my career
• Double standards at the University of Illinois
• Outside the free speech cage (2010)
• Meritocracy, lottery, game: notes on the academic job market
• "Yes means yes" is a bad coupling of feminism and the state
• Police massacre protesting students in the Mexican state of Guerrero
• Echoes of '68: youth massacres, repression, and resistance jolt Mexico
• Black versus yellow: class antagonism and Hong Kong's umbrella movement

Jacob Remes:

• "Historians Are Gossips Who Tease the Dead."
• The Supreme Court's untrue common knowledge about policing
• The academic job market is like Scrabble.