Sunday Reading

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• Triple Jeopardy - Archival images of the Third World Women's Alliance's newspaper
• straightening our hair - bell hooks on the politics of hair
• evolution of the map of Africa
• on decolonising the coloniser
• reflections on violence, law and humanitarianism
• Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution
• Epistemic Islamophobia and Colonial Social Sciences (PDF)
• towards a viridian feminist future

Linda Rodriguez:

• “Decolonize your tortilla!”
• “Every person who lives outside his context is always a bit of a ghost, because I am here, but at the same time I remember a person who walked those streets, who is there, and that same person is me. So sometimes I really don’t know if I am here or there. And at times, the longing to be there is greater than the necessity of being here.”
• “In short, even though everything described above is everyone’s responsibility, the authorities and people of Cuba have a lot of work ahead of them if they have any interest in reducing marginality.”
• “The Haitian Coat of Arms”
• “Historian Piero Gleijeses argues that it was Cuba’s victory in Angola in 1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa.”
• “The tree that says ‘yes’: Césaire’s Nature and Revolutionary Universalism”
  “‘Why is this institution having so much difficulty hiring Latino, US-born Puerto Rican and Latin-American administrators and curators when there are so many other vibrant spaces nurturing them?’ says Arlene Davila, a professor of anthropology at New York University.”

Bint Battuta:

• Karbala Drag Kings and Queens
• A women's theatre troupe in Cairo in the early 20th century
• How Saudis Write Their History
• An account of Tipu Sultan's defeat of the British in 1784
• Portuguese periodicals published in India during the 19th century
• Kannada for the North Indian
• Kushti wrestling in Dubai (and photos)
• On Dubai, diaspora, and exile
• Conceptualising Indian Diaspora
• South Asians in Australia, and Indian Ocean circulations
• Documents in the UK's India Office Records on Indian emigration
• The Lost Indians of Kenya (1971)
• The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
• How Iyengar Yoga evolved as a brand
• Bangalore's popular Infant Jesus Shrine
• The history of Thessaloniki's Yeni Camii (New Mosque)
• An Arabic version of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
• BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on Hindu ideas about creation
• The competing worlds of written Turkish
• On Japanese school culture
• The novels of Tamil writer Perumal Murugan
• The contribution of Peranakan Arabs to Malay literature and journalism
• Lebanese-American artist and writer Etel Adnan

Karen Gregory:

• NYC Schools Draft Rules That Restrict Protest
• The Post-MOOC Hype Landscape
• Glitch Racism
• Mulhall v. Unite Here
• NYU Grad Union Victory
• Catalyst for Organizing
• More on Hyperemployment/Feminized Labor
• What kind of thing is "neoliberalism"?
• "He was the victim of wealth."
• China Lands on Moon

Kitabet:

• Ursula K. LeGuin: “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.”
• A roundtable on recent books in Ottoman environmental history [pdf]
• Syria’s Kurds and Turkey
• “when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake destroyed the capital,…Haiti, though it’s only seven hundred miles off the coast of Florida, was a journalistic backwater.”
• The Homeschool Apostates
• Margaret Mead’s Love Letters to Ruth Benedict
• “The writer might have no responsibilities whatsoever, but the translator has only responsibilities—or at least that’s the popular perception.”
• Dreezus
• Camden, NJ: “a major metropolitan area run by armed teenagers with no access to jobs or healthy food.”
• The Silence of Our Friends
• The British Library puts a million scanned images from 17-19^th C books online
• Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness for a Hundred Years
• The Unbearable Wrongness of Koushal vs Naz
• Readings for the 7th Anniversary of the al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing

ReclaimUC:

• "Cops off every campus, and out of every neighbourhood!"
• Workers + students vs. administrators + police + courts
• Police violence won't stop this new alliance of students and workers
• "All of these [UK] universities have been occupied between September and December 2013"
• "The neoliberal university requires cops on campus"
• A right to the university
• Restricting protest at NYC colleges
• NYU victory: A catalyst for university organizing?
• In loco parentis? On the limits of procedural reform
• "A death in jail is a political death"
• Insecurity at the corporate university
• "[T]he [academic] research enterprise itself resembles a pyramid scheme"
• Humanities as pyramid scheme
• US rare in spending more money on the education of rich children
• All Presidents Are Bastards
• Every black girl needs a makeover: For Rachel Jeantel

Jacob Remes:

• Finding people of color in medieval European art
• Fighting the law and winning
• Three notes on Japan's hard-right turn
• Rob Ford is the personification of Harper-era Canada

Kerim Friedman:

• On Academic Freedom and the BDS Movement
• The Dubious Arguments for India's Gay Sex Ban
• Yadkin River Bridge Replacement
• Why We Need More Than Three Genders
• In Palestine, Occupational Hazards
• A Look At Demographic Change in Singapore
• Reinstating India's gay sex ban is a huge step back for the country
• Undocumented: How an Identity Ended a Movement
• Jacobinned: The Story Behind the Story Jacobin Refused to Publish
• Rome: Sex & Freedom by Peter Brown
• What Happened On Easter Island A New (Even Scarier) Scenario
• The Fascinating Story of Why U.S. Parks Are Full of Squirrels
• How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter
• The Criminalization of Everyday Life
• Teaching what people would rather not learn