Racial discrimination, white privilege, and standing up to systemic inequality: Joy DeGruy, “A trip to the grocery store” | The Critical Media Project about In this video clip from World Trust’s film, Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity, educator, author, and researcher Joy Angela DeGruy tells the story of how she and her daughter were discriminated against at a grocery store and how her sister-in-law used her White privilege to intervene, take a stand against the discriminatory and unjust interaction, and point out that moment as an example of unexamined privileges and internal biases manifesting in an institutionalized, systemic inequity. She also describes how this interaction affected not just the people directly involved, but also the people who witnessed the event. discussion What is White privilege? How did Kathleen, Joy’s sister-in-law, use her White privilege in this situation? Do you think the cashier meant to be discriminatory? How did Joy react when she recognized that this discriminatory act was happening? Where do acts of racial discrimination take place? What does it mean to be an ally?
altered books Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat. This site is a chronicle of a very specific set of collaborations between the artists listed below working on the titles listed below. *loves = referred 200+ people our way loved us on August 21st, 2005 MilkandCookies loved us on August 21st, 2005 The J-Walk Blog loved us on August 22nd, 2005 In4mador! robot wisdomloved us on August 22nd, 2005 MetaFilter loved us on August, 23rd, 2005 G4 Attack of the Show loved us on August 24th, 2005 Oink! mishechkaloved us on November 19th, 2005 granolagirlloved us on November 23rd, 2005 Bifurcated Rivetsloved us on November 28th, 2005 Zaborloved us on November 28th, 2005 zloblogloved us on December 1st, 2005 Glubibulgaloved us on December 1st, 2005 jessickaloved us on December 3rd, 2005 juliepatchouliloved us on December 3rd, 2005 deze-hierloved us on December 11th, 2005
Stay in school ! Home Page | Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education We still have Cavite Photo courtesy of Mariyah Gonzales TORONTO, Canada - The property is not grand. It is a modest corner lot at the end of the street in a guarded suburb in Cavite, a province just southwest of the capital, Manila. A little fewer than three hundred square meters but it is ours. The heart of the Revolution, read the welcome sign. My parents signed the papers the year I was born, for this property and another in Las Piñas next to my aunts’ and uncles’ property. We never did end up living in Las Piñas. Up until our visit last January, Dad had not been back to Manila since 1995. Then, I learned my family is the patient kind. Ease in silence In Manila, I found most had been quick to forget the space and time we had wedged in between them. Some bonds were easy to pick up from where we’d left off. When I finally saw the plot in Cavite, I knew it was mine to keep. We should have planted fruit trees, a few mango but not the green ones.
Fifteen Writing Exercises Writing exercises are a great way to increase your writing skills and generate new ideas. They give you perspective and help you break free from old patterns and crutches. To grow as a writer, you need to sometimes write without the expectation of publication or worry about who will read your work. Pick ten people you know and write a one-sentence description for each of them. Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write a 500-word biography of your life. Write your obituary. Write a 300-word description of your bedroom. Write an interview with yourself, an acquaintance, a famous figure or a fictional character. Read a news site, a newspaper or a supermarket tabloid. Write a diary or a blog of a fictional character. Rewrite a passage from a book, a favorite or a least favorite, in a different style such as noir, gothic romance, pulp fiction or horror story. Pick an author you like though not necessarily your favorite. Try to identify your earliest childhood memory.
Your Shot: A Community’s Expression of Love “Keep up the good work Monica and don’t forget to browse others’ work to get inspired…” Several years ago, not long after I’d submitted a photo to Your Shot, I received the above comment from another member of the community. This person had no idea that I was a picture editor at National Geographic but liked my photo and wanted to pass on a helpful hint—learn from looking. “Looking at the pictures on Your Shot is a really wonderful way to see a lot of really great pictures and learn something. Let’s take a step back and assume you have never heard of Your Shot. “I started going to the discussion section and it was there that…the richness of the experience occurred. Each month we run several assignments that are led by editors and photographers who curate their favorite photos and add their own commentary to create a collaborative or crowd-sourced story. “It’s moving to see how engaged people are. “I am so very honored to be included in this collection.
Veiled Truths One day I was walking with a female friend in Tehran when she was pulled away by the police and held in one of their offices for a few hours. Her crime? She wasn’t wearing the proper hijab — the head scarf that, in some interpretations of Islam, women must wear whenever they are in the presence of men who are not close relatives. In , the government insists that all women wear it. My friend was told to ask a friend or relative to bring the proper hijab for her to wear. From last April through September, I photographed about 20 women who agreed to participate. Improper dress code, including insufficient coverage of a woman’s head, shoulders and chest in public is officially illegal and can incur arrest and fines.
Stay: The Social Contagion of Suicide and How to Preempt It by Maria Popova “We are indebted to one another and the debt is a kind of faith — a beautiful, difficult, strange faith. We believe each other into being.” If you’ve ever known someone who committed suicide, or have contemplated it yourself, or have admired a personal hero who died by his or her own hand, please oh please read this. To be sure, Hecht’s interest in the subject is far from the detached preachiness such narratives tend to exude — after two of her dear friends, both fellow writers, committed suicide in close succession, she was left devastated and desperate to make sense of this deceptively personal act, which cuts so deep into surrounding souls and scars the heart of a community. As I examine the history of how, in the West, we have understood self-killing, I also will put forward what might seem to be a contrarian position, a nonreligious argument against suicide. She traces the evolution of these attitudes: We are humanity, Kant says. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr