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poem. from salt. by @nayyirah.waheed #salt #nejma #literature #nayyirahwaheed

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Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, said something that tremendously appeals to me, that history deposits in us an infinity of traces — all kinds of marks through heredity, collective experience, individual ones, a whole book— but there's no inventory, there's no orderly guide to it. The most interesting human task at the outset then is to try and make sense of it, this task of interpretation of history, to move beyond generalisation. The goal is to transform us from a unitary identity to an identity that includes the other, without suppressing the differences.

Bahrain says Good Morning! 😊

Know your worth — إِعرَفْ قِيمَتٓك ------------------------------ Beautiful Arabic Calligraphy ht: @theartistnooralsuwaidi 💜

برج ساعة الديرة، أو كما كان يسمى مسبقاً دوار ساعة دبي في السبعينات . . . Deira Clocktower roundabout, originally referred to as the Dubai Clocktower roundabout, during the 1970s.

#Repost @alexisohanian with @repostapp ・・・ Proud to be working with @RayoufAlhumedhi and @jenny8lee on a proposal for the Unicode Technical Committee to add a headscarf emoji, for millions of women across the globe to be represented. She's doing an AMA in the @Reddit community r/twoxchromosomes right now (link in bio) and is easily among the most impressive 15 year olds I've met. Why? Emoji have become such a big part of our communication (historians are going to have fun so much fun with this) that to leave out hundreds of millions of people is glaring. As a white American man I've greatly benefited from the different perspectives I've found on communities like r/islam where people are speaking freely about feeling marginalized. Emoji may not seem like a big deal, but it's one more way for a lot of people to feel acknowledged and represented -- and that's a good thing. ⬆️

#repost

Michelangelo on age, and insatiable curiosity.

Mum recovered about 1000 Iraqi Dinars dated back to 1981 after cleaning Granny's safe. No idea if they're worth anything beyond sentimental value now. Interesting find. Made her nostalgic for #Baghdad and #Basra University days. Reminder of how the Great #Iraq once was.

#baghdad #iraq #basra

Letter from Gandhi to Hitler, 1939.

A year old @reddit post, still as relevant as ever. Also, the best breakdown of #BlackLivesMatter yet.

#blacklivesmatter

A curious letter from Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx. Re: learning Arabic & Persian (1853). ———— Here's the rest of the letter: http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/marx/works/1853/letters/53_06_06.htm

medievalpoc

While Murray assumes considerable real estate in the foreground of the painting, there is great care in the representation of Belle. She is not darkened nor obscured, her gaze is fixed and direct; she is smiling and is dressed as an aristocrat. The portrait is exceptional for these reasons.

Other images of the period present a black identity negatively and these images exist in great abundance. And what we learn from looking back at these images is telling: the white European perception of our bodies, our beauty rendered in such monstrous ways to the edification of whiteness is the tool of white supremacy.

We are very much still negotiating the impact of seeing images that erase and obscure black beauty and humanity today.

Our blended histories have yet to be accurately represented in popular consciousness, so every old story uncovered becomes a new retelling and a demand that we examine some painful truths about our past and how it shapes our present.

-Syreeta McFadden, “Belle Navigates Blurred Lines Between Race, Gender, and Class in 18th Century Britain” (feministing.com)

Medievalpoc posts tagged “Dido Elizabeth Belle”

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Someone recently asked me about the first thing I saw or read that seeded the idea for medievalpoc.

This portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle was included in a presentation for Honors Interdisciplinary History of Western Civ (part 2 i think), a nine-credit course in a program I was in back in college, years ago. And even being a part of something that intensive (the full program had 24 req’d credits of JUST interdisciplinary history), I’m pretty sure this was the only painting of its kind I saw.

Making these images more accessible to educators and students (in or outside of institutions!) is one of the main goals of this project, because I know from experience that sometimes art can inspire us in ways we never expected or imagined.

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political, and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' " —Isaac Asimov

A dark day for Europe. Oh UK, what have you done? The US should view the #Brexit results as a cautionary tale re: who shows up to vote. Fear & hate motivate more than the status quo. #EUReferendum

#brexit #eureferendum

On Absence, by the brilliant @nayyirah.waheed

#Repost @uaespaceagency ・・・ ‏سعادة الدكتور خليفة الرميثي وتشارلز بولدن عقب توقيع مذكرة التفاهم بين وكالة الإمارات للفضاء ووكالة الفضاء الأمريكية Dr. Khalifa Al Romaithi and Charles Bolden after signing the agreement between #UAESpaceAgency and @nasa

#uaespaceagency #repost

Interesting thought. Re: Gun Control:

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