This piece by Yukiko Duke, who co-translated Kenzaburo Oe, Haruki Murakami and Yu Miri among others with her mother, deeply moved me. "It was the best kind of family business." https://t.co/FHcrHGjXoA
Ok this is huge. Members of Anthropological Survey of India and National Commission for Scheduled Tribes are deliberating "a paradigm shift" in the way India defines what makes a tribe. This process needs to be followed and scrutinised closely
https://t.co/V02rV03oTi
the fact that we cant comprehend the loss of a bird and the grief that brings without thinking of something purchasable is part of whats led the world to this moment.
the unacknowledged harm of social media is to one's "cognitive autonomy" -- the freedom to think not what I *want* to think, but whatever I *could have* thought if I had real access to truth/knowledge.
NEW POLL
It's clear: Harris lost A LOT of votes because of the Biden admin's support for Israel’s genocide.
Our poll out today with @YouGov finds Biden 2020 voters who did not vote for Harris name "ending Israel's violence in Gaza" as the top issue affecting their vote choice.
We're excited to announce a series of discussions on Abolition in the Indian context! Join us for the first session featuring acclaimed journalist @sukanyashantha Shantha, focussing on Prisons in India.
Register for this online discussion at https://t.co/kJAGjxXMIx
Learning so much from this ethnography of climate change in a small town called Shishmaref, Alaska. A chilling chapter title asks: We knew the island would disappear, so why do we live here?