#Anthropology hashtag

[bestiascoaching12]

Best Online Coaching for Anthropology

[totallytrucked]

just had to write a 2 page essay about corn

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Turning a scam on people...

So on LinkedIn, if you post under the hashtag #OpentoWork grifters pour in with a scam that goes something like this: • Where do you want to work? Where do you live?

Send me your resume, I'm a recruiter.

• Our AI bot says your resume is not up to snuff we can offer you editing services, go to non-company website to see this other person.

Usually something like Fiverr, or an employee not related to Adecco, Superior, or whatever company they claim to work for.

You could just simply report them to the companies they say they work for... Or you could counter grift on them. lol. Which is what I did, because I've gotten so much spam over the years in terms of phone calls and grifters, that for my own amusement, I play with them.

When it became clear they were only grifting over the resume versus placement and helping to find a job, I countered their grift and said, "I'm sorry you haven't really sold me." (Basically) "and it's clear from what you said you never really read my resume, or you'd find out that I'm into UX," (which one of the people didn't know what it was, which made it worse for them)

lol I said, tell you what since I have a degree in Anthropology, have taken classes in psychology and sociology, I will charge you 50 dollars an hour to fix your grift so it sounds more believable. And then reported them to the companies they said they belonged to.

Don't fall for this grift. You can do the AI check yourself. And real companies shouldn't be trying to take money from their workers in this way.

I've caught other scammers too... so yeah. I caught a fake pest control guy once which was wild. I caught a fake restaurant. And I tried to get news media to pay attention to the fact that the Atlanta shooter was lying because he was and no one had checked any of the yelp reviews for the stores, so I posted it up, found an Asian news organization, posted the screenshots of the reviews and asked them to try to force the news media to get people who spoke the languages to report. 'cause I'm getting better at smelling scammers.

But if you would like to report all of those people on linked in and have some fun, go ahead, do as I did and counter offer them.

[huymd-swh00972]

Week 7: Digital Citizenship and Health Education: Body Modification on Visual Social Media

Young people are unsafe when reaching this type of content on social media, and solutions to it.

In general, social media contents had a lot of diverse contents, and for some of them, they tend to be a bit dirty. Body modification is perhaps one of the more popular examples of this. The topic itself was all about the change of the actual human body image for reasons regarding to religions, cultures, as well as personal reasons. One study mentioned that any modification of parts or all of the human body presented in either individual or collective actions could be considered “body modification” (Rolle and Galliot, 2022). As the social media become part of the daily lives, the body modification content becomes somewhat popular among users, with some disclaimers (Tiggemann, 2022). However, this popularity can cause a lot of issues to the users, especially the younger audiences.

Children and teenagers contributed a high number in the social media users, and as this type of content become mainstream, this causes the problem regarding those young citizens trying to immitate whatever they see on the screen, regardless of the danger that they may face in exchange for their different gender expression that they may receive (Murphy, 2019). For example, the videos about cutting the tongue on TikTok is extremely popular among, surprisingly, most youth. This is dangerous since younger people are starting to interact with the world, and seeing these videos would potentially make them believed that those can be done in real life. There have been numerous cases of children injured or even died from these body modification copycats.

There were many solutions to this particular issue regarding this type of content. To begin with, this type of content should be available only to registered users from 18 and up. Children should also be taught about how dangerous some of the act on the social media, especially in the body modification field, to prevent further accidents related to this trend. Not only that, there should be some legal steps to ensure children are distracted from any of the dangers that these body modification trends may cause them.

MURPHY, T. F. 2019. Adolescents and body modification for gender identity expression. Medical Law Review, 27, 623-639.

ROLLE, V. & GALLIOT, S. 2022. Body Modification. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology.

TIGGEMANN, M. 2022. Digital modification and body image on social media: Disclaimer labels, captions, hashtags, and comments. Body Image, 41, 172-180.

[drjacquescoulardeau]

Homo Naledi Meets Silvia Ferrara

Homo Naledi at IFIASA 2023, Romania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_Vmm78v_M, 43 minutes 24

A full presentation of Homo Naledi and what he means for archaeology and anthropology. He buried his dead in underground caves. He inscribed symbolic hashtags and other geometric forms on the walls of the main burial chamber over the graves. He had reached the first stage of symbolic writing, the engravings representing a few ritualistic oral formulas. Just one step before symbolical signs for phonemes and/or syllables, the opening gate to alphabetical writing.

The development of Writing at IFIASA 2023, Romania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Ak77DFPoo, 51 minutes 29

A full presentation of what happened after the lecture on Homo Naledi, moving from symbolical non-representational mostly geometric inscriptions and engravings to symbolical signs for phonemes and syllables that lead to alphabetical writing, a generally progressive evolution with cases like Egyptian hieroglyphs and Maya glyphs that kept their old Holistic representational structures and yet became phonetic for syllables or ancillary "words." What is writing the extension of, in Marshall McLuhan's line?

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

These two videos basically discuss provocative questions, which leaves established people in this field of research very hostile because it requires a complete restructuring of the timeline of human language, the phylogeny of this human language, and the communication it enables.

Homo Naledi Meets Silvia Ferrara

Jacques Coulardeau

2023 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

5 pages

[t--amodernicarus]

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Click "Read More" (May not be complete due to Tumblr's restraints. Completed bibliography turned in separately).

This article, written by a collection of researchers, focuses on the culture surrounding Tumblr that promotes self-harm. The article deeply discusses how social media can push people to self-harm by creating a culture that is not sympathetic to the illness but one that actually promotes the illness. The article claims that there is a large community of self-harmers that are connected through discourse on Tumblr, relating to each other through the way their acts are vilified and infamous within the grander community of Tumblr. The article also claims that Tumblr’s regulation of certain hashtags (such as #ed or #selfharm) continues to promote this culture. By “silencing” this community, it only encourages them to look for alternative ways to post, making the community even tighter. This is because only those with an “in” to the community can even find it. 

This article is an anthropological article that has been peer-reviewed and has its methodology listed plainly. Furthermore, the article does not list names or usernames when discussing the events taking place. This article is useful as it helps to give context and reasoning as to why the communities on Tumblr are so tight-knit and have been able to resist multiple bannings and censoring of keywords. The authors provide a wide and detailed study that is a great resource for my project.

Fyfe, Melissa. “Rise and Fall of Jess Miller's Pizza Empire.” The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 May 2016, https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/rise-and-fall-of-jess-millers-pizza-empire-20160512-gotftv.html. 

Griffith, Frances J., and Catherine H. Stein. “Behind the Hashtag: Online Disclosure of Mental Illness and Community Response on Tumblr.” American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 67, no. 3/4, June 2021, pp. 419–32. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12483.

This article examines personal accounts of mental illness through hashtags like #depression or #mental illness. The article explores the tendencies of Tumblr users to post about their illnesses and about how these postings can create subcultures and communities that revolve around propagating mental illness, not combatting it. The article talks about how the rates of Tumblr users who post about mental illness (by “post,” the author means more of a romanticization of illness, not awareness) increase when paired with a community that encourages that type of behavior. This way, the author shows how subcultures arise because of Tumblr and why they become so popular. This article can also show the detriment of these subcultures and how users can get sucked into difficult behaviors to maintain a community.

This is a peer-reviewed scholarly article written through the lens of psychology to observe the effects of these subcultures. It uses personal experiences, accounts, and public blog posts of 14,626 Tumblr users disclosing ten different mental health diagnoses using hashtags. This article is useful to me because, like the NSFW subculture, the mentally ill subculture is another window into how Tumblr propagates specific and unique cultures and the effects these subcultures have on the site's culture as a whole.

Nipples, Memes, and Algorithmic Failure: NSFW Critique of Tumblr ... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444820979280. 

This article discusses the banning of adult content on Tumblr, mostly in regard to the destruction of valuable subcultures on Tumblr, but also about the ways that Tumblr users resisted this ban. The article claims that Tumblr’s automatic filter does more harm than good, as it not only deleted adult content but unrelated pictures, like those of fully clothed people. The claim that Tumblr was banning “female-presenting nipples” also sparked many controversies, and the article talks heavily about the backlash Tumblr faced from its users because of this banning. The article also talks about the “memes” that came from these bans and how, even with the destruction of so many subcultures, more subcultures came to take their place.

This is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal in which methodology and research are clearly defined and available for the reader. The article uses “7306 posts made between November 2018 (when Tumblr announced its new content policy) and August 2019 (when Verizon sold Tumblr to Automattic),” to base its findings around and provides a myriad of video and photo sources. This source is valuable to me because it discusses not only culture and community on Tumblr but also the failure of the Tumblr algorithm and how resilient these cultures can be.

“The Downward Spiral of a Tumblr User Ligaturemarkings.” YouTube, YouTube, 9 Oct. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLarLdHA-NE

“The Evolution of the Tumblr Girl.” YouTube, YouTube, 28 Mar. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1TF7pcYePw. 

“The Fatphobia of Early 2010s Tumblr.” YouTube, YouTube, 7 Mar. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKhmwRwHjtU

This video goes in-depth about the fatphobia and shaming that was heavily incorporated into the culture of early 2010’s Tumblr. This video talks about cultural moments in history that shape the culture of Tumblr, such as the formation of boybands and the 2008 recession. The creator, Jessica Blair, also mentions that beauty gurus were immensely popular during this time and uses personal anecdotes and experiences to convey her message. She speaks about certain aesthetics that were popular at the time and how these aesthetics might affirm the biased ideas against fat people at the time. She claims that in the early 2010s Tumblr, thinness was everything and that almost every trend or clothing aesthetic that circulated at the time excluded fat people and promoted almost unhealthy thinness. Blair also talks about eating disorders on Tumblr, the normalization and glamorization of anorexia, and how brands like Brandy Melville helped to romanticize being thin. Blair also talks briefly about the domination of whiteness in this era and how fatphobia is linked to racism, specifically toward black women.

This source is a well-documented video in which the author uses scholarly articles and personal accounts to prove her claims. Blair uses direct photos and quotes from Tumblr accounts that were popular during the early 2010s and references many possible outside influences that affected the culture of thinness at the time. This video is useful to me because it is a highly detailed account of not just a certain time in Tumblr’s history but also of a specific detrimental culture being promoted. Blair also gives many examples of pivotal cultural aspects of the time outside of Tumblr, which can help me understand how certain times and actions change how culture manifests on Tumblr.

“The Story of the 20,000 Dollar Furry Commission.” YouTube, YouTube, 18 Jan. 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTHgEV-xUSg. 

“The Tumblr Era Is Back...and We Should Be Worried.” YouTube, YouTube, 27 Sept. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fz30qZ35UY. 

“The Tumblr Exodus.” YouTube, YouTube, 8 June 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyekDJU2iOY. 

Tiidenberg, Katrin. "Boundaries and Conflict in a NSFW Community on Tumblr: The Meanings and Uses of Selfies." New Media & Society, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814567984 Accessed 19 Apr. 2023.

This article also talks about banning adult content on Tumblr and the culture surrounding selfies or “self-shooting,” as the author calls it. The main goal of this article is to explore how selfies affirm, destroy, change, or conceptualize community and culture, specifically through the lens of “NSFW” (not safe for work, a phrase that refers to pornographic or gory material) photos. The article also talks about how the banning of NSFW content from Tumblr affected the subculture of “self-shot” pornography and what this ban meant in the grand scheme of the overall Tumblr community. It goes in-depth on a very specific community and culture, defining the good and bad parts while maintaining a sense of neutralism. 

This is a peer-reviewed article published in a scholarly journal, and like the others, it serves as an ethnographic, anthropological study. The study uses various “not safe for work” examples from personal blogs with original content or blogs that recirculate content and provides a detailed section describing their methodology. This source is useful for me because it provides another and objectively unique look into the ban on adult content and provides a specific and centralized community and culture that was effective. It also defines a huge cultural moment in Tumblr’s history that had a lot of affects on Tumblr as a whole.

“‘Tumblr Is Dominated by America:" A Study of Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Tumblr Transnational Fandom.” Taylor & Francis, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714421.2022.2126589

This article focuses on the dominance of American culture on Tumblr, specifically through the lens of linguistics and how non-Americans are affected by this Western domination. This article analyzes non-American fans’ engagement with Tumblr and explores the motivations of non-English speakers and non-Americans to join Tumblr. The article builds on the idea that websites are extremely large cultural spaces and explores the differences between communities produced by English-speaking American users and transnational users. The article discusses the idea of “transcultures,” what blended cultures look like, and how social media sites propagate and encourage blending even the most distinct cultures.

This is a peer-reviewed article with the methodology clearly and boldly listed, and the author is participating in ethnographic research in the field of anthropology. The study uses interviews with 19 Tumblr users, both transnational and American fans, to accurately study these blended cultures. This article is useful because it allows me to garner proven examples of how Tumblr affects and morphs cultures and communities. This also shows that Tumblr is a site that is not just significant in Western cultures (ie. America) but also in many parts of the world. I talk a lot about the blending of subcultures within Tumblr, and this article really helped me understand how cultures become blended and what the overall effects of these blended cultures are.

TumblrMart – Help Center. https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/7467765335575-TumblrMart. 

“Tumblr.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Apr. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr. 

“Why Tumblr Died so Quickly.” YouTube, YouTube, 4 Sept. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUriEoFfUc. “Tumblr.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Apr. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr. “Why Was Tumblr so Queer ?” YouTube, YouTube, 21 Nov. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvlLrd-BKW0.

[katzemda20009]

WEEK 4: DIGITAL COMMUNITY & FANDOM: REALITY TV CASE STUDY

What is Digital Publics & Public Sphere?

Digital publics are communities of people that connect online to debate and participate in public problems. The term "public sphere" describes the area where people congregate to engage in public speech and discussion about topics of interest to all. A new type of public sphere made possible by digital technology is known as the "digital public sphere," which enables anyone to participate in public discourse and influence public opinion via online forums.

Examples of digital publics:

Facebook groups for fans of a certain TV programme or Twitter debates on politics are two examples of social media communities that focus on certain subjects or interests.

Blogging communities allow bloggers to interact with readers through comments and feedback while also sharing their views and ideas on a variety of topics.

What is Focus Reility Show?

Due to its popularity and cultural influence, a focus on reality TV is frequently of interest.

Reality TV is a kind of television programming that uses actual people rather than professional actors and unscripted circumstances.

Reality TV has also drawn criticism and controversy because of its tendency to reinforce harmful stereotypes and encourage harmful conduct.

Personal opinion: I have reason to assume that the majority of reality programmes are prepared with simple scripts based on my experience viewing Relity Show in several countries, including the US, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. On the positive side, planning a scenario in advance guarantees that you reduce the likelihood of undesirable circumstances. Nevertheless, by doing this, the reality programme has unintentionally lost its originality and authenticity.

Image 1: Posters of reality TV shows from Korea, USA, Vietnam, China and Thailand.

Some of the purposes of reality TV shows

The reality show aims to exploit all aspects of the participants' lives.

Support for artists, idols, actors and celebrities to strengthen their recognition and popularity.

Support propaganda and promotion of local tourism.

Reality TV creates Digital Publics

Reality television fosters digital publics by providing a shared experience and a common topic for people to debate and interact with online.

Several reality television series feature online communities and social media groups where viewers may contribute their ideas, opinions, and responses to the show.

Consequently, reality television acts as a stimulant for the establishment of digital publics by providing a shared area for individuals to gather and debate similar interests.

Image 2: Examples of hashtags and comments from reality show viewers.

The social networking platforms used to promote reality TV programmes will change depending on the culture and unique qualities of each nation.

The common thread is that reality programmes will generate hashtags, titles, and events that viewers can readily debate with others who share their interests.

References:

  Fader, A & Gottlieb, O 2015, ‘Occupy Judaism: Religion, Digital Media, and the Public Sphere’, Anthropological quarterly, vol. 88, no. 3, George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research, Washington, pp. 759–793.

  Mattila, H & Nummi, P 2022, ‘The Challenge of the Digital Public Sphere: Finnish Experiences of the Role of Social Media in Participatory Planning’, Planning theory & practice, vol. 23, no. 3, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 406–422.

[victoriagleasuredesigns]

“What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?” Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars Today’s @owlcrate @OCthenest @words.and.whimsy Abducted by Love Photo Challenge is: For those who love, time is an eternity. Elana is a first-year student at the Interstellar Anthropology Service, sent to help a pre-space planet invaded by the Empire. Concealing her identity, she seeks the help of the woodcutter Georyn to save his people. Her love for him reaches beyond the stars. ✨💙✨ The Enchantress From the Stars book is pictured on the Alaska Aurora Borealis Christmas Tree Lap Quilt! ✨💜✨ You can find all the lovely space themed quilts pictured in our photos at our Etsy shop VictoriaGDesigns or www.victoriagleasuredesigns.com Hashtags: #owlcrate #OCthenest #words&whimsy #wordsandwhimsy #abductedbylove #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations #scifi #scifibooks #enchantressfromthestars #sylviaengdahl #stars #bookstagram #booksandquilts #fabricinspiration #starquilt #victoriagdesigns #victoriagleasuredesigns #etsy #smallbusiness #longarmquilter #youngadultfantasy #youngadultbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5U_ULggXl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[translaytonblr]

cannot stop thinking about miracle mask. cannot stop thinking about how beautiful of a game its trying to be while being held back by bad writing choices and even worse 3d mocap cutscenes. cant stop thinking about randall and hershel's relationship. cannot stop thinking about how randall was resurrected wrong and how layton was forced to confront the man he (thinks) he killed. cant stop thinking about henry and angela's unhealthy, festering hope that they held onto for almost 20 years. and, lastly of all, i cannot stop thinking about how level-5 bungled it all in the end

[workingforitallthetime]

That is Brendan’s cousin, her sister has a picture of him and Jordan with the # family

i like to use asks like this as an opportunity to explain reliable sourcing. the first reliability problem here is that there is no link included, so i have no way to check the veracity of this supposed picture.

checking that source could have enabled me to examine the reliability of the other two assumptions here, both of which are not as absolute as anon seems to think they are. first, there is an unsourced assumption that the individual who posted this picture is the sister of the person in question. second, there is an assumption that the use of the hashtag "family" confirms the existence of a consanguineous relationship, and indeed the specific nature of that relationship (cousins), when that is definitely not how the #family hashtag is always used, including and especially in the hockey world, where you frequently see it applied to teams, bros, and other fictive kinships (for example, ellen hughes's use of the #family tag on tweets regarding brendan when we know there is no consanguineous or affinal relationship between them.)

[whattolearntoday]

A bit of August 23rd history...

79 - Mt Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii)

1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England (pictured)

1793 - The French National Convention adopts the levee en masse, conscripting all able bodied men between 18 & 25 for military service during the French Revolution

1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf

2007 - Hashtag invented and 1st used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina

2013 - UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre

2017 - World’s driest place, the Atacama Desert in Chile, blooms after an unexpected rainfall 

[d0llpartzz]

[thesunw1tch]

Witchy Intro!

I am The Sun Witch, but please, call me Goldie! I have been practicing witchcraft on and off again for about 6 years, and consider myself an intermediate witch. I am a university student studying Anthropology and am currently 21 years old. I suffer from some sort of undiagnosed anxiety, but that's a story for another day. Another important part of me is my identity as a queer person, if you can't already tell. I prefer not to use labels on my sexuality and romantic interests but for simplicity, I'll say that I am a panromantic asexual non-binary person. Oh, and I'm a Gemini Sun, Cancer Moon, and Scorpio Rising.

Now down to business!

My practice mostly consists of:

tarot/ various divination techniques

diety worship (I've worked with Apollo for a while and newly worshipping Hekate)

workings with the sun and wind

energy workings (meditation, connecting to the earth/elements, astral projection, charging tools with my own energy, etc)

I dabble in a lot of different kinds of witchcraft besides that however, such: art/green/hedge/water/etc. I'm very open in terms of witchcraft and have tried just about everything I can in the time I've been practicing. In fact, I've honed in on my clairaudience ability (though, it has freaked me out on multiple occassions).

I am not the most knowledgable in witchcraft, but I am more than willing to share what I know to anyone willing to listen. You are free to ask me any questions you may have, I'll answer in the best way that I can!

All of my spells, potions, etc can be found under the hashtag "Goldies guide to witchcraft" !

[donnerpartyofone]

I've been trying to expand my horizons lately with some *activities* (shudder), and it's providing me with some pretty serious exercise, if not of the intellectual ilk, then just in terms of, like, managing my own pettiness. I am SO easily distracted by people's awful personalities that I almost lose sight of what I'm trying to do in the first place, and then before I know it I'm spending all my energy hating strangers instead of finding the benefits of a situation. Like I'm reading this fascinating, speculative anthropology text that traces the origins of modern show business to ancient shamanic traditions, and in the study group--largely composed of white Americans, many of whom are stage magicians or something--an alarming number of people seemed eager to proclaim that they "didn't get" a chapter involving the spectacle of Hell in modern entertainment, specifically because they're not Christian. Which is absolutely maddening, since no one complained about "not getting" the first 100 pages detailing the spiritual practices of long-extinct nomadic tribesmen in places like Siberia. These douchebags are just way to anxious to make sure everybody knows they don't read the Bible, just in case Penn Jillette might appear in a puff of smoke to shame them for not being atheistic enough.

Then on another night of the week, I'm in this Frankenstein discussion group--I've never read it before and I'm astonished by how drenched in shame and grief it is! Film adaptations usually describe Victor Frankenstein as a two-dimensional egomaniac who won't acknowledge his own hubris until his just desserts arrive, but the book (at least the first half or so) is hugely about feelings of guilt and disgrace and self-loathing. Then of course the group I'm in dogpiles on diagnosing Victor as a "white patriarchal sociopath", which like...I don't know if that really makes a point, as much as it expresses the joy people get out of saying hashtags out loud and misappropriating psychiatry terms. Like I'm not saying none of those things are construably true about Victor, but I don't think it's accurate to call someone a "sociopath" because:

A) they're shocked out of their minds by the gruesome reality, versus the idealized fantasy, of creating a zombie;

B) their actions have wildly unforeseeable consequences; or,

C) when wildly unforeseeable consequences arrive, they suffer a nervous collapse, and fail to do "the right thing", whatever that is in the outrageous world of one of the world's main horror novels.

Somebody dialed it back from "sociopath" to "narcissist", which was definitely more useful, even though it still smacked of the habit of pillaging the DSM just to be insulting, or to cover up your own inability to accurately observe and describe things organically. But uh anyway, once the words "white" and "patriarchal" slipped out, it seemed like everybody went insane with this urge to project all kinds of very modern intentions onto Mary Shelley and elevate her to the level of a Betty Friedan waging war against the folly of a male-dominated society.

And again it's like, while there are definitely socially critical strains in Shelley's writing (which was significantly a collaboration with her husband btw), I don't think the pat answer to "Why aren't there any substantial female characters in Frankenstein" has to be "because Shelley is smashing the patriarchy." Given the time frame, if she wanted Victor or Robert Walton or whoever to be female, she'd have to set up this whole thing about how each character was a genius and an iconoclast who defied contemporary sexist sanctions by launching herself, against all odds, as a globe-trotting explorer leading a crew of macho sailors to the edges of the world, or a career academic blasting through the limits of human knowledge despite the prejudices of her peers, professors, and public. The unfortunate reality is that sometimes when you want to make a strong point, you can't bring on all of your favorite thoughts and feelings at the same time, or else you wind up having to make all these justifications and explanations and contextualizations, and then before you know it, you're saying something else entirely. (People seemed sort of pissed off when I suggested this, but whatever, GOOD.)

Frankenstein was written in an era where science itself was a source of both wonder and terror, and it was ALSO importantly an era in which parenthood was fraught with potential horrors; Shelley wrote the novel in between the premature deaths of her first two children, and the notion of parenthood bringing tragic and perpetually haunting consequences is pretty much slathered all over the entire book, even in the lives of side characters. And the vanity of technology, and parenthood, are only two of the readily available lenses on the story; the book group itself was advertised as being angled toward Frankenstein's commentary on the prejudicial way in which human rights are assigned or withheld vis a vis race specifically. So like it's not really necessary to put your favorite words in Mary Shelley's mouth, so staunchly and exclusively, just because they're the words that get you the most likes on Twitter or whatever.

What I'm trying to say is not that people shouldn't do these kinds of thought experiments; I just mean like, I can TELL when someone is opportunistically using something as neutral as a classroom setting to try to get their personality validated the same way they do on social media, by being needlessly emotional or proscriptive or through basic sloganeering, and it's REALLY tiresome.

[andrioddenied-blog]

Bby I don't need nobody else boo xoxoxo #anthropology #bones #hashtag #smc2019 #proudtobesmc #bae (at Santa Monica College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2k0OGxgwTI/?igshid=vbafginyadn1

[sashalogie]

I put up some posters and postcards from storage and tricked my brain into thinking I did something productive.

Yall are so beautiful i’ve been scrolling through the gradblr hashtag (which i didn’t know existed despite lurking on studyblr for years) and was inspired into making this now that i’m in grad school!

Hi hello – i’m sasha and i study (surprise) sociology. I studied social anthropology in undergrad and have been working in the development sector since I finished two years ago. How is 2019 two years ago??

I’m excited for the upcoming semester and can’t wait to share more socio-related content here. Recognize that quote on the poster?? let’s be friends pls!!