Kawase Hasui, Nagare Pleasure Quarter, Kanazawa (Kanazawa Nagare no kuruwa), from the series Souvenirs of Travel, First Series (Tabi miyage dai isshū), 1920 https://t.co/qAb4Hjd7hi #kawasehasui#artinstituteofchicago
A thread on the science of stories:
Stories are persistent: this paper traces back fairy tales across languages & cultures to common ancestors, arguing that the oldest go back at least 6,000 years. One of the oldest became the myth of Sisyphus & Thanatos in ancient Greece. 1/
Asian Americans are still perceived as the “model minority.”
But this is a myth — one that flattens diverse experiences and doesn’t align with current statistics.
Here are misconceptions that have arisen from the trope.
https://t.co/TAh2RtfnMW
A short thread of articles/essays/resources I found useful for understanding the crisis in Gaza: the forced dispossession of Palestinians, the resulting protests and Israel’s violent reaction to them, U.S. media/political biases, and the sociopolitical context underlying it all.