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Light was thick and full of potential, remember
that night in the years of 8pm curfew
when summers were long
and wet
under sheets, waiting for morning, remember
these things.
Light hit my adult room with its adult worry
today
I wished you were here to
whisper a story into my curled
back
and let the day end
just so.
Beyond Berlin: London and other transplants
Beyond Berlin: London and other transplants
This past week, I visited my good friend D in London who, like me, is an American transplant*. We have similar trajectories and political ponderings, though his roots lie far from mine in the American Deep South (here’s a beautiful piece he wrote about his home in Mississippi). D now lives in East London, where the corner store owner greets you in an upbeat banter and the sign to a ‘Carolina…
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World Cup Fever: How malleable is German identity?
World Cup Fever: How malleable is German identity?
In 2006 Germany hosted the World Cup; it also organized a social-marketing campaign for the sole purpose of revamping and re-solidifying patriotism. These things, i.e. national pride, rarely happen organically, particularly for countries with strong regional identities and histories of division. The goal of the campaign: the encouragement of colors-wearing, flag-toting, ‘Schland’-cheering…
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Review: Berlin needs you (but why?)
Review: Berlin needs you (but why?)
©Barbara Dietl
Why is immigration important? The debate takes many angles. There’s the demographic argument, that developed countries with low birth rates and aging populations need bodies to maintain the replacement rate. There’s the globalization take, that the movement of people in all forms is increasingly inevitable and contributes to global competitiveness and 21st century skills. The moral…
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and I say “and them” and mean how in “the sticks” where I lived, the reservation, the mail- boxes were like maypoles at the end of the Earth I mean beginning of the dirt road that leads to the home that is no longer there, but I rest my cheek against the cool linoleum of my memory whenever Canal Street is too thick or the subway slams into the two men fighting in front of me
Thems by Tommy Pico - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)
Interview: the Klezmer Gentiles
Interview: the Klezmer Gentiles
An interview is never one-sided – in fact, it is a constructive conversation. I am as much a part of this piece and the artist who answered my questions. Without the contributions of the other, individual statements would hold little significance. So thanks, Soli, for letting me share our conversation.
International artists in Berlin are one category of newcomers who, although shaping the…
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Review: Seeing Berlin Through The Homeless
Review: Seeing Berlin Through The Homeless
In Berlin they are especially visible on the Bahn. They wait for the subway doors to close before they address the car with a rehearsed speech. Excuse the interruption, I am one of Berlin’s annoying homeless people… it usually begins, as they peddle newspapers and scan the crowd for an outstretched hand holding change or food. The majority of us keep our hands tucked away or firmly gripping our…
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I think this obsession we have in our culture with shaving — taking away body hair on men and women — I think it’s really dangerous, it’s like wanting to infantilize yourself and wanting to make something sexy that is not adult, it’s more prepubescent, and I think that’s really weird and dangerous, don’t you?
Alan Cumming speaking to Fresh Air about Cabaret, sexuality, and body hair (via nprfreshair)
With violence and discontent back on the rise, Rio’s authorities appear to be returning to old strategies, using military force against favela dwellers. In the context of the World Cup, the desire to keep the situation under tight control – and keep visitors safe – seems to be superseding the city’s long-term goal of integrating the favelas with the city proper.
The Innovative Policy at the Heart of Fresh Violence in Rio (via theatlanticcities)
Rave: the California Breakfast Slam Effect
Rave: the California Breakfast Slam Effect
The relationship between food and identity, or simply food and a sense of belonging, is well-known to those of us who have sought out Hass avocados or Toll House chocolate chips (often in vain) in places beyond the United States. For me, there is something ultimately gratifying, even safe, about opening that jar of Adam’s peanut butter or letting the smell of buttermilk biscuits fill my Berlin…
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Now that I’ve finished, I feel a void. What saved me was poetry, because I always wrote poetry. I think that poetry saves whoever writes it and saves whoever reads it.
The Third Maria, Oona Patrick and Dean Ellis interview Maria Teresa Horta - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)
Art invades the parking lot of the Italian newspaper La Stampa in Turin (Italy). It’s Abithoudini and the author is Agostino Iacurci.
awesome.
Integration in Berlin: Research for a Desolate Landscape
On April 2, the new Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM) was launched. Certainly not the first institute of its kind in Germany, Berlin’s Humboldt University, the Hertie Foundation, the Federal Employment Agency, and the German Football Association held a press conferenceto frame this initiative as new and needed. The reason: the field - what is really known…
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Interview: The Taxi Driver
Interview: The Taxi Driver
Had I hopped into Orhan’s taxi en route to the airport, I likely would’ve assumed he was Turkish and left it at that. He might have asked me where I was flying to and I might have commented on the weather. He would’ve pulled my suitcase out of the trunk and wished me a good flight, and I would’ve thanked him. But instead, thankfully, I met Orhan in a very different context – our Wednesday evening…
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"When the sun shines, it shines without any discrimination; it shines on every point of the country, every nook and corner.
We should be like that.”
~A little bit of sunshiny wisdom from The Dalai Lama, from The Way to Freedom.
(Photo by Tommy Clark)
Review: "Schwarz gemacht" and the white audience
Review: “Schwarz gemacht” and the white audience
As a student of my own history and place in this world, nothing is more difficult for me than to write about issues of privilege, white-ness, black-ness, and justice in one sitting, because there is so much that can go wrong, so many terms that can be mis-used or mis-assigned, and so many truths that cannot be conveyed in one text. I have done my best. And with all my socio-anthropological…
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Interview: Three Dimensions of Integration
Interview: Three Dimensions of Integration
Immigrant integration and identity can be very personal subjects and not everyone wishes for their views and experiences to be made public. Though all the stories in this interview are true, names and cities have been changed to protect the artist’s identity, per his request.
It’s easy (and admittedly amusing) to reduce expats to stereotypes, as if we all neatly fall into one or the other…
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