#decolonizing uni

[jeannine-oh-no]

New stats post!

🦇25 y o woman, finnish

🦇 applying for PhD (in literature) september 2024

🦇 graduated, masters degree (literature) on july 23

🦇 learning norwegian (i should pick up a book in norwegian and attempt to read it) my lovely partner is norwegian and i want to speak his language, so far i guess i'm "survives basic conversation if talked to slowly"

🦇 learning korean (writing system so far)

🦇 likes reading and studying (for fun)

🦇other hobbies: being in nature, going to metal/punk/goth events, being tired at home

🦇 trying to find a "normal" job so i can then study in peace without money stress

Distant future studt plans:

🦇 languages i want to learn: ukrainian, old norse, church slavic, polish, german (revisiting), spanish

🦇 fields of study i'm interested in: decolonial study, literature, art history, history (medieval, iron age, non-european/western) feminism, posthumanism, philosphy, violence studies (basically "why are some people violent/do crimes and how it can be prevented")

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[young-royals-confessions]

Responses to my job ask!

Thanks to all who wrote in, and thank you to the anon who suggested doing this—I found it so interesting to read the responses!

Occupations of Young Royals Confessions readers:

I'm an esthetician

I'm a videogame localization tester 😊

I am a teacher at a private school, and the history class I teach focuses primarily on revolutions and decolonization movements around the world. Working at a private school (but not being the same social class as most of my students) gives me a lot insights into the frightening soft power world of Hillerska.

I work in higher ed communications.

I used to be a civil servant, but got fed up with politics (and my bosses) and quitted. Now I currently don't work anywhere - keep my household, take care of my family and of myself.

I'm disabled. Was a teacher before.

I‘m a Marketing Manager :)

I am a teacher, I teach English at a secondary school in Europe.

I’m a graphic designer

Social worker :)

I have an engineer degree but now I work in the social field as a project manager.

Marketing manager by day, fic writer by night 🦸🏼‍♀️

I'm a train planner (shout out I've you've never heard of it before) and a freelance interpreter.

I’m an accounts administrator 📊

I'm an analytical chemist

Stay at home parent! 👶🏻

I work in a public university, writing grant applications and funding proposals, to persuade philanthropic organisations and individuals to fund our research and scholarships.

Casual retail worker, also meant to be a student but not currently at school lol

I’m a small business owner, selling handmade crafts and illustrations ☺️

I’m working as a Laboratory manager in a Biotech Company but I’m a pro in doing all things yr instead

I’m currently a full time student at uni but in my free time I help kids/teens with their homework

I’m a preschool teacher, work with kids aged 1-3. Sadly can’t read fanfic under the desk.

I work in a municipality where I help politicians and officials (no clue if that's the correct translation) with everything they need to keep the town and people happy. It's really interesting to sit behind the scenes and watch big decisions being made.

I'm a History of Latin America professor in an university and I'm also a second time PhD student. I also give surprise tests to my students to deal with my Young Royals feelings lmao

#jobs of yrc #yr fandom

[dude-iloveu]

I'm trying to limit my online time here since I've only got approximately 1 month left to finish my project.

But before that, a parent of mine asked if I was willing to help make content and post about more political aspects of Malaysia (in video form) and while I agreed, I wanted to be more in the know instead of blindly accepting whatever input they gave me.

Especially since I know in some way or form, my view of this country and politics are not the same as them, despite me not really having much knowledge on what I'd line myself with.

So I made a list of books about history recommended by people online, that I could read up whenever I get to it (perhaps after viva voce) :

Farish A. Noor - What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You (The Annexe Lectures, Vol. 1)

Syed Hussein al-Attas - Myth of the Lazy Native

Ahmad Abu Talib - Malay-Muslims, Islam and the Rising Sun, 1941-1945

Syed Husin Ali - The Malays: Their Problems and Future

Tan Tai Yong - Creating “Greater Malaysia” – Decolonization and the Politics of Merger

Things published by Gerakbudaya are worth checking out

the list is sorted by ones i'm most intrigued in reading. based on other people's review. This is not a book recommendation list because I haven't read any. I'm just collecting this for later.

Idk if my uni library has these stuff mentioned. I've seen a column (?) where they put up recommended historical books / autobiographies tho. I'll go take a look whenever. Also, I'm no social science student, and I'm not a reader or a history or politics buff, or anything. So idk why I should be making content about political points if I have no prior knowledge to it.

#long post #to read #will i be able to finish reading all of them? perhaps. but not in the near future. it'll probably take a long time #but the time will pass anyway #i hate politics i hate politics i hate politics #so i must seek it in order for me to give me more ammunition to hate it even more #Later maybe I'll look for interesting books on microbiology. Or bats. Microbiome of bats. Bat immunology #or mycology if I can find an interesting read on it #i want to read more fiction but I am lazy. Maybe I will someday. But maybe not #the more i know the less i know

[kindafooey]

I pitched an absolutely kickass idea related to the decolonization of science for a uni group project and the first comment I got just straight up referred to Native American tribes with a slur

I hate everything about this faculty so much please just end my suffering I'm done I am so fucking done

#HOW THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS STUDYING IN A UNIVERSITY. HOW IN THE EVERLIVING FUCK ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO BE QUALIFIED EDUCATORS ONE DAY #I HATE THIS SO MUCH THE FACULTY JUST LETS LITERALLY ANYONE ENROLL. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK

[takiisieju]

It's honestly such a pity I can't (mentally) translate my visual researches because I am proud of them and they could be quite interesting for the artblr.

My favorite one is about concept art as illustration. But the other two are superhero costume evolution and evolution and types of health in videogames. Visual researches are both the most difficult thing in uni and the only ones that actually give knowledge.

Oh, I also made one about colonial and decolonial practises in the Oriental Museum of Moscow. Decolonization of museums was my favorite subject this year. So. Much. New. Knowledge. And stuff to think about. I really recommend researching that topic on your own.

Also, if you ever made visual researches, reblog to brag (maybe even attach a link)

#artblr #visual research #history of art

[sunkissed-zegras]

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[daltonesque]

ty so much for the tag @exoticshit <3

nickname: nini

height: 166 cm (metric because I’m europe gang)

last thing I googled: decolonization of fashion (very specific i know, i’m working on a thesis)

song stuck in my head: mr. insanity - dpr ian

# of followers: 5 (on this side blog, it’s new 😌)

dream job: if I get it my way I’m working with something history and/or fashion related, or teaching

wearing: flared jeans, oversized shirt and a turtleneck

hours of sleep: 4-6, depends but I do have a shit sleep schedule

movie/book that summarizes you: dead poets society (1989) & I’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson

fav song: run by bts (hyyh era for life)

aesthetic: uni student casual (winter wardrobe) and 90s vintage streetwear, if I had to describe it as something

fave author: anne carson, my beloved

random fact: i have a kodama tattoo on my arm

tags: everyone who wants to, i don’t have that many mutuals on this blog

#about me #daltonesque

[igbobinna]

I've written a couple of poems and have always been an aficionado of the Art. Creating the cover art for a brother's first full length poem collection is something I've always looked forward to and I'm glad with the way things turned out. °°° Uche Ogbuji is a Calabar-born poet and spoken word artist, now living in Colorado. He went to Uni at Nsukka, and was steeped in the ambient feel from Arts inspired by traditional Ùrì crafts, and inspired by the Nsukka School of the Line. In his own words, being half Igbo and half Umon (from Cross River), Nsibidi was originally written by the Ejagham themselves and also ancestral mysteries before his eyes, including many of the mysteries inspire him to write. "Ńchéfù is Igbo for forgetting, misplacement. These are poems of a child born in the age of decolonization, and specifically in the very aftermath of the sort of destructive civil war colonial exploitation made inevitable. These are poems of a child who was raised through a whirlwind of global travel, led by his parents in search of a future for their family. The poet eventually came to realize he must first forgive himself his muddled identity before the great rivers of his bloodline will forgive him his estrangement." ~ Uche Ogbuji This is his first full-length book of poems, Ńchéfù Road which will be coming out this summer. Follow up @blackspringpressgroup for more update on the official publishing date. #igbo #igbobinnaeze #mmanka #poem #art #uli #nsibidi (at Nsukka) https://www.instagram.com/p/CefItNpIRhR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#igbo #igbobinnaeze #mmanka #poem #art #uli #nsibidi

[ruidositasestamosmasbonitas]

Talking about Speaking Spanish

Born in Northridge and raised in the San Fernando Valley, CA, currently 20 years old:

My first language is Spanish; I spent all four years of high school in native Spanish classes, and going to college I almost immediately declared my Spanish major. I didn't really realize until I was in college that the way people expect me to speak Spanish is colonized as hell. When I'm at home and I speak it, I'm comfortable in it, knowing that even if I say things in half-Spanish and half-English, that I'll still be understood, and that what I'm saying is important. Going to college and now going onto my third year of my Spanish major, I'm learning that these professors don't care about my ideas or concepts or what I have to say if it isn't in the formal, grammatically correct Spanish. I didn't grow up speaking that kind of Spanish, and even all 4 years of high school, what mattered was what I had to say in that Spanish. I know how to write in Spanish, I’ve been writing papers in my first language for six years now. I don’t choose the “right” word to describe what I mean, and that discredits everything I have to say? Why does my Spanish have to conform to your eurocentric standards? What is the Spanish major supposed to do for these brown students if you never had any intention of listening to them?

#speaking spanish #spanglish #first gen #latinas #latinx representation #latinx narratives #chicana #higher education #decolonizing education #decolonizing uni

[spaaacevodka]

just saw the Saddest video about someone's experience of racism at my uni, i would post it here but i don't wanna doxx myself

im just so fucking angry at how the uni handled it all, they told him not to report the incident to the police bc they would handle it with their absolutely useless internal investigations & when he eventually did the police literally told him that the uni regularly discouraged students from reporting so it wouldn't show up in their records

like how bad is it when the police are more honest and helpful than your own fucking university

the uni literally blamed this guy and tried to force him to apologize for being the victim of a hate crime, not to mention making him pay for the damages done by the perpetrators. i have no words

and it's just such a grim reminder of how often this stuff happens at my uni at least, probs lots of others. this guy had to wait until after he graduated before he could speak up (there can b huge repercussions for speaking publicly about unconcluded investigations, which is insane bc ive never known anyone get justice or even support from these investigations)

like students will b going through shit the entire duration of their degree, and they're silenced before they even have the chance to look for help

sorry for the rant im just so angry

#like im in our decolonizing campaign & working w the race equality charter and yet still i feel powerless #can u imagine how ur average student of colour feels when they dont even have access to those channels??? #we're gonna send an open letter to the uni demanding some form of justice & hopefully a change to their handling of racism #but this isnt the first time this has been attempted & i dont think it'll b the last #any of y'all considering going to a college: look into how it handles discrimination cases first!!! #spaaacevodka speaks

[trzee]

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#i'm bored so i decided to talk a little about myself #since all that i do here is cry over how much i miss george #hello i'm zee!!! #i'm 21 years old (about to turn 22 in 2 months) #yes i'm a pisces ehehe #i'm a literature/linguistics major #i've already defended my thesis :]]] #i only have 1 semester left in uni until i graduate !!! #i also live in brazil #so if u see me making any grammar mistakes #that's decolonization babe

[noxwithoutstars]

Magnamundic

Magnamundic is a xenogender related to the vastness of outer space, alternate and parallel universes. It feels encompassing, being related to whole worlds, and powerful, infused with the energy from movements of celestial bodies and the expanding universe.

It can be KEIN and SPAN if one so wishes, and be any other in-nature not specified.

Pronouns can include:

world/world/worlds/worlds/worldself

uni/universe/universes/universes/universeself

cel/celest/celestial/celestials/celestialself

For anon!

DNI: ableist, racist, bigot, truscum, transmed, TERF, anti-mogai/neopronouns/xenogender, anti-mspec gay/lesbian/etc., anti-endo, queerphobe, REG, gatekeeper, anti-decolonization, anti-abortion, prolife, anti-anti, NSFW/kink/BDSM

#Magnamundic #lgbtqia+ #mogai haven #mogai coining #coined by me #nox's terms #new term #new flag #new gender #nox's hoard #nox's flags #worldself #universeself #celestialself

[postmodernbeing]

Shingeki no Kyojin headcanons: 104th training corps (College AU)

Hello, Postmodernbeing here. This time I wanted to write about things that I actually know, since I’m a college student and I’m studing History and Social Sciences I found myself wondering about what would the 104th training corps focus their studies on if all of them had chosen humanities as their career. I hope you find this funny and at least a bit accurate.

IMPORTANT:  I do not own Shingeki no Kyojin, only these HCs are my own. // Might contain a few spoilers from the manga. // English is not my first language and I study uni at Latin America, so scientifical terms/words/concepts may vary. Anyhow, I thank you for reading and for your patience.

Eren Jaeger

He’s passionate about Military History, not to be confused with history of army. Eren’s rather focused in strategies, weapons and semiotics involved in military speech.

First started with books about great wars in modern era. The use of certain weapons took him by surprise due the technological development.

Then he took classes about discourse analysis, semiotics and such, and felt inspired by the discourse reflected in emblems, uniforms, flags, etc.

Eren doesn’t really have a preference between occidental or oriental, North or South, Modern or Ancient settings. He would simply devour all the books that deal with military strategy and warlike conflicts. Although he has more experience and information about great wars in modern era.

He’s fascinated with the inexhaustible human desire of freedom and the extent that it can reach. This fascination might not be very healthy, he concludes.

Also, finds a cruel beauty in violence when showed in freedom and ideals are protected over one’s own life. But he won’t tell his classmates or professors. He knows is a controversial opinion for he’s still aware the implications of massive conflicts and the abuse of power.

One thing led to another, Eren is now taking classes and reading about philosophy in war and anthropological perspectives about violence through time.

He’s so into social movements besides his main interest in college: “No one’s really free until all humanity is”, that’s his life motto pretty much.

Due his readings and researches he decided it was important to develop a political stance about the world’s problems. Eren strongly believes all lives worth the same, but systems and nations had imposed over others and vulnerated other human's lives.

Yes, Eren is anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.

Mikasa Ackerman

Asian Studies Major / History Minor.

She thinks by studying these degrees, she pays honor to her heritage. Specially to her mother. Her family is the proudest for Mikasa is also the best student in her whole generation.

Mikasa received a scholarship thanks to Azumabito family, who are co-founders of an academic institution dedicated to Asian historical and cultural research. She might as well start working when she graduates.

Although she’s passionate about Japan’s history, she has written a few articles and essays about Asian Studies themselves and the importance of preserving but also divulging by means of art and sciences.

In her essays and research work, she likes to employ tools from many disciplines since she strongly believes all humanities and social sciences serve the very same purpose at scrutinize the social reality all the same. Might as well use demographics, ethnology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, archeology, and so on. For it proves to bring light into questions that history by itself could answer unsatisfactorily (in Mikasa’s opinion).

Even her professors wonder how she manages to organize that much information and pull it off successfully. She might as well be more brilliant than a few PhD’s students.

Armin Arlert

Prehistoric studies / Archeology

He’s so into the studies about the prehistoric humans and routes of migration.

Passionate about the ocean and natural wonders since kid, Armin believed his career would be environmentalist or geoscience related.

That was the agreement he had with his grandad since middleschool, until he read Paul Rivet’s “The Origins of the American Man” book and captured him thoroughly. The way the book explained logically the diverse theories about global migration and enlisted the challenges of modern archeology -for there are numerous mysteries- simply devoured his conscience.

He knew from the books he’d read that most evidence of the first settlements are deep under dirt or far away in the ocean whose level has risen over the centuries leaving primitive camps – and answers – unreachable. 

That’s the reason he is so eager to study and give his best to contribute both archeology and history disciplines. Also, he’ll forever love the ocean and nature, just leave him do all the fieldwork, please.

Jean Kirstein

History of industry / Industrial heritage / Historical materialism

Jean first started interested in capitalist industries and production development in first world countries. Kind of rejected other visions and explanations since he’d read about positivism studies.

His interest in such matters started when he was a just boy. He often found himself wondering how things were made and that question captured him ever since. As he grew up, he realized that machines and industrial processes were highly involved in the most mundane objects creation.

Nonetheless, he learnt that not always the best machinery was used, nor the best work conditions were available for mass production. From that moment he’d started to read about the First Industrial Revolution and his mind just took off with questions. Invariably, he learned about labour struggle and the transforming power due workforce.

Between his readings and university classes, he’d knew more about labour movements, unions. And in the theoretical aspect, he'd learned about historical materialism analysis.

One could say that Jean possesses a humanistic vision of the implications in mass production under capitalist system along history and nowadays.

Marco Bodt

Royalty's history / Medieval Studies 

I wanted to keep his canonical fascination to royalty and the best way to do that was including Medieval Studies.

Marco would study since the fall of Roman Empire until the latest gossip of royal families all across Europe.

Might get a bit of Eurocentric with his essays but in real life discussions he’s always open to debates about decolonization. He has even read Frantz Fanon books and possesses a critical thinking about colonial countries and their relations with the so named third world.

Nevertheless, Marco finds a strange beauty in the lives of monarchs and he’s interested in study from their education, hobbies, strategies, relationships, everything.

I’d say that his favorite historical period is probably the establishment of the descendants of the barbarian peoples in the new kingdoms such as the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Vandals, Huns, Saxons, Angles and Jutes (holy shit, they're a lot).

Because this would transcend as the beginning of his favorite matter of analysis.

Sasha Braus

History of gastronomy, development of cooking, antropology and archeological studies.

Sasha’s interested in the history that shows human development of food and cooking. She finds wonders when she inquires into cultural aspects from the first farming till modern artistic expressions that would involve food.

Such as gastronomy. But her attention got caught in literature’s food representation too, with its symbols and allegories, also in paintings that belong in still life movement, but also Sasha finds interest when food is used as rhetorical devices (for example: the apple in Adam and Eve’s myth).

She’s curious about primitive systems of irrigation, cultivation, food distribution, adaptation of wild species; as well as the domestication of animals, the diversification of the diet and its link with sedentary life, as well as the subsequent division of labor once the need for food was assured in humanity’ first cities.

Sasha’s convinced that alimentation is the pilar of civilization as we know it. For it involves cultural, artistic, economic, emotion and social aspects. Food is a microcosm of analysis of humanity.

Sasha hasn’t a favorite historical period or setting. But she definitely has a special fascination for first civilizations and their link with alimentation. Also, she likes to study the development gastronomy in occident world around different regions, social classes, and time.

Although, let’s be honest, Sasha would devour (lol, couldn’t help it) ANY book about agriculture, cattle raising, cooking or gastronomy. 

Connie Springer

Micro-history / History of everyday life.

Connie loves his hometown, has a deep respect to his family and traditions. That’s why he finds himself wondering about the most ordinary events that developed in his dear Ragako. 

The book “The Cheese and the Worms” by Carlo Ginzburg changed the way he used to understand history and capture him into meaningful discussions about what he learned was called micro-history.

His favorite quote from that book is: “As with language, culture offers to the individual a horizon of latent possibilities—a flexible and invisible cage in which he can exercise his own conditional liberty.”

Once deep into studying the Italian historians and their works, he decided to give it a try, and ever since he’s mesmerized with the mundane vestiges craftsmen that worked in his village left behind.

Connie’s parents are so proud of him and his achivements, but mostly because he became a passionate academic over human and simple matters, (so down to earth our big baby).

His attitude towards his essays and research works truly shows his great heart and humility. Connie is aware that academic works have no use if they are not meant to teach us about ourselves too and current times.

Empathy and hard work, that’s how one could describe the elements that integrate his recently started academic career.

Historia Reiss

Political History / Statistician

Her father’s family pressured Historia since she was a little girl into studying History just like his dad. For he’s a very famous historian that had made important researches and books about the greatest statesmen of Paradis.

She thought in numerous ways that she could sabotage her career or study any other career without her family’s consent and end with her linage of historians. But she ended up enrolling in tuition and so far, she is trying her best in her studies. Historia swears this is the right path for her.

But don’t let the appearances fool you, even thought she studies her father’s career and the very same branch of history’s discipline, she has her own critical sense and she’s so talented on her own, very meticulous with her research papers.

Definitely wants a PhD about women, power and politics. We stand a Gender Studies Queen.

Her complementary disciplines are Political Sciences. Historia also has a talent for philosophy and owns a diary with all her thoughts about them. She hopes one day she would write a book or a manifesto about an innovative methodology for research and teaching History of Politic Thinking.

Ymir 

Religion’s History / Theology

Just like Historia, Ymir was pressured into studying History. And if she’s totally honest, she still has some doubts about it. Even if she couldn’t imagine herself studying anything else.

Anyways, Ymir thought that she could build her career around topics that she enjoys. So, she finally chose theology for unusual reasons.

Her classmates had grown up in religious families or had experience studying the doctrines they practiced. But she, being an agnostic, found satisfaction in unraveling belief systems in different cultures and time periods.

Albeit she studies in Paradis’ University, she currently has the opportunity of taking an academic exchange at Marley’s University. This only made Ymir more conflicted about her future, for she wants to stay (near Historia) but she’s aware that Marley would offer her more academic opportunities for her specialization.

Nowadays she’s working in some collaborative research paper with some people from Mythological Studies from the Literature department. She’s nailing it, writing some historical studies about titans in Greek mythology and its impact in shaping neoclassical poetry. Her brains ugh, love her.

Reiner Braun

Official History / Biographies of heroes and great wars.

His mother convinced him with numerous books about great national heroes, but mostly because she knew that would mean sure job to her son. All political administration in every level requires of an official chronicler. 

When he started his college courses, Reiner felt motivated and he was actually convinced that he had the vocation. But the more he read the less sure he felt that the academic world was for him. He wondered if he made the right choice. If he did it for him or for his mother.

Stories and myths about heroes have always cheered him up. That gave him purpose and consoled him when feeling down. Or at least it was like that when younger. Reiner truly didn’t feel like himself when regretting his choices, but he couldn’t help it for he was changing in more than a way.

That’s why he decided to experiment with other disciplines and with time he would find joy in historical novels. He would analyze them just as good as a litterateur and research about historical context in the written story AND study the artwork’s context itself.

His favorites theorical books are: “Historical Text as Literary Artifact” by Hayden White and Michel de Certeau’ “The Writing of History”.·        

Heroes stories would always accompany him, just differently now.

Bertolt Hoover

History of mentalities / Les Annales

Intimate relationships, basic habits and attitudes. / Culture

Bertie has always been a much reticent and shy guy. As he grew up, he consolidated his sullen personality, but maintained a friendly attitude towards anyone who needed him. That’s why he thought that the priority in his studies was to be at the service of his classmates.

So, although he was passionate about research and was a fan of the French Les Annales current, he considered his mission to be in the Archive. As a cataloger, organizer and curator of ancient documents.

But the ways of History are always mysterious, and Doctor Magath showed him that other way of being was possible. Before Bertolt picked his specialty, he met Theo Magath, a professor who recently had finished writing a book: “The Idea of Death in Liberio’s Ghetto in Marley During its War Against Eldia (Paradis)” (long-ass titles are historians specialty btw). After Magath ended his book’ presentation, Bertolt reached him. They talked for hours and finally, he felt inspired into pursuing his true passion. Magath gifted him “The Historian’s Craft” by Marc Bloch as a way to reminding him his way.

By the time Bertolt took History of Mentalities as optional class, he already had some basic notions about Les Annales, Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff and such. 

Being the gentle giant he is, Bertolt finds joy in reading about different lifestyles in diverse cultures. He constantly wonders about the origin of social constructs and the way they shape thinking as much as identity.

This boy is a wonder, he might not be the best in oral presentations or  extracurricular activities but sure as hell he’ll graduate with honors.

Annie Leonhart

Oral history, about institutions. Particularly, police and justice system in early XXs.

Albeit she got into the same University than Bertolt and Reiner, even shared classes and hopes, Annie regularly felt disconnected from her studies. With time she realized it wasn't due her career itself but rather because of the currents that her professors had suggested her taking. Until now.

Talking with Hitch and Marlow about their doubts concerning subjects and departments it came up the topics of history and present time but also oral history. She’d never heard something like that before. So, that very same week, Annie started searching for information about that.

She ended up with more questions: is it all of this just academic journalism? Or maybe sociology? When we can talk about regular history and when it starts being present time? If she introduces interviews due oral history, then that makes it an interdisciplinary work? Which are the best systems for analyzing data? Definitely, she’ll need help from anthropology and sociology departments if she wants to keep going. 

Contrary to her initial prognostic, philosophy and history of historic writing became her new allies, and the text “Le temps présent et l'historiographie contemporaine” (Present Time and Contemporary Historiography) by Bédarida among others, provided Annie another perspective. 

Regarding her favorite topics, she wouldn’t say that she selected them freely. They were just practical preferences. For institutions own extensive archives and numerous functionaries. One way or another, she ended up tangled in judicial system and police issues.

With new tools and object for studying, one could find Annie having a blast as detective too. Even if her academic essays focus on institutions’ history and configuration, she’s also working in corruption and more. She doesn’t do it because she believes it’s the right thing, but besides, the thrill of the tea is spicy. Although she won’t admit it. 

#shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan #aot headcanons #snk headcanons #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #armin arlert #jean kirstein #marco bodt #sasha braus #connie springer #historia reiss #ymir #reiner braun #bertolt hoover #annie leonhart #modern au #college au

[atlaese]

Got the link 👀👀👀

Anyway yes I like classics and political dramas and like... "Listen little man" by Reich? I eat that shit up kskksks. That's psychology right there. I do read some fantasy novels too like I love stuff like the witcher which there are free links for the book around I just haven't started them, and I like shows like normal people but I wouldn't read it just as a book? I haven't read anything since November tbh though.

I think you can interchange it and add some classics between your books and pretend you know you're smarter, hehhe, really most are boring but some are passionate and whatnot and I like the different eras of typing, you can always learn something new that way. You can expand your knowledge, oh books like Onegin? Lovely love story.

There's a whole world of books a d everything to discover and that's always beautiful and amazing etc

aye i'm glad 👀let me know if you find your stuff!!!

ooh you're into political stuff??? ive been reading a few philosophers for uni and maybe you'd like Foucault? i wanna read his book Madness & Civilization: A history of Insanity in the Age of Reason! it's really good apparently, deals with psychology and politics haha. edit:lol just saw you said POLITICAL DRAMAS,,, yeah so these recs arent dramas but pure theory and empirical data lol, but i still rec them!!!

Another rec you might like: The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (deals with the psychology of colonization and decolonization) + Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks (biggggg rec!!!! literally i couldn't stop reading it. really, very interesting!! also found it on that site i send ya haha)

yeah i get that!! sometimes it's hard to get started on reading! i've recently started going back to the library & because a normal term is only 3 weeks it kinda pushes me to read the books i got and to get new ones when i return the old ones lol. yeah i read sally rooney's latest one and i liked it but it's very emotional driven and doesn't really have a big plot? like it's about very every day stuff which i appreciate but it sometimes fell flat for me haha, but yeah, the show is so good!!!

a mix is indeed very good :) lol, honestly yes!!! it is kinda cool to see the different eras :) really nice to see how writing has evolved too!

#arianswers #andy 🌿 #reading with ari

[badgerfrogs]

tell us about swtcu 👀

oooh okay so!! swtcu is the southern water tribe cinematic universe, aka my post-canon zukka series that i’ve been working on since like... november/december i think? it takes place from post-war to like... idk when i’m still working on it :/ but the series of events (part outline part written) thus far is that zuko works as firelord for a few years while sokka is studying at ba sing se university and they develop a romantic relationship, but ultimately zuko abolishes the monarchy and moves out of the fire nation. i’m still figuring that part out bc u can’t really just abolish a monarchy just like that without throwing ur country into civil war and i am a film student with little understanding of the nitty gritty of politics.... but i will figure it out soon enough. (and i have a fair amount of content after that written i just need to research how monarchies end without killing a bunch of people so i can finagle that into place)

it’s called swtcu bc i was originally planning on the premise being that zuko abolishes the monarchy and moves to the southern water tribe but i’m not completely sold on that rn. i feel like post-uni sokka might have a home base of sorts in the swt but would travel a lot for his post-war work, and zuko might do ambassadorial-type stuff or run a turtleduck shelter — but no matter what there will definitely be plenty of content in the south pole bc i love the southern water tribe. (there has to be duh bc katara lives there and zuko has to visit his bestie and she’ll kill sokka if he doesn’t visit her often 🙄)

i’m not planning on it being a chaptered fic atm, more of like a series of one-shots set in the same universe but with a clearly followable plot. it’s entirely self-indulgent and there are shenanigans & love letters & decolonization & ember island vacations & izumi!!! and i’ll definitely be working on it more this summer :D

a little excerpt:

“Bato and I were like that, once,” Hakoda says ruefully.

“We still are, a little bit,” Bato says, nudging his arm.

“Young love,” Kanna murmurs, looking at the two of them in the distance. “They’re not quite so young anymore, though, are they?”

“Mm, not really,” Bato muses, sipping his tea. “Who knows? Perhaps a wedding may be on the horizon.”

“Maybe even before the next midnight sun,” Hakoda agrees.

ask me about my wips!

#oh and zuko is trans in swtcu! #i wanna explore the southern water tribe's understanding of gender a little in this universe too #swtcu #ask game #dickpuncher

[katrinablogyblogblog]

A happy rainbow for the end of semester!

I started this course feeling really excited about a new routine of going back to uni, but COVID-19 definitely shook things up. Nonetheless, starting this degree has been a long-time coming and it feels great to have finally arrived! In saying this, being self-taught and at a very novice stage in my design practice, made this semester a really steep learning curve. 

This course particularly has helped me to understand how we know design today is very much grounded in the past movements and socio-political shifts in history. In moving forward I really want to sink my teeth more into aspects of historical design movements for further inspiration, I now see this as really important. I want to particularly do further research into the Swiss school and The Bauhaus as they were parts of the course I found particularly interesting and inspiring. 

Another aspect of this semester which stood out was Karen and Andy’s continual reminders to decolonize design. I really liked how they regularly critiqued the lens we viewed design through and definitely reminded me to remain engaged with critical thinking around the perspectives and assumptions I carry when analysing design and even creating my own pieces. 

This course further challenged me to be far more experimental and open to be open (and okay) with making mistakes. From this learning I want to continue to actively experiment with diverse mediums, objects, themes etc. as a part of my creative development. I learned that some of the best ideas begin with making mistakes!

I am definitely finishing this course inspired with a useful toolkit to take with me. Thank you Karen, Andy and Ben for your amazing teaching and passion. 

For now, I am definitely looking forward to time to digest all we’ve learned over the break!

Above image credit: Illustration by Crystal Zapata, 2020. Image found on: https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/rainbows-alec-doherty-crystal-zapata-kris-andrew-small-nicole-chui-philotheus-nisch-shuhua-xiong-yonk-illustration-080420