Sunday Reading

Linda Rodriguez:

• Juana Briones y su California: Pionera, Fundadora, Curandera
• “Emily Johnson Dickerson died at her home in Ada, Okla., last week. She was the last person alive who spoke only the Chickasaw language.”
• “I would sit on the sea wall and I would watch boats go out to sea and imagine another world. I left by plane but I still feel the boats remain a visual and metaphorical symbol of escape.”
• “Ño Remigio Herrera was perhaps the most famous surviving African in Cuba in 1900.”
• Texas’ Other Death Penalty

Frank Pasquale:

• Some say retail exploitation will end in fire, some say in ice.
• We won "no-fly" but we don't know why.
• Rob Horning was right.
• Policy spectrum ranges from necropolitical pulverization or mere precarity.
• Bare life for lower air fares.
• Authoritarian Ukraine.
• This koala knows climate change is happening.
• Financial statements are like fictional works “based on a true story”.
• What the health care sector looks like to finance.
• Incredible opportunity to drain away middle class inheritance prospects.
• Locke 2.0: In the end, all the world was Gulf States.

/kaw·re?d?/:

• The Names They Gave Me
• My Gender in the Face of Colonialism: A Quest
• Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic World
• Haifaa Al Mansour's Wadjda: Revolutionary Art or Pro-State Propaganda?
• The Sexual Geopolitics of Popular Culture and Transnational Black Feminism
• The Queer Shamed and Shame Queered
• Africans in Chinese Communist Propaganda
• mothering in an age of gendered islamophobia
• From One Third World Woman to Another - a conversation with Gayatri Spivak
• Angela Davis: "support BDS, and Palestine will be free"

Jacob Remes:

• Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)
• Sony's prison radio
• A government agency is born.
• "The safety or hazard of most of the industrial economy is opaque."
• Canada's war on science
• The Philippines' post-typhoon housing crisis
• The Philippines' post-typhoon debt crisis
• Using contemporary extreme weather to understand climate history, and vice versa
• The Congress Hotel strike (2003-2013) haunts the academy.
• Striking University of New Brunswick professors laugh to keep from crying.
• "Like, here's what I had to say about grad school."

Bint Battuta:

• "Before the bomb, Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad appeared to be made of books"
• The burning of a Tripoli bookshop
• Memories of Bangalore's circulating libraries
• The Srinagar library run by Muhammad Latif Oata, who cannot read
• Delhi's century-old Marwari Library
• The Delhi shrine of an Armenian Jew from Persia who became a Sufi mystic
• The cuisine and food customs of the Bohra community
• Why Korean director Kim Ki Duk is popular in Kerala
• Kerala's Pakistani citizens, "aliens in their own birthplace"
• Mozambique's Gujarati Muslim community, "Pakistanis who have never seen Pakistan"
• What glass beads in the Kalahari Desert tell us about the Indian Ocean trade network
• History Speaks Many Languages: An interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• Darwin in Arabic
• Translating Revolution: Hannah Arendt in Arab Political Culture
• "Bahrain, more than ever, needs individuals like Ibrahim Sharif"
• Letter from a 2nd-century Egyptian boy to his father
• Ancient Lives project: help transcribe ancient papyri
• Of Ottoman Ghosts, Vampires and Sorcerers
• The influence of Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" on Star Wars
• The Unhysterical History Of Islam In Australia
• Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person

Nathan Deuel:

• "A rocket launcher at one of Lebanon’s most popular parks turned out to be a wooden installation set up by a boy."
• "It's coming. Just be patient," he said last week. "Governors can't make it rain."
• "A bear wandered onto a slope full of skiers last week, apparently not hibernating because of the balmy weather."
• "I remember the dog was wearing a bow tie..Is that someone I know from camp? No, that’s Ashton Kutcher."
• "Everybody's convinced, look, this is going to show how bad the officers are or how good they are."
• “It’s a McDonald’s,” said Martha Anderson, the general manager, “not a senior center.”
• "People rushed to take pictures with the “suicide bomber,” said the newspaper."
• "Lebanon is better served by me staying alive."

Karen Gregory:

• “The sickening incident of police brutality was caught by a surveillance camera.”
• "...not the typical recklessly endangering another person case."
  
• “In the second place, give me a fucking break”
• “But none were quite as bold as Pamela Raintree”
• “Texas taxpayers would like to know where their $10 million equity investment has gone"
• The patent calls this "a promotional gift ... to build goodwill."
• “Who better to reveal our generalized inability to find joy in autonomy than Miley Cyrus?” 
• “Fantasy’s function is to stand in for the lives we think we are avoiding”
• “The short answer is that I did my undergraduate degree in Sociology, and whatever anyone says, its persistent disciplinary object has always been the social contract.”

Kitabet:

• Auerbach in ?stanbul
• “It would be only one house out of thousands, but I wanted to prove it could be done, prove that this American vision of torment could be built back into a home.”
• No One’s Job: West Virginia’s Forbidden Waters
• The Architecture of Ariel Sharon
• The Anthropology of Walking
• “In the decades that followed the armistice, the world warmed up and the glaciers began to retreat, revealing the debris of the White War.”
• Whose Anatolia? Mapping Complexities and Shared Histories Between Kurds, Armenians, and Turks
• Friendly Robots of the Soviet Union
• “And so, in one of the most conservative states in Nigeria, he started holding underground meetings with other gay people.”
• Five Google Search Poems
• Responses to Grantland’s Trans Outing
• “when neak ta appear on the factory floor…they are helping the cause of Cambodia’s largely young, female and rural factory workforce by registering a kind of bodily objection to the harsh daily regimen of industrial capitalism”
• No One Is Hrant Dink

ReclaimUC:

• What is privatization? Or, is Berkeley still a public university?
• A bang, and then a whimper: Some thoughts on the death of Cooper Union
• Eating in school cafeterias isn't apartheid and other things I shouldn't have to tell grown people
• "Nowhere has the 'Do What You Love' mantra been more devastating to its adherents than in academia."
• "[T]he federal government is profiting from the state reduction of funding for public higher education"
• An MLA story
• And then theory wept: Precarity talk and Miley's sadness
• BDS "love letters"
• Academic kindness
• "The question to ask now is not, how do we bring it back. That’s impossible and quite undesirable. The question is what new forms of genuinely democratic self-organization might rise from its ashes? To even begin to ask this question we must first of all get rid of the police."
• The good white folks of the Academy
• SF: Once a mecca, now a mirage