Sunday Reading

Jacqui Shine:

• Happy birthday, Sylvia Rivera
• "We didn't queer marriage. It straightened us."
• "A cat of unusual size"
• Amazing amazing NYT piece about shadow transit systems

Kitabet:

• The Painful Consequences of Liking Fake Subway Maps
• “In 1850, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert predicted that in a century’s time, Istanbul would be the capital of the world.”
• Remembering Naz
• Losing Music
• “There are family trees, and there are trees from hell that are filled with snakes.”
• Un-bearing
• You Can Delete, But You Can’t Forget
• “Because I’m not coming back to this building, not coming back to this neighborhood, not coming back to Jerusalem and maybe not coming back here at all.”
• update: #kasaraniconcentrationcamp
• Fighting for the Favelas
• “Everyone who does not fit inside or cannot reach Italy’s three mosques does their devotions inside unofficial mosques, or “garage mosques:” converted sheds, garages, basements, apartments, old storefronts, warehouses and gyms.”
• Remembering the Workers of the Domino Sugar Factory
• Detroit’s Fight for Public Water is also the Nation’s
• “New York might be a city of neighborhoods, but Nychaland is a zone of its own.”

Kerim Friedman:

• Laughing at the Spirits in North Siberia: Is Animism Being Taken too Seriously?
• Facebook’s algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are right
• Going Without Water in Detroit
• On Kafka by Václav Havel
• Nicholas Wade and His Determinist Genes
• who’s really got tenure?
• Highly Placed Media Racists
• Before Malala
•  copy to mine
• What “Do the Right Thing” tells us 25 years later
• The Trap in the Supreme Court’s “Narrow” Decisions
• Why Harris and Hobby Lobby Spell Disaster for Working Women
• The 8 Best Lines From Ginsburg's Dissent on the Hobby Lobby Contraception Decision
• What to do with $2 trillion
• The NSA's Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

Reclaim UC:

• Walking without papers at ASU, the "new American university"
• The looming crisis in higher education
• Homeland security goes to school
• Muslim-bashing and the UC student elections
• Approaching a tuition limit?
• Arne Duncan, Larry Summers, and the higher education myth
• The true cost of "student athletes"
• At a time of austerity, 8 universities spent top dollar on Hillary Clinton speeches
• Policing pride
• The ugly American goes to Chiapas
• "[T]he actual function of the police which is and has always been to protect PROPERTY and the interests of the powerful."
• Exporting Gaza: The arming of Brazil's World Cup security
• "The U.S. diaspora represented on the team…are not refugees from a military conflict, or children of migrants who fled conflict or sought labor opportunities elsewhere, but instead part of the massive and unequalled U.S. military presence abroad."
• Fighting for the favelas

/kaw·re?d?/:

• HRC and the vulture fund: Making Third World poverty pay for LGBT rights
• Instagram and Art Theory
• Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India: Tempest in a Tea Pot
• Solidarity and Its Discontents
• "The [Algerian] clubs became a site for contesting colonialism”
• Homeland Security Goes to School
• Social engineering and France's veil ban
• Remembering the past: Bangladeshi fighters for Palestine of the 1980s
• nice guys are a problem
• Antinomies of neighborliness, or anti-blackness as a reactionary persistence
• Waziristan, US
• Why Are You So Proud? LGBTQ Detention and Deportation 

Nathan Deuel:

• "The idea is just as much about sending positive vibes to the city’s commuters as it is helping the homeless.”
• "For a [limited] time I could live in the charade, the little bigness that I thought by then I certainly deserved.”
• “Avoid this if there’s any way you possibly can, even if it’s legal, because it’s awful.”
• "Fuck me by the navy beans. I will GAT you all night.”
• Fat camps offer pudgy pets 'pawlates,' 'doga' and 'Barko Polo'
• Has someone yet put their Twitter handle on their gravestone?
• What if there’s a Zelda and a Nan for every one of us, man and woman alike?
• "I’d be happier if my house hadn’t burnt down.”
• “The way I measure it is, I hope somebody would do that for me.”
• "The millionaire actor also wept in a patrol car on the Thursday night ride to the precinct.”
• "A 90-yo California woman, her dog and 3 neighbors were sent to a hospital after being attacked by a swarm of bees”
• "Next to a massage parlor, a doughnut shop & a liquor store, more than 2 dozen people sat inside a darkened business"
• "I definitely feel out of place sometimes...It'd be nice to know what everyone's talking about for a change."

Jacob Remes:

• Happy Fourth of July [radio 11:55]
• Undermining postwar Japan's legacy of pacifism and democracy
• Remembering anti-war activists in the World War I centennial year
• California's water shortage and the future of agriculture
• What's happening to Canada's erstwhile social democratic party?
• Fort McMurray and Canadian internal labor migration [radio 53:59]
• Harris v. Quinn I: The attack on public sector unions
• Harris v. Quinn II: The attack on people with disabilities and their families
• Harris v. Quinn II: "an ideological imperative to separate home from work and the public from the private"
• The paucity of woman film directors
• "The city has glowed in the light of democracy and cowered in the shadow of oppression."

Frank Pasquale:

• Fictitious capital.
• Threshold concepts in Vegas.
• Nobelists agree: ban killer robots.
• On the network power of Google.
• Infodemiology.
• Let there be markets, ruat caelum.
• Objectification competition.
• Untested ed reform as violation of research ethics.
• Corporate social science-mart.

Bint Battuta:

• Grieving Cosmopolitanism in Middle East Studies
• Reconceptualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East & Asia
• Translation in the Early Modern Mediterranean
• The Perils & Possibilities of Inter-Religious Translation
• The depiction of Arabs in 1930s Turkey
• The Bangladeshis who fought for Palestine
• Hamlet's Arab Journey [intro]
• American Travelers in Egypt, 1837-1903
• Gujarat’s "Rangoon Wallas"
• The Arab Traders of Singapore
• Little Armenia, New York
• Growing up Armenian American in New York
• What Was Left Behind: Music of the Ottoman Empire
• Moscow's School of Migrants’ Languages
• Searching for 10th-century vegetarian communists in Bahrain
• Letters Received by the East India Company from its Servants in the East, Vol. I, 1602-1613
• Islamic Medical Manuscripts
• Tropical Baroque
• Indian Matchboxes
• Urban planning lessons from Bangalore (part two)
• There Is No Garden For Us To Return To
• Wole Soyinka's Reith Lectures: "Climate of Fear"
• Thoughts on Late Style by Edward Said
• Becoming Zerlina: From first rehearsal to stage