Sunday Reading

A Collective Sunday Reading of Wikipedia:

• The Antikythera Mechanism
• Duck and Cover
• Fictional Los Angeles Police Department Detectives
• “Cosmic meat" was floating around in space that would drop through our atmosphere similarly to meteorites.
• The Pig War
• List of Tautological Place Names
• Levantine mansions of ?zmir
• Modern Kannada literature
• "Mixed-race people are the fastest growing ethnic group in the UK"
• The Lawn Chair Pilot
• Criminal Tribes Act
• Mid-Atlantic English
• Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting
• Naming customs of Taiwanese aborigines
• Mithraic mysteries
• Black Indians in the United States
• The List of Lists of Lists
• List of types of sartorial hijab
• Alien Kulture
• Large Scale Structure
• Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy
• Arabian Mythology
• How many Tri-State Areas are there?
• Party of the Poor (Mexico)
• The top 52 heirs to the British Crown
• Timeline of Christian missions

Bint Battuta:

• African Soldiers, Governors, Nawabs & Cultural Brokers in South Asia
• The Jewish refugee who composed the All India Radio signature tune
• A Mughal Princess in Mexico
• Argentina's Last Jewish Cowboys
• Saharan Jews & French Algeria
• The Anarchist Movement in North Africa, 1877-1951
• La Presse Francophone d'Égypte numérisée
• The race to document Aramaic
• Arabic Islamic Calligraphy in the Chinese Tradition
• A China "Specialist" in Istanbul
• The Albanian with the Burmese Tattoo
• Ethiopia's Armenian community
• Harry Ekizian, Armenian genocide survivor & world wrestling champ
• Stories of immigrants' first days in the United States
• Caryl Phillips & Sugata Bose talk about oceans
• Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism
• The first translation of the Book of Mormon into Arabic, in 1893
• The Crusades in Arab School Textbooks
• Tales of a Medieval Cairene Harem
• The Jataka tales in 140 characters
• The story of the Encyclopædia Iranica
• R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Days
• Poetry on prescription
• Medieval Typos

/kaw·re?d?/:

• "possessing a female body is weird: discursively, my body doesn’t entirely belong me"
• "HRC as president will be used to disguise militarism with a friendly white female face, read as feminist."
• The Western Cultural Imperialist Bingo Card
• Cheat Sheet for a Non- (or Less-) Colonialist Speculative Design
• Middle Eastern Queer Music
• “black” wasn’t about pigment or some flatpack identity. It was primarily a political term, borne of a recognition"
• america’s new kaffirs: insecure white folks
• FBI Files on African American Authors and Literary Institutions Obtained Through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act
• Feminism without women
• Queer Women and Street Harassment: A Complicated Issue
• Palestine, Blackness and the Complexity of Racism
• Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care" by Yasmin Gunaratnam, reviewed
• "Celebrating Vulnerability" -  on disability, heteronormativity, and body politics
• Emory Douglas and the visual language of the black panther party 
• We Are All Still Colonizers: Americans’ Inextricable Relationship with Israel’s Colonialism
• Dark Threats and the Normalization of White Terror: Aboriginals, Muslims & South Americans in the Ottawa Shooting 
• United Nations, Homonationalism and Queer South Asia
• ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism

Karen Gregory:

• Sharing Economy’s First Strike
• The Sharing Economy Has a Race Problem
• #Nightshift: Minneapolis
• Fight is on for Stable Hours
• The Sharing Economy: 21st Century Technology, 19th Century Worker Protections
• In the Aporia of Ontology and Epistemology: Toward a Politics of Measure
•  Google’s Newest Search: Cancer Cells
• Review: Dog Eat Dog
• Data and Discrimination: Collected Essays
• Writing About Academic Labor
• In Praise of Fake Reviews
• Studs Terkel Interviews Maya Angelou

Kerim Friedman:

• Mr. Rogers Talks To The Wicked Witch About Being Misunderstood
• For Asia’s Gays, Taiwan Stands Out as Beacon
• The Filmmaker Any Cinema-Literature Progressive Must Know
• What is a tribe?
• Tears for Bhopal
• Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict
• Jim Crow returns
• Catcalling video: Hollaback's look at street harassment in NYC edited out the white guys.
• Taiwanese Facebook Users Are Tagging a Death Row Inmate in Their Travels to Demand Justice
• What’s So Bad About Gluten?
• Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong

ReclaimUC:

• There are enough homeless schoolkids in San Francisco to fill 70 classrooms
• Two decades of "paper classes"
• Class shock: affect, mobility, and the adjunct crisis
• The education of a scholar who chose to become a black man
• The hidden costs of going Greek
• Berkeley students want nothing to do with racist Bill Maher
• Policing Palestine on Campus
• How US students are bringing the Israeli occupation home
• Could 43 disappeared students spark a revolution?
• National strike on November 5 for the disappeared Mexican students
• Violent crackdown on students engulfs Egyptian universities
• Yes, we are the champions, but your Giants are not our Giants...
• The Giants won and capitalism is the loss
• Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 4: The State

Jacqui Shine:

• Reports from the Field: On Grief
• The secret fantasies of adults
• Black freedom fighters in Ferguson: Some of us are queer
• Walter Benjamin's radio plays for kids
• Black citizens, white government
• Stories of some of the 306 people shot by Chicago police since 2009

Nathan Deuel:

• When LA's police chief toured Venice Thurs he was screamed at by a snake charmer, saw an arrest, and had a bomb scare
• “It could be any one of us, because there is no guarantee where a patient will walk in."
• "Two things are very clear to me. God I hate the office. Man I love being outside." 
• "I ended up attracting terrible frat boys and making shallow convenience-friendships with pretty, sad girls" 
• “I’m amazed you found us,” he said over his shoulder. “You ever seen so much of nothing?” 
• "Caring is for cops on CSI and doctors on ER and muscle-bound Marines in the movies." 
• "People who want to learn their ancestral language don’t want or need the same things as academic linguists."  
• "He shot himself in Florida or something? Who cares? He shot himself..Good! May they all have twee descendants."
• "He spent his 21st birthday in a foxhole with two Schlitz beers, daydreaming about what it felt like to stroll free."
• “I'm proactive looking to meet a woman I want to get married..I'm looking for a woman that can handle my flaws.”
• “During the civil war here we did just as bad. Behead people, cut off ears ..There was just no YouTube"
• "She stopped off at a KFC near a train station by her home, but ended up staying for a whole week."
• “I get really affected by bestiality with children..I have to stop for a moment..maybe go to Starbucks.”

Kitabet:

• The Giant Rat Balloon at Union Protests is Protected by the Constitution
• The Secret Gardens of Syria’s Refugee Camps
• The Red Cross’s Secret Disaster
• “Not in a million years did I expect some people to be upset about the portrayal of the conquistadors.” 
• Quenching Istanbul’s Thirst with Aqueducts and Cisterns
• The Seismic Soundscapes of Human Activity
• “a totally lethal, totally toxic distortion of masculinity — the kind that says that if boys aren’t manly, or gentlemanly, they can be gunmanly.”
• What’s Next for Burkina Faso?
• The Widow Colony in Delhi
• Music of the Psychedelic Islamic State

Jacob Remes:

• Harassing journalists at the U.S. border
• Meet the undocumented workers who cleaned up after Sandy.
• How the Red Cross failed after Isaac and Sandy
• Sexy Halloween costumes for men
• When industrial food was imagined as healthy (and white) [radio 18:53]