Our great-grandparents, Pollan and others have argued, didn’t raise their kids on guar gum, soy lecithin, and many of the other ingredients common in today’s processed foods. They served milk fresh from the cow, turnips dug fresh from the garden, and c…
A History Buried – the Chinese Massacre of 1871
The Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles was one of the worst atrocities to happen in the city. In the end, as a result of an accidental shooting, five hundred local white men killed 19 Chinese men and boys. Only a plaque currently memorializes the terrible…
racist white feminist architects… American domesticity
[SL Guardian] with a review of domestic bliss meets intersectional oppression in American interior design. The title quote:
” Some racist white feminist architects envisioned a life truly free of domestic work spaces. They sought to free white women, a…
3 founders share strategies for navigating bias and building confidence
Entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups are more likely to face an uphill climb than their white, male counterparts, but their challenges stretch beyond systemic bias and lack of access to capital.
When Dasani left home
Many of you may remember the story of Dasani, the homeless girl in rapidly gentrifying Fort Greene whose experiences were chronicled in a NYT article several years ago. This article follows up on her experiences since, as she attends a boarding school…
How one professor changed the culture of mathematics for his students
Later, as a professor, he noticed a pattern. Ardila’s Black, Latino, and women students who went on to Ph.D. programs also told stories of isolation and exclusion…so Ardila…set out to create, in his own classroom, a new kind of math environment.
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The coolsie to Nazi pipeline
Melbourne’s alternative music scene has been rocked by recent revelations that one of its number is a prominent far-right agitator. Alice McNamara, formerly of 2000s punk band The Spazzys and currently proprietor of children’s music education business …
“I can’t imagine growing up thinking the American dream was real”
F.D Signifier on Bo Burnham’s Inside and “White Liberal Performative Art”: White Habitus, Performative Wokeness and Existential Dread.[auto-transcript only]
The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement
“I’m fresh out of ideas with regards to handling toxicity in the Perl community.”
Anti-Racist Graphics Research (SIGGRAPH 2021)
Theodore Kim’s SIGGRAPH 2021 keynote on anti-racist graphics research: Computer graphics research has a race problem. (SLYT) “What I mean is that our basic scientific formulations have insidious biases built into them. This is an extremely uncomfortabl…