Sunday Reading

L.E. Long:

• Death to American Complacency
• Hey Mama: Kiese Laymon in a conversation with his mother about respectability
• A nasty piece of cornbread
• A discussion of "genderqueer" and the appropriation of trans identity
• The spider's thread: On moving forward in visibility
• Cesar Chavez and immigration
• The game I played when I was scared to death of being deported
• Remembering Frankie Knuckles
• Fred Moten, An ecology of eloquent things (video)
• Against ordinaryism
• #WHENWOMENSPEAK
• Stop telling women to smile
• Rape-revenge fantasies

Kitabet:

• The Slave Ship is Architecture
• A Mural Erased: Urban Art, Local Politics, and the Contestation of Public Space in Mashhad
• Idols in the Archive [pdf]
• The Djinn of Aiman
• “So it was with dismay, indeed horror, that I discovered his new book presents the history of cinema, from its origins to the present, with hardly a female in sight.”
• How Soviet Artists Imagined Communist Life in Space
• The Irrepressible Charm of the State: Dershane Closures and the Domestic War for Power in Turkey
• “Much of archaeology’s mortuary landscape is peopled with similar lives that ended in asylums, battlefields, slave quarters, distant workplaces, prisons, and long-forgotten cemeteries.”
• Teaching the Camera to See My Skin
• Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir
• "The petri dish was made for separation." 
• Tavaf, a series of images from ?stanbul’s metro
• When Hills Hide Arches

Kerim Friedman:

• Big Page of Sunflower Movement Links
• How we stopped speaking Yiddish
• The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France
• Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions
• terror painting
• On Sunflowers, Sunlight, and Sovereignty
• Errol Morris, on Donald Rumsfeld
• A nation of slaves
• The Consumer Student
• A Return to a World Marx Would Have Known
• Faking It: Women, Academia, and Impostor Syndrome
• An ambitious study documents the long-term reign of the 1 percent
• Black Pathology and the Closing of the Progressive Mind
• Investigation of the ethnic tension between the two groups of "Koreans"
• It’s Our Act of Killing, Too

Mark Healey:

• Martín Alé: Fidelidad mata followers: desafíos de la era digital
  
• Emmanuel Ortega Villagrán: La carta abierta del hijo de una "nana" a quienes insultaron a Anita Tijoux
  
• Marcelo Zlotogwiazda: Villas + Countries = Tomas de Tierras
  
• The Tower of David: The tallest "slum" in the world
  
• La frontera es el sitio más caro de Venezuela
• Juan Carlos Calderón: Las víctimas de la guerra contra el narcotráfico (en la costa de Ecuador)
• Alejandro Hope: La violencia en México, 2007-2011
• Ben Dangl: Miners Just Took 43 Police Officers Hostage in Bolivian Mining Dispute

Reclaim UC:

Bint Battuta:

• India's historical engagement with the world
• "What is the purpose of Indian knowledge?"
• Indian troops in China
• Indian politicians in Britain
• Indian priests in Germany
• Delhi's Jewish community
• China's Muslim communities
• Syrian traders in Istanbul
• Europeans in the Indian Ocean
• Jewish scriveners and Arab lawyers in Jerusalem
• Gertrude Bell in Syria
• The Jewish State of Eastern Arabia
• The "Islamic" seals of British colonial officers
• Richard Helms on the Gulf states, 1973
• 13th-century Yemeni recipe for paper
• 19th-century Yiddish letter-writing manuals
• Early 20th-century Turkish music policies
• Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
• A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761
• On growing up in Bombay Dyeing Colony (West)
• Being mixed-race in Lebanon
• Yahya Hassan and the Danish Integration Debate
• Europe's Troublemakers: Wu Ming

Frank Pasquale:

• Reclaim public ownership.
• There is an alternative to student loans.
• Air pollution kills 7 million per year.
• $332 billion in bets on the yuan.
• Deregulation kills 8.
• Flash boys silent on newest tricks.
• On those who have to work and those who live off capital.
• U R loser.
• The denial of death.
• Is work feeling like a treadmill to you?
• Richest one-thousandth of US has minimum net worth today above $20 million
• We can only survive if we know everything about you.
• West Virginia as sacrifice zone.

Nathan Deuel:

• "A man who hoped to start a violent revolution in 2010 was sentenced to more than 400 years in prison."
• "A fisherman caught a 9-kilogram crocodile in the Beirut River Thursday, a rare sight in Lebanese waters."
• "Privileged parents are trying [above all] to ensure that their children do not fall out of the upper-middle class."
• "Sitting on a ticket of this value was very scary," he said.
• “It sets a bad precedent for a billionaire to say ‘come hither’ this early on, and some people actually do.
• "The first biggest problem when you're homeless is where you'll be at night.. the second biggest problem is where you'll be during the day."
• "Dirty, smelling of alcohol or carting a multitude of belongings, they cannot easily blend in with people around them
• "D.C. General..just blocks away from the Capitol dome and a taxpayer-funded baseball stadium serving crab nachos."
• "Refugees always look for more affordable products due to their difficult financial situation."
• "Happy new year," his sister Carol Liu said, greeting her uncle. "Sorry I forgot the weed killer."
•  "People are scared to spend money. They are saving for the black days coming."
• "We really got hungry ... but they burned my heart before they burned my body. They burned my heart from the inside."
• "A prison two stories below the ground in which they detained, interrogated and tortured people"
• Javier is home.

Aaron, shamelessly using Sunday Reading to link to his own series of posts on the ICC Witness Project:

• (for reference: Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project)
• (Some Provisional Writing on) “Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project”
• Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #124
• Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #140
• Reading the ICC Witness Project: (un)Witness #20, #22, #34
• Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #69