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forthoseinterested · 21 days ago

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The default politician is a normal white guy

Close your eyes and think ‘politician’. I bet you think of a white guy—probably in his 40s or 50s, and with a simple first name, something like John, Rob, Steve, or Chris. It can be less common, but nothing that people will mispronounce, or worse yet be corrected about the pronunciation of. And he just looks normal. Clean-cut, short hair, suit and tie. They make these guys in a lab.

I’m not saying this is how it should be in an ideal world. That’s just how it is. The further you stray from the default template, the more you have to justify yourself, the more you have to compensate. It’s not impossible to get elected as something else, but if there’s nothing remarkable about you, people are just going to lean toward just electing the normal white guy instead. The electorate has a huge normal-white-guy bias. In mainstream, national politics that is.

For example, if you’re a gay dude, then you better be the best goddamn gay around. A model gay. The kind of person we can’t tell is gay at first, and doesn’t weird anyone out. In the US right now, the go-to example of that has become Pete Buttigieg. He even has a simple-enough first name. Pete. His surname is a little stupid, and people can’t figure out how to pronounce it just by looking. It’s like, boot-a-jedge? It’s a good strategy that he emphasizes his first name with that ‘Mayor Pete’ nickname. But is this guy exceptionally great? No. He’s kind of just a normal guy, but worse, because he’s gay. It’s a downgrade.

If you’re black, you have a very high bar to get over. You have to be very wholesome and family-oriented. Nothing scary. No rap music or Islam. Be a Christian. Don’t cheat on your wife, or have children with multiple women. The day a black dude tries to run for president with kids from multiple women, the media will call them ‘baby mommas’ at every opportunity, everybody will pretend they’re not being racist, and suddenly the public will remember they care about family values again.

It’s also better if your wife is a black woman. Americans are more comfortable with black people when they’re in same-race relationships, because that prevents any kind of weirdness. I think black voters like it better too, actually. If you wanted to sell an interracial couple to the American public, it should probably be a white man with a woman who’s not East Asian. A black or Middle Eastern woman would probably do.

Barack Obama walked the line. He was highly educated, a great speaker, he had experience in state and federal politics, he had a good home life with a normal marriage to a black woman, two kids and a dog. His worst quality was probably his name, which people did try to use against him, but at least it wasn’t something hard to pronounce. His middle name just sounded sort of like that terrorist guy, which wasn’t enough. And his first name, Barack, is uncommon, but also relatively simple, and it actually has a good ring to it. Barack Obama. It rolls of the tongue well.

To be a woman is also a difficult balancing act. We’ve seen successful female politicians in other countries. To make it big-time, they have to be tough enough to be taken seriously, but communicate in a soft enough way they don’t get called a shrill bitch, and they can’t be too sexy or emotional. They have to be a ruthless grandmother of the nation. Angela Merkel (Germany), Margaret Thatcher (UK), and Indira Gandhi (India) are some good examples of this.

If she’s too attractive, that actually works against her, because men won’t take a woman seriously as an authority figure if they also want to bang her. They’ll just say she’s hot and they want to sleep with her, but this is intended as a way of being belittling or demeaning. We’ve seen this over and over again with politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example. If you ask people what they think of her, people answer by talking about her appearance, instead of their thoughts about her as a serious politician, and the signal is they don’t think of her as a serious politician.

There are sometimes young women who end up as heads of government in other countries, but usually ones that are especially forward-thinking compared with America, and who have a governmental system where the leader is less emphasized in elections. Jacinda Ardern, the PM of New Zealand, for example, was not directly voted in, and I doubt a woman like her could’ve been successful in American politics, at least without totally changing her approach.

Hillary Clinton was a highly competent woman who’d proved herself many times over and captured that ‘tough grandmother’ energy reasonably well. There are few women in America who had as much potential to become the first female president. It took a lot of effort and resources to keep her down, especially in lies and conspiracy theories in the right-wing media circus that focused on her, and managed to trick enough people into thinking she did something wrong in Benghazi, and then had an email server, and maybe was orchestrating a pedophile sex-cult out of a pizzeria? Despite all that, she got more votes than her opponent and almost got elected, because in most ways she did fit the role well.

Kamala Harris

Now let’s talk about Harris. She’s part-Indian, part-African American, part white, so she’s only like a quarter black or something. Does that matter? No, obviously it shouldn’t—but people talked about it during election season. It was a topic of conversation. That’s a downside of being non-white, sadly. This topic doesn’t do anything productive, and of course nobody wastes any time talking about a white guy’s race. Does anyone care what country Tim Walz’s parents came from? Is he Irish? Is one of his parents from Denmark? I don’t know, or care, and I doubt anyone else does either.

But what people really dislike is ambiguity. If you’re black, then you need to clearly be black and lean into being black and make that part of your story. If you’re Indian, then likewise. There are, in fact, people who didn’t realize Harris was black until the 2024 race. And even after this became a conversation, Harris just tried to avoid the topic entirely. She was asked about it in an interview, and she just called talking about her race a tired talking point, and asked to move to the next question. In my view, this shows her poor understanding of the American electorate. She needed to tell her story. Tell us where your parents came from, talk about your past.

For many people, the lack of clear backstory, and the appearance of a changing backstory, contributed to the perception that she was inauthentic. There were people who criticized her for claiming to be black despite only being a quarter black and not having “the black experience” (there were black people who believed and argued this).

I saw many Harris supporters make the mistake of insisting on the pronunciation of her name, making that into a bigger deal than it ever should’ve been. “It’s not kuh-malla, it’s comma-luh”. Terrible. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot. If I could’ve given everybody advice: just say Harris. It’s the better part of her name, and there’s no reason not to use it. If I were on her staff, any time I could just be saying ‘Harris’ instead, I’d do that and just skip the Kamala part; and then when people do say Kamala, let them pronounce it however they want. Who cares?

What did Harris have to compensate for these disadvantages?

Unfortunately, Harris does not at all have tough grandma vibes. Is she too young? Maybe it’s about how she talks. People don’t like how she sounds, or how she laughs. Either way, she doesn’t have the right vibe. She feels more like a classmate at college than a wise no-nonsense grandma.

What’s her experience like? Senator from California, then Vice President. That’s reasonable, you say. But right now, California has a bad reputation nationally. Not a bad reputation it deserves, but one that it got because people see news reports about how there are homeless people shitting on the streets in San Francisco. Line-ups of homeless tents! And oh, the crime! We’ve all seen those videos on the internet of people looting stores and nobody stopping them, right?

There was a referendum (prop 47 in 2024) to reclassify petty theft at some point and the people of the state voted in favour of it, which didn’t work out, which is why now they’ve passed another referendum (prop 36 in 2024) reversing some of that change. So despite California being the wealthiest state with a really high quality of living where people all across the country would be happy to move to if they could afford it, a lot of people across America hear ‘government of California’ and think bad thoughts. (This will be a hurdle for Gavin Newsom if he tries to break into national politics—they’ll just talk about California’s problems constantly, and the narrative will be California bad, therefore Newsom bad.)

Before being a Senator, Harris was an Attorney General. What does that even mean? She was in charge of laws being enforced in California? That’s bad, because in California they have bad laws and people do bad things and they get away with it because California is bad. So that’s all just bad.

Then she was the Vice President for 4 years. That must be valuable experience, right? Unfortunately, the way a lot of people reason is “if my life is going well, I support the current leadership, and if my life feels like it’s going poorly, then I don’t support the current leadership”. Is it their fault? Were there things they could’ve done but didn’t? It doesn’t matter. The reasoning doesn’t run that deep. Lots of Americans thought the economy felt bad, so they don’t like the current leadership, and Harris is the current leadership, therefore she’s bad and that political experience amounts to nothing, or less than nothing. They would’ve preferred Harris in an alternate timeline where she was never VP to the Harris in our timeline where she was. It tainted her.

Is the economy actually doing worse? I don’t even know. There’s indicators to suggest it’s not, but people will say they feel the economy is doing bad no matter what the numbers say. It’s actually largely psychological, not mathematical. There are various biases and ideas that go into how well people think the economy is doing, and part of it is messaging. If every day you turn on TV and the people on air tell you “the economy is bad”, then you’re just going to end up feeling like the economy is bad, regardless of your personal experiences with it. A similar thing happens with crime rates.

There was that whole “border czar” lie that Harris’s campaign didn’t do enough to contradict. And the border is another feels-based topic, where virtually nobody has any idea what the border is like—most people in the country are nowhere near it and don’t interact with it, so what do they know? Whatever the press shows them, is the answer. But somehow, everybody ended up feeling like the border is a big problem right now—and if things are bad, then your current leaders must be to blame. And there was an article a few years ago where some journalist called Harris the border czar, which must mean the border is her fault, maybe? It’s brilliant, in an evil sort of way.

(Harris was tasked with diplomatic missions related to immigration, which were arguably successful. It was never her job to directly do anything about the border. That whole narrative was just made up by the right-wing media.)

So experience and personality weren’t in her favour. What was?

Nothing, really. Everything I know about her cast her in a negative light in the public’s eye. And that doesn’t mean she would’ve been a bad executive. She probably would’ve been the best president the US has had in some time. But she’s a woman, she’s black or something, she talks weird, she has a weird name that people mispronounce. That’s a lot to compensate for. For somebody like her to get in, she’d have needed to be exceptionally great, and she wasn’t.

Joe Biden

Now look at Joe Biden. He was a great candidate, both on paper and in practice—well, before he became President, at least.

First of all, he’s a normal white guy with a simple name. He fits the model. There’s nothing to compensate for. His name is Joe. It’s literally the name that we use to mean a simple everyday guy. He’s just an ordinary Joe. Joe Sixpack. Joe Shmoe.

Then you look at him, and yeah, there’s really nothing weird about him at all. He’s perfectly fucking normal. He’s from a working class area, then he worked in government for a long time, and everybody who’s worked with or around him speaks positively of him, including his opponents. People liked him as VP. He’s seriously great. The fact he’s had such a difficult time speaking in the last few years is pretty much his only downside.

In every respect other than being younger, the move from Joe to Kamala was one of the worst downgrades of all time.

That’s what I thought, anyway. At the time, many people seemed to be happy with the change-up, but only because they were happy to feel they had ‘solved’ the Joe Biden problem.

That’s why Tim Walz was important. He distracted everybody from Harris. Tim was like the new Joe: a normal, friendly, white guy with a simple name. Tim. He’s Tim. He was a high school football coach, for cryin’ out loud. And he had political experience. The vibes were immaculate. He’s all the things Harris lacked, but which people were too uncomfortable to acknowledge Harris lacked, because people don’t usually speak as frankly as I’m doing here.

A similar tale: the NDP

In Canada, the two big parties are the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. In the 1960s, a third party called the New Democratic Party (NDP) was founded. Under the leadership of Jack Layton, a normal white guy with a simple name, it actually grew a lot in the early 2000s, culminating in the 2011 general election, where they took seats from the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois, another smaller party. It was their best performance ever, and the Liberal Party’s worst performance ever, and the NDP went from 4th to the 2nd largest party in the country, after the Conservatives. Layton was seated as the Official Opposition. This was a huge moment for them, and for Canadian politics in general.

Jack Layton had some of the same energy and appeal as Bernie Sanders, in that he was an old white guy who came off as principled, authentic, and caring. But he was also an effective politician, genuinely trying to expand and grow the party. He was normal, he was a good speaker, he went on the streets and talked with people. He didn’t do anything stupid or controversial. Even relatively apolitical people in my life knew about him and had a good impression of him.

Then tragically, he died. The year before the election, in 2010, he had cancer, but he seemed to recover. He became the Opposition Leader in May 2011. In July, he announced that he had another, different type of cancer, and then in August he was pronounced dead. We never found out what type of cancer it was, and it doesn’t matter. As far as politicians go, this man was beloved. Everybody mourned.

Fast-forward to today, and the NPD is back to being 4th largest in the House of Commons. In the 2015 general, the Liberal Party came back stronger than ever under Justin Trudeau’s leadership. They went from 36 seats to a majority with 184 seats. The NPD lost more than half of theirs. And while they tried for a round with Tom Mulcair in between, for the last 7 years now the NPD party leader has been a man named Jagmeet Singh. In my view, this is the reason they no longer stand a chance. The downgrade from Jack Layton to Singh is enormous.

If you just read his name in your head for the first time, you probably mispronounced it. It’s not ‘jag-meet’, it’s ‘jug-meet’. Take some meat, put it in a jug, and then it sings to us. Jug meat sing. That’s his name. It’s a terrible name, almost comically terrible. He’s also a Sikh, which is some foreign religion that most of us know nothing about. He gets on stage with a big beard and turban. I’m sorry, but what do you expect running a leader like this?

Part of the reason a white guy with a simple name is the default in politics is that people want their leaders to represent them, not only in policy but in who they are. I’d say our current and previous PMs, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper, both achieved that. If you put them on stage internationally, I’d say they’re both fine reflections of what Canada is as a nation. Sing is not.

Singh isn’t an immigrant. He was born in Ontario. That means he speaks normally, at least. If he were serious about becoming a leader in national politics, he should ditch Sikhism, get a normal haircut, and either convert to Christianity or just say he’s not religious and avoid the topic. He could’ve been successful as a normal Canadian guy, except that his skin is a bit darker because he came from an immigrant background. That can work. In his current state, though? It doesn’t look like he even wants to represent Canada. It doesn’t look like he’s serious about ever actually winning. That or he’s hopelessly naïve about how politics works, and he thinks if he says the right things he’ll somehow overcome all of his own electoral disadvantages. He won’t. I actually doubt he’d win even if he took all of my advice, because there’s probably nothing particularly great about him. If you want to win and you’re not a normal white guy, you need to be a cut above, you need to stand out and be better than average, and I’m sorry, but Singh probably isn’t.

In the United States, I’m skeptical of third parties because I think they’ve ended up having motives other than trying to actually win office. They know they can’t, but run anyway for the impact their run has on the election, trying to spoil the race by ‘taking’ votes from the candidate most similar to you, or just using the platform you get by running for office to expand on your own brand and personality in other ways. It becomes a weird grift, a performance art.

Is that what happened to Singh and the NPD internally? Did they give up on ever actually winning federally and just decide they may as well embrace being the progressive-minded left-leaning minority party that gets to make statements to the press, but never has to actually govern? That’s why they would tolerate being led by Singh, who scores many progressive ‘points’ (look at us, we’re so forward-thinking that we chose a Sikh with a beard and turban as our leader!) and will never win anything.

I don’t know. I’m not privy to internal NPD party politics. It’s just a thought.

By the way, the best politician ever was John Tory, the former mayor of Toronto. That guy is like if space aliens were trying to disguise theirselves as a politician. He's the most normal-looking person ever, and his name is literally John Tory. John Tory! What a name!

#politics #election #joe biden #kamala harris #donald trump #canada #analysis #npd #jack layton #jagmeet singh #realpolitik #some people might find this post depressing tbh #I'm too realistic

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alexversenaberrie · 3 months ago

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This is Hiba’s younger sister Eleni:

Name: Eleni Jade Bridger Wren

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Year of Birth: 16 ABY

Place of Birth: KnownWrest

Parents: Ezra Bridger (Father) and Sabine Wren (Mother)

Siblings: Hiba (Sister),Minerva (Sister), Kanan(Brother)

House: Kryze

Clan: Wren (Formally of House Viszla but switch affiliation with House Kryze by Countess Sabine Wren, Eleni’s mother, in 10 ABY.)

Titles: Princess of KnownWrest, Lady of KnownWrest, Lady-In Waiting to Princess Isabeth Djarin-Kryze, Knight of Mandalore, Resistance Sargent (During the Age of Resistance)

Appearance:

•5’2

•Light brown Skin (Middle Eastern X East Asian)

•Athletic

•Round face

•Has long natural black hair that she often dyes with a mixture of yellow and orange highlights.

•Blue Eyes

Notable Skills:

•Combat: is well trained in various hand-to-hand combat skills. She is also known to use various types of Westar blasters during various missions for her people, the New Republic, and the Resistance. She’s also skilled in some martial arts.

•Sword-Fighting: Aside from being able to wield lightsabers despite not being force sensitive like her brother and older sister, Eleni is considered to be an expert swordswoman who can wield various types of non-saber swords such as vibroswords, beskads, and Sith swords.

•Intelligence: Above-average intelligence. Excelled well at both the newly reestablished Royal Academy as a youth and in training with her clan.

•Expert Scholar and Historian: Eleni is both a scholar and a historian whose expertise is specialized in Mandalorian history and culture. She has worked with Dr.Arpha on ancient Mandalorian archeological sites to help study and expand knowledge on Mandalorian history with the intention to preserve them.

•Traditional Painter: As a highly skilled artist, Eleni specializes in traditional painting, putting her focus on hand-painting ceramics and statues while putting a focus on reviving the traditional Mandalorian cubism.

•Force Sensitive?: No

Additional Information:

•Although she’s fourth of Ezra and Sabine’s four children, she’s twin to her brother Kanan by four minutes.

•Her name honors General Hera Syndulla’s late mother Eleni Syndulla, Twi’lek martyr of the Rebel Alliance.

•Has a very tight-knit relationship with her entire family clan and the rest of the Ghost Crew.

•Her expertise in Mandalorian history and culture has allowed the Senate to pass laws to preserve ancient Mandalorian sites and return Mandalorian artifacts that were proven to have been stolen by the Empire. This also includes humanoid remains of fallen Mandalorians whose graves had been disturbed throughout the years.

•While helping the Djarin-Kryzes(Mandalore’s royal family) rebuild Mandalore and all of its cities and towns by providing historic maps and models on what they looked like before the Purge to serve as guides to rebuild and restore buildings and monuments that were damaged by the Empire.

•During her time with the Resistance as an officer, Eleni used her swordsman skills to fight off First Order Storm Troopers and sabotage missions that don’t end in them attacking planets they were planning to invade.

•Was trained by both her parents in various areas of combat, which includes the wielding of lightsabers.

Strengths:

•As a master swordswoman, Eleni is force to be reckoned with if one dares to fight her.

•Her knowledge of Mandalorian history is a great asset for understanding how to rebuilt cities, towns, and sacred sites across Mandalore and can be applied to the field of intergalactic archaeology.

•She tends to stay focus on whatever she plans to do without slacking off.

•Doesn’t ever let her personal feelings get in the way of doing a job.

•She’s very passionate and individualistic.

•Is willing to make sacrifices for others.

•Is a master problem solver.

Weaknesses:

•Can get sarcastic at times.

•Is known to get a little cocky.

•Due to knowing her stuff, Eleni is known to get a little arrogant at times, which can throw people off when working with her.

•Her naivety has been known to put Mandalorian and Resistance lives at risk during various missions across the Galaxy.

•She’s prone to become obsessive in some situations.

•Has a bad habit of getting herself buried in her own work.

Armor:

•Helmet: A typical Clan Wren-styled Nite Owl helmet that features her mother’s “signature” “Wren” jaig eyes like her older sisters’ but with Ahsoka’s “Fulcrum” symbol at it’s center.

•Chest and Neck Pieces: Similar design to what her mother’s was when she first inherited shortly after taking the Mandalorian creed and from during her time with the Rebellion. At its center is a star bird signet that represents both her family and the Ghost crew.

•Pauldrons: Similar to Koska Reeves’ but with House Kryze and New Republic signets on each side.

•Gauntlets: Typical Nite-Owl style in terms of design and functionality.

•Thigh Plates: Typical Nite-Owl style but similar to Koska Reeves’.

•Knee Armor: Similar to her mother’s.

•Shin Guards: Similar to her mother’s.

•Foot Armor: Similar to her Mother’s.

Armor Color Scheme:

•Cosmic

•Battleship Gray

•Dark Gold

•Yellow-Green

•Lacrosse

•Neon Gray

•St Tropaz

•Light Gold

•Green-Cyan

Soft Parts:

•Similar to her mother’s.

Belt:

•Similar to her late maternal grandmother’s but with a dull yellow sash around her waistline.

Weapons in Possession:

•1 Westar blaster

•1 vibrosword that was forged and modified to her own liking like having the hilt shaped like the original Clan Wren signet.

•1 beskad

•1 Sith Sword

This is Hiba’s younger sister Eleni:

Name: Eleni Jade Bridger Wren

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Year of Birth: 16 ABY

Place of Birth: KnownWrest

Parents: Ezra Bridger (Father) and Sabine Wren (Mother)

Siblings: Hiba (Sister),Minerva (Sister), Kanan(Brother)

House: Kryze

Clan: Wren (Formally of House Viszla but switch affiliation with House Kryze by Countess Sabine Wren, Eleni’s mother, in 10 ABY.)

Titles: Princess of KnownWrest, Lady of KnownWrest, Lady-In Waiting to Princess Isabeth Djarin-Kryze, Knight of Mandalore, Resistance Sargent (During the Age of Resistance)

Appearance:

•5’2

•Light brown Skin (Middle Eastern X East Asian)

•Athletic

•Round face

•Has long natural black hair that she often dyes with a mixture of yellow and orange highlights.

•Blue Eyes

Notable Skills:

•Intelligence: Above-average intelligence. Excelled well at both the newly reestablished Royal Academy as a youth and in training with her clan.

•Force Sensitive?: No

Additional Information:

•Although she’s fourth of Ezra and Sabine’s four children, she’s twin to her brother Kanan by four minutes.

•Her name honors General Hera Syndulla’s late mother Eleni Syndulla, Twi’lek martyr of the Rebel Alliance.

•Has a very tight-knit relationship with her entire family clan and the rest of the Ghost Crew.

•Was trained by both her parents in various areas of combat, which includes the wielding of lightsabers.

Strengths:

•As a master swordswoman, Eleni is force to be reckoned with if one dares to fight her.

•She tends to stay focus on whatever she plans to do without slacking off.

•Doesn’t ever let her personal feelings get in the way of doing a job.

•She’s very passionate and individualistic.

•Is willing to make sacrifices for others.

•Is a master problem solver.

Weaknesses:

•Can get sarcastic at times.

•Is known to get a little cocky.

•Due to knowing her stuff, Eleni is known to get a little arrogant at times, which can throw people off when working with her.

•Her naivety has been known to put Mandalorian and Resistance lives at risk during various missions across the Galaxy.

•She’s prone to become obsessive in some situations.

•Has a bad habit of getting herself buried in her own work.

Armor:

•Pauldrons: Similar to Koska Reeves’ but with House Kryze and New Republic signets on each side.

•Gauntlets: Typical Nite-Owl style in terms of design and functionality.

•Thigh Plates: Typical Nite-Owl style but similar to Koska Reeves’.

•Knee Armor: Similar to her mother’s.

•Shin Guards: Similar to her mother’s.

•Foot Armor: Similar to her Mother’s.

Armor Color Scheme:

•Cosmic

•Battleship Gray

•Dark Gold

•Yellow-Green

•Lacrosse

•Neon Gray

•St Tropaz

•Light Gold

•Green-Cyan

Soft Parts:

•Similar to her mother’s.

Belt:

•Similar to her late maternal grandmother’s but with a dull yellow sash around her waistline.

Weapons in Possession:

•1 Westar blaster

•1 vibrosword that was forged and modified to her own liking like having the hilt shaped like the original Clan Wren signet.

•1 beskad

•1 Sith Sword

You are welcome :)

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kmp78 · 1 year ago

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What do you think you know? Guys?🤣

Adelia:

"Roots" means she is mixed. Not Asian. She has Asian mixed genes but she is NOT Asian per se. And period. The same situation is with people mixed with white and black ethnicity. They are mulatto and they have mixed DNA. And our Adelia is mixed with white female and father who has been mixed too with Mongol, German and some European blood, there are article and note at the website. So she is not Asian, guys. She has Asian Genes in her DNA. Like we all did somehow in Europe especially east part of it. And therefore you can find there Slavic people with Asian eyes, and Asian face structure. Cause of the mixed genes by east immigrants. And our Adelia probably has the same story with father who was an immigrant in Germany somehow. Probably from Russia or another Eastern European country.

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Why the f are you sending me essays on some irrelevant rando-ass C-list model? 🙄

Get a fucking grip. 🤦🏼‍♀️

We all HAVE EYES. 🙄

#submission

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Week 1: SDL - Existing Creatives

Ayesha Green

Ayesha Green tells stories of family and apirations and history of her family. Her inspiration comes from inspirations of historical images that relate to how NZ’s identity formed. How NZ tells our stories and how that plays out in our understanding of who we are.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/nz-house-garden/300577995/meet-the-maker-visual-artist-ayesha-green

George Haijan

Through meticulous weaving of paper through wires and cutting and slicing the paper, Haijan makes the viewers question contemporary cultural beliefs. How are expectations and aesthetics changing, both in terms of how we look at ourselves and eachother ?

Haijan also uses a lot of pink throughout his work.

https://www.timmelville.com/exhibition/bent-blurred/

Toi Tu Toi Ora - Tyrone Ohia

This was a Maori Art exhibition that Tyrone Ohia designed for the space. He made sure that in his design and when designing the space of the gallery that this echoed throughout, like a river, a dynamic.

The most important thing he wanted was for us to be able to open our eyes for this to be conceived our minds and ears for this type of knowledge.

He wanted people to be immersed in the space but also that space to continue outside and that sound to be resonate everywhere people go.

Turama - Queen Street Lights

Several lights installments throughout CBD, but this is just one of the ones I found while walking.

These were executed by the creative team by Angus Muir Design, Graham Tipene. These installments bring light to Maori designs, and captures the eyes of peoploe walking through the city.

https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/turama

Te Toi o Mangahekea

By Graham Tipene, Ta Moko artist, draws on water for inspiratio, acknowledgiing how integral it is to life and many waters of Tamaki Makaurau NZ.

The six Takarangi or interlocking spiral designs “speak to the cyclical life of water - sky, lake, river, sea and to sky. This ssymbolizes male and female, Ranginui and Papatuanuku: the waitemata and the manukau, the 2 harbours surrounding the gallery then east and west then the coastal waters . These designs in unity represent interconnectedness of the environment

Choi Gi Seok

south korean photographer

known for surrealist photograhs

born in 1992

2016, founder of streetwear brand KUSIKOHC

intricate portraits featuring unusual details/forms

photographed for publications such as CR Fashion, KINFOLK, Vogue Korea, Wallpaper China, and Dazed Korea.

Each and every one of his photographs tells a distinctive story that plays with texture, color, and clothing

Almost all of his photographs are portraits in soft lighting, contrasted with bright pops of color that are typically incorporated as props, such as flowers, or face makeup

While Cho’s work embodies a new artistic perspective in regards to fashion, it also makes a direct statement and representation of Korean culture

Often, in the portraits, models are adorned with cultural artifacts that are distinctly Korean

https://curiosityshots.com/the-whimsical-photography-of-cho-gi-seok/

Ikko Tanaka

Ikko Tanaka is a Japanese graphics designer that uses simple geometric shapes as a basis to create communicative imagery. His posters usually make reference to traditional Japanese culture.

He also fuses Western and Eastern cultures in his work.

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ikko-tanaka

Saul Bass

Saul Bass is an American graphics designer born 1920-1996. He also uses simple geometric shapes that were often hand drawn to create a powerful message. He works on many movie sequences, posters and logos.

https://medium.com/art-science/saul-bass-on-his-approach-to-designing-movie-title-sequences-47fd537c457b

Sun Ho Lee

She is a Korean-American designer explores how activism can be shown through design.

Through her designs she highlights the experience of other’s and her experience as an Asian-immigrant living in a western country. She has several works of publications and ephemeras – knitted blanket/flag.

https://publications.risdmuseum.org/grad-show-2023-graphic-design/sun-ho-lee

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Golden Globes are back on TV, but are reform efforts enough?

NEW YORK

Without a TV show, starry red carpet, host, press or even a livestream, the Golden Globe Awards were in chaos last year after scandal broke over lack of diversity, accusations of sexism, and ethical and financial lapses among members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Once known as Hollywood’s biggest, booziest party that regularly drew 18 million television viewers, the doling out of statues was reduced to a 90-minute private event with no celebrities present at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Winners were announced on Twitter, often without specifying what project a person had actually won for.

What a difference a year can make.

After dumping the telecast in the aftermath of a damaging expose by the Los Angeles Times, NBC will put the battered 80-year-old Globes back on the air Tuesday under a one-year deal, as opposed to multi-year contracts of the past worth tens of millions of dollars.

A wave of celebrities plan to attend, along with star presenters and funnyman host Jerrod Carmichael after the embattled controllers of the Globes dug deep into the work of implementing top-down reforms.

There’s now a strict code of conduct, refreshed bylaws, a ban on gifts and new rules on accepting travel and other perks from the industry. Contentious news conferences were dumped, and the pool of awards voters was expanded beyond the 87 Los Angeles-based foreign journalists who once ruled the organization.

But are the powerful publicists, studios and other stakeholders who boycotted in protest satisfied with the changes? And are those changes the beginning — or closer to the end?

“It's, by far, not over,” said German journalist Helen Hoehne, who took over as president of the HFPA a year and a half ago. “We always said when we started this journey that it would be ongoing and that it would take some time.”

Kelly Bush Novak, CEO and founder of the A-list public relations firm ID, said more must be done, but she supports steps taken so far.

“We came together ... to ensure the future of the Globes, in step with our culture and our shared values as an industry, and we see commendable and seismic progress,” she said. "I’m optimistic that the work will continue.”

Still, Novak acknowledged not all stakeholders are on board ahead of Tuesday's broadcast, despite sweeping changes aimed at restoring the luster of the Globes.

Last year, publicists like Novak banded together to battle the HFPA, and studios that included Netflix and WarnerMedia cut ties with the organization after the LA Times raised questions about corruption and a range of bias issues over race and sexual orientation.

None of the 87 Hollywood Foreign Press Association members was Black and the group had not had a Black member since at least 2002.

Now, after an effort to increase and diversify its ranks, 199 people decide who gets a Globe, a mix of 96 HFPA members and outsiders from other countries brought in to dilute the power of the old guard. Membership eligibility was expanded from Los Angeles to anywhere in the United States.

Heading into the telecast, Globes voters stand at 52% female, and 51.8% racially and ethnically diverse, including 19.6% Latino, 12.1% Asian, 10.1% Black and 10.1% Middle Eastern. Voters also include those who are LGBTQIA+. In all, 62 countries are represented.

The governing board was expanded from nine to 15 and includes three Black members, two of whom vote on rules and other matters but not awards. Overall, the organization now has six Black HFPA members and 14 Black international Globes voters who aren't members.

Perhaps the most significant change: The Globes were purchased by billionaire Todd Boehly, who also owns the Beverly Hilton, Globes producer dick clark productions and the Chelsea soccer team. He's shifting the voting body from its founding nonprofit status to a for-profit model, pending approval by the California attorney general. He plans to preserve the HFPA's charitable work with a separate nonprofit entity.

A hotline managed by two independent law firms was opened, with complaints investigated by outsiders. A chief diversity officer was hired, and mandatory racial, sexual harassment and sexual orientation sensitivity training was put in place, required for any HFPA member casting Globe votes.

Michelle Williams, nominated for her turn in “The Fabelmans,” is among dozens of stars panning to attend Tuesday.

“It feels to me like the community as a whole has decided that this organization has really done a lot of work to reform themselves and that we can support change, like we can hold people accountable and then we can support them as they continue to journey in their path towards being a better organization,” she said.

Added Judd Hirsch, nominated for the same film: “We'll be there. We'll give them another chance.”

Dumping news conferences at the center of insensitive questions posed to talent who felt obligated to show up helped cool off some critics, but not all.

“I can’t speak for everyone. There may be some reluctance to participate," Novak said. “We must acknowledge the past and will never forget the damage done. Manifesting a new future requires it.”

Brendan Fraser, nominated for his performance in “The Whale,” will not be there Tuesday. In 2018, Fraser said he was groped by Philip Berk, a former HFPA president who is from South Africa.

Berk was expelled in 2021 after calling Black Lives Matter “a racist hate movement.”

“I just hope that we can regain his trust over time,” Hoehne said of Fraser.

The same, Hoehne said, goes for Tom Cruise. Last year, he returned his three Golden Globes in protest. With a best picture nod for his long-awaited sequel “Top Gun: Maverick,” he was snubbed for best actor this year.

Under Boehly's leadership, HFPA members will earn $75,000 a year as his employees, as opposed to current stipends closer to $5,000. They'll vote on nominations and winners among films and television series submitted for awards consideration. They'll write for the organization's website, and organize other projects, the LA Times said, citing a confidential employee memo it reviewed.

The 103 new voting non-members recruited with the help of the National Association of Black Journalists, Asian-American Journalists Association and LGBTQIA+ organizations will not be paid, setting up a two-tier structure aimed at eliminating the taint of financial compensation as more new recruits come on board.

Outraged industry stakeholders had called for the overall Globes voting body to be closer to 300. Other reforms are aimed at battling the perception of influence peddling.

As eventual paid employees, members will be subject to firing without cause. They're now required to sign a code of conduct every year covering job performance, decorum and ethical behavior.

The 80-year-old group had been stuck in its ways, Hoehne acknowledged.

“We needed to question a lot of things. We needed to look at these bylaws and say, OK, how can we make them better? How can we modernize the association? We had never really done it and not addressed it,” she said.

Although the new pay structure has not yet been implemented, over the past year the HFPA has pushed out several members it accused of violating its standards.

One was accused of forging signatures on Internal Revenue Service documents, another case related to sexual harassment and a third involved fabricating interviews that never occurred, according to an HFPA spokesperson.

Boehly himself acknowledged the future is uncertain.

“I have nightmares where it doesn’t work too, you know? I get it, you can’t convince all of the people all of the time of anything,” he told the LA Times. “We know we have to add value and we know that we have to be part of the solution.”

#yesthatssadirichardslove

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God it’s so frustrating. Ik I haven’t talked abt it much but I made a post years ago and the only interaction I got was “women weren’t warriors in Viking times” like dude, they literally found a woman’s body in a Viking’s grave, historically you are wrong. And guess what it’s fiction, and the clearly the norm is women are warriors too, just admit that the execs got lazy and didn’t make female animation models for anyone other than heather, mala and the wingmaidens.

Like u said, you can like something and still be critical about it!

I don’t have it on me but the art book for httyd 2 talks about how Eret’s crew’s designs were based off of the Inuit people, which is a massive missed opportunity for diversity. America Ferrara is a poc voicing a white skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired woman. I’m sure Kit Harrington could have voiced an Inuit character (although casting an actual Inuit person would have been better, I think something is better than nothing and clearly they were grabbing at bigger names since he was used in a lot of promo stuff).

Httyd 3 came across as kind of racist as well, as the bad guys were very heavily asiatic. Httyd 2 got more of a pass tbh but only bc their poc Drago didn’t even come across as poc despite being voiced by a black man. Most of his crew and ships are actually Asian or Polynesian inspired, and his character design does have dreads and a slightly darker skin tone, but he honestly looks more grey than poc? I honestly didn’t twig that he was supposed to be from outside the archipelago until after I read the art book bc it’s so vague. Idk maybe that’s just me.

It’s incredibly lazy, esp after playing AC: Valhalla which has tons of Asian/Middle Eastern characters despite being set in very early medieval England and Norway.

Johann is his own issue, tho I will say I didn’t twig the antisemitism until u mentioned it (I defo see it now tho lol, big nosed trader comes into town and works behind everyone’s back to get money and power? Wow). But I’ve already said my piece about Johann and his absolutely fucked writing, so I won’t go into it here.

Me: narratively speaking it doesn’t make sense for the dragon hunters, outcasts or berserkers to be comprised entirely of men.

Berk clearly has women warriors and doesn’t discriminate or delegate them to safer roles such as home defence. Women seem to be encouraged to be warriors and be muscly. There is a lot of interesting backstory to delve into with this, either drawing inspiration from the irl female vikings, or the darker implications of a war torn Berk desperate for all the warriors it could get its hands on regardless of birth rates (a man can have a hundred children a year, but a woman is limited to 1).

There are other tribes who blatantly follow these same practices, in some cases to higher extremes than berk. The Wingmaidens value female warriors above males as they are unable to manage the razorwhip population due to the animals gender bias. The defenders of the wing have equal male:female ratios in their village and seem to have a mandatory military service for all citizens, including women as all are in armour. Not to mention that they have a queen rather than the stereotypical chief, possibly mimicking the dragon kingdom that they worship.

Dagur doesn’t take offence to heather being a warrior, and there seems to be warrior women on berserker island, but the armada is shockingly made up entirely of men. The outcasts and dragon hunters take it a step further and have no women visible at any point. Compared to berk, the wingmaidens and the defenders of the wing, this is a massive discrepancy.

The obvious answer is that the creators didn’t have the budget for multiple character models, and so they prioritised the male models to fit the audience expectations. The defenders of the wing only have 1:1 gender ratios because their models are reused hiccup and heather models. The wingmaidens are the only culture with consistent multiple female models because it came later in the series, when the creators realised they had an extreme male heavy cast.

This is incredibly gross and should be talked about more as most modern (5 years old is still modern) cartoons have a male heavy focus in both characters and viewerbase despite a great deal of people claiming that women are fairly represented in media, and that feminism is no longer needed.

Tumblr Guy: women weren’t included for historical accuracy.

The dragons: 👀

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Gender: Female

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DOB: 27 April 1985

Ethnicity: Lebanese, white

Nationality: American

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hey im crazy interested in theology but my environment has never rlly fostered it and ive really only gotten as far as the book of revelation. do you have like an extensive list of stuff you've learned about/read/are interested in?? like the real historical deep dives? i know the basics but i want to really learn the details and the fringe stuff but i don't even know what im looking for. just like. anything to do w theology especially catholic. if you have the time though of course so np if not!! thank you either way:))

i am happy to make a list! below i've condensed an mdiv and half a doctorate in theology. if you need any particular recs, any pdfs, or any syllabi on a subject, dont hesitate to pm me. ofc some of these broad categories overlap. i've tried to keep this to books and not articles because that would overwhelm me

tanakh

coogan & chapman historical & literary intro to the hb; trible god & the rhetoric of sexuality; christine hayes' yale divinity school lecture series; bellis & kaminsky jews, christians, and the theology of hebrew scripture; near eastern archeology (journal); ex audito (journal); robert alter (translations); walter brueggeman; anchor bible series; john barton critical companion to hb

early christianity

(primary sources): gnostic texts; irenaeus; ignatius of antioch; eusebius; ambrose; jerome; augustine; nestorius; cyril of alexandria; capadocian fathers; dionysius; bede; meister eckhart; aquinas (secondary sources): norris christological controversy

martyrs & mystics

(primary sources): perpetua & felicity; blandina, queen pulcheria (read of her from nestorius); julian of norwich, hildegard von bingen; macrina; quintilla & priscilla (montanists writ large); theresa of avila (secondary sources): mandelker & powers pilgrim souls; beverly lanzetta womens body as mystical text; patricia donahue-white reading divine maternity; estelle jelinek tradition of women's autobiography; bernard ginn the varieties of vernacular mysticism; anne jensen god's self-confident daughters; peterson handamiden's of the lord; peter brown the body & society; epstein & schraub body guards: the cultural politics of gender ambiguity; gilliam clark the female man of god; herbert musirello the acts of christian martyrs; taylor petrey resurrecting parts; many will also recommend caroline bynam holy feast & holy fast and rudolph bell holy anorexia--i do not recommend these but they may be essential context

feminist, womanist theologies; asian theologies, mujerista theologies, disability theology, ecotheology

(keep in mind that some of these are first and second wave feminsim and do not reflect theological standards of inclusivity) rosemary ruether sexism and god talk; elizabeth johnson she who is; delores williams sisters in the wilderness; monica coleman making a way of out no way; m. shawn copeland enfleshing freedom; melanie harris ecowomanism; mary daly beyond god the father; jacquelyn grant white women's christ and black women's jesus; elizabeth johnson women, earth, creator spirit; katie canon katie's canon; marit trelstad cross examninations; monica coleman ain't i a womanist too?; virginia fabella & sun ai lee park we dare to dream; ada maria isasi-diaz en la lucha, daphne hampson on autonomy and heteronomy; kwok pui lan introducing asian feminist theology; elizabeth schussler-fiorenza in memory of her; phyllis trible texts of terror; eboni marshall turnman towards a womanist ethic of incarnation; lai ling elizabeth ngan ways of being, ways of reading; kelly brown douglass the black christ; chung myun kyung struggle to be the sun again; carol christ rebirth of the goddess; sallie mcfague models of god; mayra rivera decolonizing epistemologies; crscy john we dare to dream; karen baker-fletcher sisters of dust, sisters of spirit; sharon v betcher spirit and the politics of disablement; darby kathleen ray deceiving the devil; rita nakashima brock & rebecca parker proverbs of ashes: violence, redemptive suffering, and the search for what saves us; readings in ecology and feminist theology; elizabeth johnson ask the beasts; kwon pui-lan postcolonial imagination & feminist theology; kelly brown douglas sexuality & the black church; marcella althaus reid indecent theology; monica r. miller in ain't i a womanist too?; the oxford handbook of theology, sexuality, and gender; isasi-diaz in our own voices: latino/a renditions of theology

critical theory and carnal hermeneutics

richard kearney carnal hermeneutics; emmanuel falque the metamorphosis of finitude; jean-luc marion god without being; elaine scary the body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world; bataille eroticism: death and sensuality; thomas lacquer making sex; jean-luc nancy on being; emmanuel falque the wedding feast of the lamb; noel carrol the philosophy of horror; monster theory; jean-luc nancy corpus; lacan's fifth seminar; jean-luc nancy being with the without

horror

the medusa reader; richard kearney stranger's gods and monsters; gerard loughlin alien sex; barbara creed the monstrous feminine; daniel stephen hey the malady lingers on; julia kristeva powers of horror; yi fu tuan landscapes of fear; jacques derrida the animal that i am; elizabeth klaver images of the corpse; foucault the abormal; rene girard violence and the sacred; adams christ and horrors; kristeva stabat mater; philip johnston shades of sheol

queer theory

pak su yon coming home/coming out; gloria anzaldua speaking in tongues; tina beattie queen of heaven; dale b martin sex and the single savior; joseph marchal bodies on the verge: queering pauline epistles; rhiannon graybill are we not men? unstable masculinity in the hebrew bible; queer theology: rethinking the western body

appetites

t&t clark handbook to early christian meals in the greco-roman world; peter-ben smit fellowship & food in the kingdom; pitre brant jesus & the last supper; mary douglas food & the social order; mary douglas deciphering a meal; panayotis coutsoumpos, paul and the lords supper; reta halteman finger of widows & meals; hal taussig in the beginning was the meal; david grummet material eucharist

aesthetics & art

bal mieke contemporary art, preposterous history; jo cherylo exum between the text and the canvas: the bible and art in dialogue; richard taylor how to read a church; david gordon finding beauty where god finds beauty: a biblical foundation of aesthetics; rosalind hackett art & religion in africa; steven pinker on mentalese; thames & hudson the reenchanment of art; elizabeth grosz chaos, territory, art: deleuze and the framing of the world; griselda pollack psychoanalysis and the image; john berger ways of seeing; james elkins the object stares back; james elkins pictures & tears; helene cixous stigmata; gaston bachelard the poetics of space; james elkins on the strange place of religion in art; theodore adorno aesthetic theory; gilles deleuze pure immanence; david morgan the sacred gaze

sacraments

(primary sources): hans boersma heavenly participation; calvin institutes; hubmaier balthasar; luther; edward schillebeeckx christ the sacrament of the encounter of god; alenxander schmeman; tertullian de baptismo; aquinas summa contra gentiles; zwingli (secondary sources): gustaf aulen eucharist & sacrafice; r swanson unity & diversity in the church; john behr the trinitarian being of the church; paul f bradshaw (prolific in this subject); yngve brillioth eucharistic faith & practice; clifford dugmore the mass & english reformers; gayle felton this gift of water; j fisher christian initiation; edward kilmartin the active role of christ and the holy spirit in the sanctification; jack lewis baptismal practices of 2nd and 3rd century church; andrew mcgowan is there a liturgical text in this gospel?; john mckenna eucharistic presence; frank meige sacramental semiosis; kyle pasewark the body in ecstasy; h. m. riley christian initiation; herman sasse this is my body; e. j. yarnouth anaphoras without institution narratives; kimberly belcher hope efficacious engagement; brightman the english rite

#recommendations #ref #long post #ask #faq

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here’s my giant leftist to-read list for the next few years!!!

if a little (done!) it written next to the book, it means i’ve finished it! i’m gonna try to update this as i read but no promises on remembering haha

Economics/Politics

Property by Karl Marx

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (done!)

Wages, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx (done!)

Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx (done!)

Capital Volume I by Karl Marx

The 1844 Manuscripts by Karl Marx

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Fredrich Engles

Synopsis of Capital by Fredrich Engels

The Principles of Communism by Fredrich Engles

Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism by Vladmir Lenin

The State And Revolution by Vladmir Lenin

The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky

Fascism: What is it and How to Fight it by Leon Trotsky

In Defense Of Marxism by Leon Trotsky

The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemborg

Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

Profit over People by Noam Chomsky

An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory by Ernest Mandel

The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Postmodern Condition by Jean François Lyotard

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

The Socialist Reconstruction of Society by Daniel De Leon

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Socialism Made Easy by James Connolly

Race

Biased: Uncover in the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji

Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism And The Persistence Of Racial Inequality In America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy And The Racial Divide by Crystal M. Flemming

This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For The Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesymn Ward

Class, Race, and Marxism by David R. Roediger

America for Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States by Erica Lee

The Politics Of The Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

A Different Mirror A History Of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

Black Theory

The Wretched Of The World by Frantz Fanon

Black Marxism by Cedric J Robinson

Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X

Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Davis

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis (done!)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis (done!)

The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Ain’t I A Woman? by Bell Hooks

Yearning by Bell Hooks

Dora Santana’s Works

An End To The Neglect Of The Problems Of The Negro Women by Claudia Jones

I Am Your Sister by Audre Lorde

Women’s Liberation And The African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara

W.E.B. DuBois Essay Collection

Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois

Lynch Law by Ida B. Wells

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Sula by Toni Morrison

Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Paradise by Toni Morrison

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Black Skins, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Killing of the Black Body

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton

Settlers; The myth of the White Proletariat

Fearing The Black Body; The Racial Origins of Fatphobia

Freedom Dreams; The Black Radical Imagination

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

An Argument For Black Women’s Liberation As a Revolutionary Force by Mary Anne Weathers

Voices of Feminism Oral History Project by Frances Beal

Ghosts In The Schoolyard: Racism And School Closings On Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, Big Business, Re-create Race In The 21st Century by Dorothy Roberts

We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation by Jeff Chang

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

The Common Wind by Julius S. Scott

Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine by Emily Bernard

We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affects Us and What We Can Do

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life Of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies

Black Studies Manifesto by Darlene Clark

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Darkwater by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Education Of Blacks In The South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Color Of Money: Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

A Black Women’s History Of The United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, In The Building Of A Nation by Daina Ramey Berry

North Of Slavery: The Negro In The Free States, 1780-1869 by Leon F. Litwack

Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers In The Twenty-First Century by Monique M. Morris

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique M. Morris

40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of The Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden

From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

A More Beautiful And Terrible History: The Uses And Misuses Of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present by Harriet A. Washington

Working At The Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework” by Moya Bailey

Theory by Dionne Brand

Black Women, Writing, And Identity by Carole Boyce Davies

Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II by Douglass A. Blackmon

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now by Andre Perry

The Origins Of The Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality In Postwar Detroit by Thomas Surgue

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays and Poems by Claudia Jones

The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni McCade

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances Beal

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Indigenous Theory

Colonize This! by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman

As We Have Always Done

Braiding Sweetgrass

Spaces Between Us

The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen

Native: Identity, Belonging, And Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtice

An Indigenous People’s History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, And The Pursuit Of Justice For Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga

All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma In The Shadow Of Colonialism by Tanya Talaga

All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward by Tanya Talaga

Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask by Anton Treuer

Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer

Latine Theory

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of A Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez

De Colores Means All Of Us by Elizabeth Martinez

Middle Eastern And Muslim Theory

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young And Arab In America by Moustafa Bayoumi

We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer

Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat

API Theory

Orientalism by Edward Said

The Making Of Asian America by Erika Lee

On Gold Mountain by Lisa See

Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki

They Called Us Enemy (Graphic Novel) by George Takei

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White by Frank H. Wu

Alien Nation: Chinese Migration In The Americas From The Coolie Era Through World War II by Elliott Young

The Good Immigrants: How The Yellow Peril Became The Model Minorities by Madeline H. Ysu

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence Of An American People by Helen Zia

The Myth Of The Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Rosalind S. Chou & Joe R. Feagin

Two Faces Of Exclusion: The Untold Story Of Anti-Asian Racism In The United States by Lon Kurashige

Whiteness

White Fragility by Robin Di Angelo (done!)

White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman

Waking Up White by Deby Irving

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son by Tim Wise

White Rage by Carol Anderson

What Does It Mean To Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo

The Invention of The White Race: Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control by Theodore W. Allen

The Invention of The White Race: Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen

Immigration

Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftir

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work by Edwidge Danticat

My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

Voter Suppression

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

Give Us The Vote: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights In America by Ari Berman

Prison Abolition And Police Violence

Abolition Democracy by Angela Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

The Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis

Political Prisoners, Prisons, And Black Liberation by Angela Davis

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (done!)

The End Of Policing by Alex S Vitale

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie

Choke Hold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

From The War On Poverty To The War On Crime: The Making Of Mass Incarceration In America by Elizabeth Hinton

Feminist Theory

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

7 Feminist And Gender Theories

Race, Gender, And Class by Margaret L. Anderson

African Gender Studies by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

The Invention Of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

What Gender Is Motherhood? by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I Am Malala by Malala Youssef

LGBT Theory

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution by Judith Butler

Imitation and Gender Insubordination by Judith Butler

Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler

Excitable Speech by Judith Butler

Undoing Gender by Judith Butler

The Roots Of Lesbian And Gay Opression: A Marxist View by Bob McCubbin

Compulsory Heterosexuality And Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by B. Binohan

Gay.Inc: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Merl Beam

Pronouns Good or Bad: Attitudes and Relationships with Gendered Pronouns

Transgender Warriors

Whipping Girl; A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Stone Butch Blues by Lesie Feinberg (done!)

The Stonewall Reader by Edmund White

Sissy by Jacob Tobia

Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

Butch Queens Up In Pumps by Marlon M. Bailey

Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identities by C Riley Snorton

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson

#ref #book list #reading list #leftist reading list

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The Rittenhouse Trial will answer the question of whether a mommy-anointed reactionary sociopath has the right to

- Cross state lines to ‘protect property’ (not his family’s) by brandishing an military-style ‘hunting’ rifle and if necessary kill whomever.

- Stand 10+ feet from a shirtless (no concealed weapons) empty handed white advocate of Social Justice

- Slaughter the Social Justice advocate in a fusillade of bullets including shooting the deceased in the back.

Then the reactionary sociopath NOT be convicted of homicide by an 11/12ths white jury in a State court

Because that’s what the Second Amendment is all about.

Did I trigger anyone with ‘sociopath’?

After shooting Mr.Rosenbaum, Kyle Rittenhouse can be seen on video making a cell phone call.

Did he call 911 for EMTs as he jogged away without looking back?

Uh huh. Sociopath.

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The Second Amendment exists for the sole purpose of insuring that reactionary sociopaths are not deprived of the weapons they need to terrorize and murder

Lazy but complaining Black people

Lazy but complaining Indigenous people

Lazy but complaining Spanish heritage brown people

Lazy but treacherous Mideasterners

Asians of any Ethnicity or gender because of y’know Pearl Harbor and Covid.

Sneaky sleepy-eyed baby-blood drinking Jewish people who are representatives of an international cabal

Depraved LGBTQ+2s people

The ever changing roster of ‘threatening’ immigrants’ which once did but no longer automatically includes caucasians like Greeks, Italians, Portugese, Eastern Europeans.

Anyone of any ethnicity or gender not speaking a language other than English in a public place.

Uppity, complaining and falsely accusing after ‘asking for it’ females

Labor Union Members of any ethnicity or gender who call for higher wages and increased safety measures.

Government officials of any ethnicity or gender who don’t kowtow to reactionaries demands

Women’s Healthcare professionals of any gender whose work aids female autonomy

Economically dispossessed of any gender or ethnicy because reactionaries can shoot them and no real inverstigation will be performed - so it’s ‘practice’

Medical or government officials of any ethnicity or gender responsible for containing outbreaks of diseases.

Teachers and students, happy shoppers in malls, happy party-goers of any ethnicity or gender and who fail to show required deference to the underage Norman Bates who raid their gun-hugging reactionary families unsecured arsenal to punish their ostracization.

Ex-Co-workers of any ethnicity or gender who have held on to jobs just when the reactionary lost theirs (NOT ONCE in hundreds of shootings attacking the higher ups who made the firing decision. Never higher than immediate supervisor)

State and local elected policy and lawmakers, historically white males but of late, of any gender or ethnicity who propose or vote measures for social justice, school lunches, healthcare etc etc etc

Any advocates or protestors of any ethnicity or gender who are for social justice.

ALL of the foregoing have experienced multiple homicides often mass shootings by largely white cis het male reactionaries using legally purchased and unregistered high capacity semi-automatic firearms.

ALWAYS this terror and murder benefits the 1% of the 1% by inhibiting concerted action to improve social and working conditions.

IMPROVEMENTS in equality and general welfare that would REDUCE profits.

WISELY the wealthiest 10% of the population - the ONLY VOTERS 1755 to 1800+ - included a counter to the inevitable expansion of voting rights: the Second Amendment.

THE SECOND AMENDMENT insures the continued existence of an unpaid and self-funded Secret Police hair-triggered to suppress progressive social forces. Suppress economic, gender, legal equality. Suppress safety or regulatory measures.

If the 1% of the 1% didn’t have the willfully brain-dead like Mommy Rittenhouse transporting and arming the Kyles, the oligarchs would have to reach into their own pants and PAY thugs. BUY the guns and the ammo. Provide transportation. Violates their sacred principal: “Always work with other People’s money.”

Obviously it doesn’t matter to the 1% of the 1% of Kyle is freed or convicted. Anymore than if he had died. Easily replaced since, as their business model outlines: “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

Demonstrating that in “USA! USA! USA! We’re #1 - NO LIVES MATTER. ONLY PROFITS and PROPERTY.”

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