For Many Members of the Arab American Diaspora, Mansaf Offers a Taste of Home. [slNYT] We were Arab at home, mostly, and American in public. On weekends, Arabic music and the scents of cumin and sumac spilled through the windows in our otherwise sedate…
‘Sun-powered orgasms are fantastic’: why I went to live in a desert cave
Armed with only a solar charger, a vibrator and some marijuana gummy bears, I rode out the pandemic – and my fear of spiders – in a California commune.
Common knowledge but important nonetheless.
Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way. (courtesy of this AskMeFi question)
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The Other Afghan Women
In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them. (SLNYorker) Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210918074905/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-af…
A case of the Palestinian blues
Recording under quarantine, a musical trio gives a classic blues song an Arabic twist, exploring new depths for Black-Palestinian solidarity. [+972 Magazine] For Kareem Samara, a British-Palestinian multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound artist, it…
Video killed the radio star
The very first two hours of MTV [SlYT]
Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021
His leadership ushered in alternative conceptions of gender, race, and political power that would, eventually, shake the world.