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Columbia is unhousing students of color after suspending them:

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Natalia Chamova

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from normal.nyc

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I have known about Victoria Santa Cruz's work about as far back as secondary school but this is truly the most thorough and comprehensive article I've read on her work that does a great job of situating her in a broader, cross-cultural context; or in other words the "why" her work matters beyond borders.

Some powerful quotes that struck me:

"In a 2007 interview, Santa Cruz described how as a little girl, she had been playing with a group of friends when a new girl with blond hair joined them and stated that if Santa Cruz remained, she would leave. Her friends promptly told Santa Cruz to leave, which to her, exemplified who held power and who had the right to wield that power."

The author does a great job building context with this line:

"In the 1960s and 1970s, Black activists in the United States, like Santa Cruz in Peru and Paris, redefined and recreated what it meant to be Black. Black with a capital 'B' is about self-naming, self-defining, and self-determining, which can be seen in the work of Santa Cruz. It is, at times, biographical, exhibiting the arduous process she has endured to form an identity that isn’t controlled or concerned with outdated stereotypes and instead honors a rich heritage inherited and a [sense of self] not founded in shame."

Victoria Santa Cruz is originally from Perú, not the Caribbean, but as I touched on in a previous post, sharing this work is a part of a broader personal initiative to expand the narrative when talking about Latin America and the Caribbean and its diáspora.

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Resource Wishlist: Orientalism by Edward Said

Originally thought to be the East Indies, Said's work is a great basis for understanding a lot of the orientalist stereotypes that later on came to shape the so-called 'West Indies' or Caribbean (named so after the Spanish name for the indigenous people, Carib, meaning 'cannibal.')

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found this beautiful bookshop in Brasov

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reading date<3

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Aniye Records autumn/winter 2024

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"ok but where would Israeli Jewish ppl go" Palestinians have already created a plan for unity, YOU'RE just horny for this idea of brown "savages" getting revenge. White people did this with indigenous peoples, with freed enslaved people, with apartheid SA...also, if your main concern is the settlers/oppressors while the oppressed people can't even recover their dead to count them... (Insert something that'll have me put on a list)

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Simpkin at the Tailor’s Bedside, c.1902 by Helen Beatrix Potter (English, 1866–1943)

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Gold pendant, Mixtec, 1100 - 1500 AD

from The LA County Museum of Art

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Hunter Waldera aka Snacktoast (American, based Santa Clarita, CA, USA) - Through the Window, 2023, Paintings: Digital Art

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jamie song

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Different book covers with cats Books written by Japanese authors

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Absolutely huge hand hooked wool rug of the unicorn tapestry, for $20 at the thrift store. Couldn’t leave it there. Don’t have space for it tho