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April is Dalit History Month! One way to learn about this minority, who have and continue to face discrimination, here’s a short profile on Shailaja Paik, an Indian Dalit historian who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2024:
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April is Dalit History Month! One way to learn about this minority, who have and continue to face discrimination, here’s a short profile on Shailaja Paik, an Indian Dalit historian who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2024:
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Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology & Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, has been named a 2024 MacArthur Fellowby the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The MacArthur Fellowship is a five-year grant to individuals who show exceptional originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits.
Book of the Day - Grit
Book of the Day – Grit
Today’s Book of the Day is Grit, written by Angela Duckworth and published in 2016 by Scribner. Dr. Angela Duckworth is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a world-renowned expert in those competencies that are not directly related to our IQ. Grit, by Angela Duckworth I have read again this book in the last few days as I…
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i really recommend listening to the podcast Once Upon A Time in Bennington season 2 for The Secret History lovers. I think the second half of the 14 episodes focus more on Donna Tartt but I recommend listening to all episodes because you can see so many influences from the other notable people who were in Donna's circle (Brett E. Ellis, author of Less than Zero, American Psycho, and A Fortress of Solitude; Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and MacArthur Fellow). The influence of Vermont and of Bennington the college make their way into TSH heavily too. Im only on episode 5, but 5/5 so far!
I confess, there were moments yesterday where I was frustrated by the lack of force, deadly or otherwise, used by law enforcement yesterday on that display of entitlement and unchecked privilege. But then, I paused. Leaned into the emotion and located where it was coming from. It was coming from a place of grief. From the broken record of body bags that remind people that look like me that our protest, our riots, are in the name lives taken. Ours are of fear and last resort. Our grievence is one of the unloved. A country that has not reciprocated the level of sacrifice we've made for it. A country we have, to date, been unable to make love us, the way we deserve to be loved. The way it loves others. Theirs, yesterday, was a riot of fears that have yet to be realized on American soil. Fears hypothetical, yet inevitable. Fear of not being first. Fear of not being most. Fear of not getting their way. Fear of an uncertain future. Our fears, our riots are evidence based. An documented legacy of unsolved, not prosecuted, acquitted and systemically encouraged lethal violence. We march for our lives. Yesterday's "rally" was for a lifestyle. Today, our only certainty is an uncertain future...every time we leave our f****** house. They are rioting against what tomorrow might bring. We are rioting against what the past has wrought. Change is what we are fighting for, because the "way things are" hasn't worked for us since the founding of this nation. That is the desperation in our protests, I am unsure of the perceived discomfort in theirs. They are rioting to keep things stagnant, when rational science (and time) teach us that change is the only constant. "An important function of almost every system is to ensure its own perpetuation." - Dr. Donella H. Meadows, MacArthur Genius I no longer wish that they "got what was coming to them" yesterday...I just hope that next time they are the same color as me, that they are met with the same level of compassion and lack of contempt. 🙏🏾 #JacobBlake #CapitolRiots #US #Capitol #USCapitol #Kaepernick #DonellaMeadows
Duilian. Wu Tsang. HD color video with sound, installation view. 2016.
Recently announced as one of the 2018 MacArthur Fellows, Wu Tsang is an award-winning filmmaker and performance artist who creates works that deal with issues of gender, sexuality, and hybridity. Tsang is widely recognized for “creating new conceptual and visual vocabularies for exploring hidden histories and marginalized narratives in works that collapse the boundaries between documentary and fiction.”
Duilian is a film inspired by the historial figure and late 19th-century revolutionary poet and feminist Qiu Jin (秋瑾). Tsang reinterprets tales of Qiu Jin and her alleged lover, calligrapher Wu Zhiying in modern day Hong Kong in a film amalgamation of documentary and kung fu genre. The work’s title refers to both traditional couplet poetry and a dueling category in wushu martial arts. According to Arthub, “Duilian decodes and deliberately ‘mistranslates’ official narratives about Qiu Jin, as a way to question the role that language and storytelling play in the construction of history.”
Congratulations to Tsang on her achievement with the MacArthur Foundation!
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Congratulations to Rhiannon Giddens, who has been named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow! The annual fellowship, often referred to as the "Genius" grant, awards individuals who, in the MacArthur Foundation's words, "have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction." Details here.
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Smashed strokes hope (1971).