May 2012
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“Rice is revered in many cultures, despite the common assumption amongst many of...”
– Felicity Cloakes, ‘How to cook perfect long grain rice’
A confession: I sometimes feel personally offended if people serve me shittily cooked rice. For a minute or so—and then I start applying it to face because rice is rice, and if I want perfectly cooked rice then I should go and cook it myself.
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Red Summer of 1919 & Other History America Should...
karnythia:
I see a lot of “slavery is over, black people should move on” rhetoric on the internet. And mostly I roll my eyes & keep it moving. But I notice that people who say these things lack historical knowledge. They don’t know about the Red Summer in which race riots broke out in 36 cities. The government blamed unions, Bolsheviks, & even the NAACP for what happened since it was...
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10 Facts You May Not Know About Asian-American...
gondoleia:
by Jenn Fang
It’s almost the end of May. Do you know your Asian-American history?
Most of America isn’t aware that May is Asian-American Heritage Month. It’s a celebration that started in 1978, when Congress urged President Jimmy Carter to declare the week of May 4th ”Asian-American Heritage Week.” (That date was chosen to coincide with the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants...
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“Rice is revered in many cultures, despite the common assumption amongst many of...”
– Felicity Cloakes, ‘How to cook perfect long grain rice’
A confession: I sometimes feel personally offended if people serve me shittily cooked rice. For a minute or so—and then I start applying it to face because rice is rice, and if I want perfectly cooked rice then I should go and cook it myself.
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nahintho:
jhameia:
nahintho:
jhameia replied to your post:realistically speaking, what can you do with a phd in english?
Not a hella lot. It’s assumed that if you go all the way to your PhD, you’re on track to become a professor. You can also be a teacher, writer, editor. If possible, develop contacts and skills outside academia so you can break into other fields.
thanks! but i’m a little...
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Reminder: Submissions for Steam-Powered 3: Further... →
Beep beep! Another reminder!
Steam-Powered 3: Further Lesbian Steampunk Stories is an anthology of steampunk stories that feature lesbian-identified protagonist and which strives to be inclusive of underrepresented (and often misrepresented!) identities in steampunk and lesbian fiction.
Although “steampunk” is a fairly broad genre, we are interested in the following:
Stories set in the past...
nahintho:
jhameia replied to your post:realistically speaking, what can you do with a phd in english?
Not a hella lot. It’s assumed that if you go all the way to your PhD, you’re on track to become a professor. You can also be a teacher, writer, editor. If possible, develop contacts and skills outside academia so you can break into other fields.
thanks! but i’m a little confused by the last one...
Philly Weekly now hiring: Arts & Culture Editor
Email I just got from Stephen Segal, former non-fiction editor of Weird Tales and Quirk Books:
Philly-area friends,
I am looking to hire a new arts & culture editor for the Philadelphia Weekly, ASAP.
The right person for the job is a sincere, soulful arts lover with a visionary bent, with happy experience managing people and projects in a publication environment, and with a sophisticated...
Brown Canada Creative Arts Workshops. Legacies of...
racismfreeontario:
browncanada:
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Digital Storytelling workshop with Mariam Ahmad & Asam Ahmad, Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 & Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 5-8pm @ Don Montgomery CRC
Workshop content provided by: Asam Ahmad, Graduate of Asian Arts Freedom School, Mariam Ahmad
What: In these workshops we will explore the marginalized and/or hidden histories of the...
“I have spoken to countless lawyers and they have yet to discover any cases in...”
– Congresswoman Corrine Brown on Marissa Alexander (Jacksonville, FL) Ruling (link)
sorry — really should have posted this earlier.
ALSO:
DONATE to her legal defense fund on WePay: https://www.wepay.com/donations/178785
TWITTER page: https://twitter.com/#!/FreeMarissa
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Coupla Avengers questions...
How can there be a higher number of cool female characters than usual in these things and still such a fail for the Bechdel Test?
WTF was that thing with Cap giving Nick Fury a tenner?
OK so Bruce contains the Hulk by being angry all the time (which I think is pretty awesome), then how is it he contains the Hulk easily on the ground fighting the aliens, but didn’t earlier when the...
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