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[iheartallura]

just a reminder:

a black girl character growing her hair out long breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character having short hair

a black girl character getting to be soft and fragile breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character being strong all the time

a black girl character being protected and comforted by others breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character having no one to look out for her but herself

a black girl character being considered pretty or cute by other characters breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character being considered unattractive

not everything that is empowering for white girls is empowering for black girls

the sexism we face overlaps, but it is not the same

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STOP. DON'T SCROLL. READ THIS TO SAVE LIVES IN GAZA. Below are some VETTED campaigns to support Gazans. These people have been experiencing an active genocide for almost a full year. Donate and share widely.

(may 27th)

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[ethereal-muses]

The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.

– Rodger Kamenetz

[happyheidi]

take yourself on an adventure ♡

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[beforeitwastoolate]

- Fernando Pessoa, tr. by Jonathan Griffin, from I Have More Souls Than One; "Tobacconist's,"

[sweetmilk222]

craving: academic validation 🎓🕯🎀

[sylviaplathquotes]

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.” - Sylvia Plath

[freelance-philosopher]

“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[silverystardustt]

[aurora-antebellum]

[somerabbitholes]

Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

[ancientsstudies]

Van Gogh Museum.

[honeylavendermilktea]

I’m sorry it took me so long to make these but— here ya go 

[badangelsx]

this is sooo good omfg

[braveryedits]

[harrys-thick-thighs]

hate to say it but…

ok so recent events with harry have got me thinking. I’ve actually had these thoughts and opinions for a very long time, but as we all know, stan culture can be very toxic. I think we all need to get away from this notion that just because of you’re a fan of someone, you cant call them out on their wrong-doings and you can’t ever disagree with them. I think blindly standing by someone in everything they do can be very dangerous and it sends the wrong message. that being said, I was scrolling through @littledreamybeth blog and I saw the same opinions that I’ve had for a while but have been too afraid to share because I didn’t want people to come for me…but at this point, I don’t care. harrys right: teenage girls do have a bs detector. so naturally, as a teenage girl, I’m gonna call him on his bs. and some of yall are bout to be mad fo real fo real. but hey…be mad about it 

1. I didn’t like Harry’s rolling stone interview. some bits I enjoyed, (the parts about BLM and women’s rights -ill get to that too- and the part at the end with his mom) but overall to me it just seemed forced. now, I don’t know if the interview was scripted or what but it seemed very much like he was trying to portray this iconic legendary rockstar image, like a Jagger or a Mercury, but it just missed the mark. it sounded very forced and something about it came off as pretentious? For example, the whole shrooms thing…something about it seemed very off. it was as if he was saying he couldn’t write well or be iconic on his own…so he used drugs. I have less of a problem with the fact that he wrote and recorded the album high, and more of a problem with the fact that it seemed like he didn’t believe in his own talent. at least that’s how I came off to me. now I’ve said this before: it’s easy to say “he’s trying to be someone he’s not” when we really don’t know him personally. but I genuinely feel that the image he was trying to portray in the interview isn’t who he is or wants to be…it seemed very manufactured. 

2. speaking of being manufactured…ive tried to ignore how I feel about this next point for a very long time. harrys “non-usage” of social media really irritates me for a multitude of reasons. firstly..it would be one thing if he didn’t use social media AT ALL. and for a while, I think that’s what we all thought. but we all saw that he accidentally posted (and then almost immediately took down) something on his insta story that was clearly meant for his finsta or close friends story. now it wasn’t anything too personal or scandalous…it was literally a picture of the T-shirt he was wearing. but to me, this whole notion of “I like to be private” has really gotten out of hand lol. it makes me feel like he only wants to interact with us when he wants us to buy something or vote for him or something of that nature. no one is asking to get on Instagram live and read his diary. but popping in to say hey or interacting with his fans makes us feel like he actually cares to have a relationship with us when hes not touring or trying to sell something. now I totally get that he needs downtime, and I can even understand wanting to be private. nor do I feel entitled to everything about him. but when he drops off the face of the earth, doesn’t interact with us FOR LITERAL MONTHS, and then only pops back up when his album goes on sale…it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. it makes me feel like he’s taking advantage of the people he knows will support him regardless of anything. that’s a real slap in the face and I don’t even think people realize that how he’s been treating us. we would love to see silly mundane shit from him because it makes us feel closer to him. id rather know what T-shirt he was wearing or what he eats for breakfast rather than a manufactured breakup narrative on an album that sounds like its gonna be a lot like the first one. 

3. I really don’t wanna call harry “fake woke” because I really genuinely don’t think he is. I think this part of his rs interview was one of the only parts where we got to see the true harry. However…his dating history makes me question. now I want to make clear that I realize that I don’t know harry or any of his “ex-girlfriends” personally. I only know what’s on the internet, which we all know can be skewed and often isn’t the whole story. I also realize that Harry’s relationships aren’t any of our business. but for such a private person, his relationships always end up being shoved down our throats. so in turn, it does become our business. harrys girlfriends have been…less than favorable in my opinion. from Taylor Swift and her white feminism to Kendall Jenner and her racist family to Camille Rowe and her trolling and overall attention-seeking antics. all that just makes me wonder Harry’s opinion because there could be one of 3 things happening behind the scenes: either we don’t have the full story, Harry doesn’t see the issues, or he just doesn’t care. at least with kj, I find it hard to believe that he doesn’t see the issue or we don’t have a full store cause we can go and watch any episode of the tv show and see she and her family are racist as hell. so that makes me wonder…does he not care? it’s easy to preach one thing to the public and then don’t live by those same values behind closed doors. I fully believe that while no, someone is not responsible for the actions of their friends or partners, they are the reflection of them. so no, harry is not responsible for anyone actions besides his own. but it says a lot that he seems to be ok with some of the disgusting actions of his past partners (im looking at Kendall and Camille in particular) and that’s a reflection on him. 

4. my other issue is that he claims everyone is beautiful and equal. but we ALL KNOW Harry doesn’t even entertain the thought of dating someone who doesn’t fit the profile of a tall, skinny, white girl (preferably a model) with seemingly no other personality trait besides being problematic in some way. obviously, I understand that we all have preferences and even “types” but when you seem to close off yourself to so many other types of people to one VERY SPECIFIC type…it makes me wonder about you…especially when you preach about feminism but then essentially say “no other type of woman is worthy of my attention.” and this doesn’t just go for harry.. I see regular degular shmegular men and boys do this exact same thing all the time and it’s fucking hypocritical and it needs to stop. I’m not saying he needs to date certain types of people just for the image of it…that’s not ok either. im just saying…i think he needs to look in the mirror. 

so yea those are my thoughts..some of yall are really bout to be mad but I don’t care. I don’t think Harrys a bad guy or is fake woke or is a terrible person. I just think his public image needs fixing (starting with new management but that’s a rant for another day). as a fan who knows a lot of things the general public doesnt know about harry, I can see all the conflicting narratives and ideas and im tired yall. but again, I dont know harry. this is all bases on that I’m being fed. will I still remain a fan? idk probably…depending on this next album and everything that’s gonna come with it. I’m just at the age now where I can see through the bull shit and have no problem calling it out. in a nutshell, harrys trying so hard to be an enigma and this iconic rockstar and the more time passes, the more it just looks forced, manufactured and pretentious. you can agree or disagree, you can support my opinion or send me hate… I don’t care. 

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