Friday, November 22, 2013

Resources for November 22, 2013

Emily Badger for The Atlantic: "The Next Housing Crash: When the Boomers downsize, what will happen to the suburbs?"

Aisha Harris for Slate shares a satirical video: "If Gravity Was Set in IKEA, It Would Look Like This."

Miriam Krule for Slate: "The Hunger Names"

In case you are not sure what is wrong with police profiling of people who have not committed any crimes or are doing nothing wrong, Julie K. Brown for the Miami Herald: "In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act"

Christopher Lydon Interviews for Radio Open Source:

Biographer Stephen Kinzer: Are the Dulles Brothers finally out of power?

Poet C. D. Wright in Triumph: One With Others


Jane Stadler for Screening the Past: "Affectless Empathy, Embodied Imagination and The Killer Inside Me."

Michel Gondry's new animated film featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky is premiering in theaters this weekend:






Sarah Marie at True African Original posts Egyptian street art protesting sexual terror against women protestors: "Street Graffiti in Cairo: 'Nefertiti' by El Zeft

Shadowboxing posts some photographs of The Women of Asgarda in the Carpathian Mountains (Ukraine) who supposedly banded together to develop as warriors for self-defense against sexual trafficking The Women of Asgarda. Reports about The Women of Asgarda first started surfacing in 2009, but most of them just assumed this was a radical feminist movement. Instead, as Serena N. Kutchinsky reports for Prospect, they are a maternalist nationalist group and reject feminism: "Asgarda: The secrets of Ukraine’s warrior women". Still, as Laura prompted me, even as this nationalist perspective troubles me, I have to admit they seem to be much better than Hollywood's notion of empowered amazons in:






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