Sunday Reading

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• The Aesthetics of Exile
• Repetition and Death in the Colony: On the Israeli Attacks on Gaza
• The Unknown History of Latino Lynchings
• Muslim women and the civil rights movement
• “Gaza is Israel’s Soweto"
• How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era
• Informal settlements and urban poverty as cultural commodity 
• Reading Fanon in Palestine/Israel
• bell hooks interviews Lil Kim

Kitabet:

• “I could only be a good writer on the Middle East to the extent that I was a good listener.”
• Gaza Notes
• Making Graffiti an Iranian Art
• Do Not Compel Me To Sing: On Nigol Bezjian’s I Left My Shoes in Istanbul
• The Violence of Climate Change in Egypt
• “Heaton is a canary in the coal mine of sorts, a window into a psychic cauldron seething inside the consciousness of a fading empire.“
• Copyrighting Cartography With Fictional Places
• Ambulance Workers in Gaza
• Documents of Our Common Ground
• A History of White Americans Gawking at Black and Brown Bodies
• “The Syrian refugees, now more tangible and audible than ever, gradually risk becoming a meta-category for fear and distaste.” 
• Gulf Sounds
• Feminism and the “50 Shades” Hangover
• A Plague on One House

Nathan Deuel:

• "I fast the night before, eating a only light meal of a bacon cheeseburger, four chicken McNuggets, & a small fries”
• They're Native Americans. The Caucasians usually take the corner by the bathroom. The black folks are on the side
• "It can get a little old seeing homeless people eating better than the rest of us.”
• "Survival mode kicked in when he treated his own injury and sought sustenance by eating crickets and moths.”
• "It sounded like five minutes of straight gunfire...It seemed like it wasn't real.”
• It's time to reform sex offender laws. 
• "Actual security staff members figured out something was amiss.”
• "The huts cannot be built anywhere. Participating churches and consenting property owners may allow the huts” 
• "Turns out, that bump was a person – a homeless woman who...will never wake up.”
• "What if the solution to homelessness was simply giving people a place to live?”

Kerim Friedman:

• Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition
• How the West Chose War in Gaza
• Four things you should know about Detroit’s water crisis
• Writers or Missionaries?
• Peer review scandal forces resignation of Taiwan cabinet minister
• Democracy and Our Obsession with the Law
• Revisiting On the Waterfront
• Priorities of the New BJP Government
• Why I object to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza: Israel turned the occupied territories into a prison.
• Why you should sign a petition calling for the Department of Labor to investigate contingent faculty working conditions
• Scholar David Shulman on the Gaza Bombings
• The appointment of a historian whose work is unfamiliar to most historians shows scant regard for the impressive scholarship that now characterises the study of Indian History and this disregard may stultify future academic research
• Reeling in the Raj

Jacqui Shine:

• Orchard Beach photos
• "You were a child once, too."
• Let's Stop Singing Songs About Women Who Don't Know They're Beautiful
• Wikipedia list of pastries
• "PLEASE NO JERKS"
• Caity Weaver is the bravest American.
• "All of the survivors remember the trees."

Reclaim UC:

• Facing austerity, UC considers discrimination
• Reporting rape, and wishing she hadn't
• Reproducing the academy: Librarians and the question of service
• "Adjunctivitis"
• Make college free
• "Universities need de-bureaucratization, not more technologized bureaucracy."
• We will bring everyone: Abolishing "the box" and administrative violence at NYU
• The darker side of university endowments
• Israel pays university students to defend it online
• How to pay for a free, non-racist higher education
• A well-oiled cheating machine
• The return of school segregation in eight charts
• Broken windows is the new stop and frisk
• The curious grammar of police shootings
• A people's cup
• Lethal warnings