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In this Re-Enchantment podcast episode, “Afrofuturism, Paradise(s), and Who's Really 'Human?'“ (20 January 2021), Taj Smith sits down with host Daniel Lev Shkolnik and discusses the epic complexities of the science fiction genre.
By H. Colleen Sinclair, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Mississippi State University. Republished with permission under Creative Commons license (CC BY-ND 4.0) via TheConversation.com
Perspectives and quotes on love from some of history’s great cultural thinkers. Includes Emma Goldman, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou, Grace Lee Boggs, Anais Nin, and Leonard Cohen. (Made for Valentine’s Day 2021)
Author, researcher and professor Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (UCLA) reads from ‘Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart and Activity for Transformative Social Research’ (Routledge, 2020), which addresses questions in modern ethnography and applied principles of mindfulness.
A curated selection of outstanding multimedia human documentary projects from around the web. Featuring works in film, journalism, and photography genres
Arundhati Roy discusses the impact of the pandemic on India and the wider global community in her April 2020 essay ‘The Pandemic is a Portal.’ Also in conversation with Imani Perry, hosted by Haymarket Books.
Fang Fang, a Wuhan-based author, kept a diary of the 72-day lockdown from January to March 2020. Also: links to other first-person accounts of the first local lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Force Outside Myself: Citizens Over 60 Speak is a project published by McSweeney’s to elevate the first-person voices of people over 60 during the 2020 pandemic.
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