Sunday Reading

L.E. Long:

• When Mental Illness Meets US Gun Culture
• How Azealia Banks Lost a Fan
• Future Tense: An Interview with Kiese Laymon
• The Lobby Behind BART Management
• We Believe? (as Susie Cagle said: good on sports, bad on local politics. Pay attention: this will be on the test.)

ReclaimUC:

• Problems always come from outside
• On grad school and "love"
• Brick, mortar, and MOOCs
• Student loan default rate jumps to 14.7%, the highest level since 1995
• "Rio Salado [College] can pull off 48 starts a year because it relies on more than 1,500 adjunct instructors"
• Adjuncts should do as little work as possible
• College sexual assault investigations grind to halt due to government shutdown
• Cutting physics
• "What passes for reform today…is 'a deliberate effort' to replace public schools with a market system"
• Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 3: Workers' Inquiry
• "Is it possible to write a history of silences?"
• Documentary: On October 2, 1968, the Mexican military massacred striking students at Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Bint Battuta:

• Secular supercessionism and alternative modernity
• The secular nationalism of Urdu
• Endangered Jewish languages
• The work of foreign journalists' fixers in Beirut
• Bruno Barbey's photos of Arab poets, writers and artists taken in 1969
• On actor Shankar Nag, Bangalore's autorickshaw drivers, and Kannadiga identity
• Solitude and Sandaya: The Strange History of Pianos in Burma
• Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut
• Safine-ye Solaymani: travel account of delegation sent by Shah Solayman to Siam in 1685
• The history of the kavaya and thuni, worn by Cochin Anglo-Indian women
• John Berger in conversation with Michael Ondaatje

Jacob Remes:

• Larry Goodwyn (1923-2013) (Historiography) (Politics)
• The problem with electoral politics
• "Some traditional wooden farmhouses survived the earthquake, though they have not survived the neglect" of nuclear evacuation.
• Post-9/11 shell shock, militarized policing, all-pervasive fear, and Miriam Carey
• Playing Indian in the US empire
• How We Kill In War [radio 59:00]
• Lawyer for Haiti
• Who speaks for whom, Jewish edition
• Who speaks for whom, Catholic edition
• The mystery of Dr. Dyar's tunnels

Shalja Patel:

• violence, extortion, incarceration, rape: Somali refugees at Kenya's border
• fragmenting Somalia for clan satellites: Jubbaland Agreement
• in Somaliland 'aid' is a dirty word
• water, thirst, oil in Turkana
• of menstrual cups, water, soap and privilege
• the G8-agribiz recolonization of Africa 
• hundreds of millions of hectares of Africa to agri-biotech giants
• China's bloody frontier in Zambia
• you can beat us, you cannot break us: Sudanese women fight flogging
• dabblers, proficients, savvy set: digital habits of Kenyan teens
• "worth the sacrifice": John Nyamu, abortion doctor, on his year in prison 
• the Israel-Rwanda pact, and the impact on Congo
• deconstructing the baby-rape narrative
• beyond 'the good man'
• heroic masochism: masculine privilege and the uses of pain
• 'egregiously selfish and morally wrong': Gandhi's sexual experiments with girls

Kerim Friedman:

• But a crisis was always there - only it was to be repackaged, not solved
• How a telecom helped the government spy on me
• Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island
• After Suharto
• What We Haven't Heard about Iraq
• American's viral 'I quit' video hits home in Taiwan
• Mazzy Star's first LP in 17 years
• Yes, You Can Be Fired for Liking My Little Pony
• Look under your seats! closure for everyone!
• Why rich Chinese are hiring US women as surrogates
• Heterosexual men, you know I think you're the greatest, but please stop doing this forever and ever and ever.

nathan jurgenson

• "maintaining a good conscience at the end of suffering and death isn’t necessarily a sign of moral development"
• "white man’s humor as more important to [Gawker] than compassion for people who suffer"
• "Being part of a band born on the internet means a daily sift through a barrage of sexually explicit abuse"
• "We have elected people to govern us who do not believe in government"
• "there's nothing more exciting or engaging as my mental intercourse"
• "We've come to expect a certain, rather limiting narrative from the female-fronted rock band"
• "poor people will suffer the most, and rich people will suffer the least. There are some things that transcend partisan divisiveness"
• "“tourist art” would better describe this way of seeing everything, even the most obvious things, all at once"
• "the consistency in online iterations of the travelers’ gaze"
• "the Horse e-books fiasco suggests that we are more than ready to mistake bots for humans and vice versa"
• "Why is it so much easier to blame Facebook than look at the misogyny & hatred it reflects?"
• "the ipad pathetically asks: “Do you still think I’m pretty?”, shifting the gendered allusions into full culmination"
• "by blending it with a more Victorian medium of calligraphy, the texts became more substantial in effect"
• "people conceptualize the world into online and offline, which makes for a lot of very awkward experiences"
• "an implicit assumption that any space characterized by digital media must somehow be less real than one that isn’t"
• "Surface, however, is like the Gaga, Ke$ha, or perhaps even Miley of tablet computing"

Nathan Deuel:

• "Motherfuckers are like ‘I got a black boy friend,’ and their shit sounds like Klan Fiction 101."
• If there aren't at least 5 books on Bowie's list you don't want to run out and inhale, you may be dead
• Only web sites necessary to protect lives and property will be maintained
• Drones are coming? Nope. Drones are here. 
• What was the worst that could happen? I’d lose my job..die?..What would Jesus do? No..fucking Batman
• When he was angry or having a bad day, he would put on a 50-pound weight vest and jog to the Walmart a few miles away 
• "Who is this man? Is he escorting her to safety? Or perhaps abducting her? We’ll never know."