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Gyunghee Park 🇵🇸
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professional cat lady, sociologist, writer, watercolor painter
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Has anyone written a book about race, gender and sexuality during colonialism like Anne McClintock since Imperial Leather?
March 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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priyamvadagopal.bsky.social
Prof Rashid Khalidi in fine form pointing out the long history of where Columbia has now arrived. And its where we all are. 'Columbia has long been run more like the vast, wealthy business and real estate empire that it is, than as an educational institution.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you need the approval of a boss or an authority figure; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so, to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralise and finally kill a passionate intellectual life, it is these considerations, internalised and so to speak in the driver's seat.
March 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Illustration of a woman in blue dress and white apron saying: Remember, child: keep your mask on, don't bring your phone, only use water to flush someone's eyes, no pictures, bloc in and out inconspicuously and away from cameras, and never talk to the cops. Illustration of a person dressed in black head to toe relying: yes, mom.
March 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Everybody needs to boycott Columbia like it doesn't exist
March 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Tweet from @joey_underwood_ Text reads: fingers crossed 🤞 Quoted image shows side-by-side of Donald Trump at Oval Office desk with child under it and similar picture of JFK in same office with his son under the desk. Caption reads: history repeats itself
February 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm.

“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
A white square with black text reading, “I remember in a recent interview you spoke about your support of the trans community, because you said: "I see that transgender youngsters are the ones who are helping to take planet Earth into the galaxy because we're going to run into other life forms that our gender does not matter." Can you speak about that a bit? I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down —I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.” A white square with black text reading, “And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you— or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you-you can tell them, "This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way." A white square with black text reading, “But when we go into the galaxy, a life-form may say, "Who are you?" Well, there's no point in talking to another life-form and [saying] "I'm a boy or a girl," because it may have no meaning. That may mean nothing to them. So what you're going to say is, "I am a life form from the third planet, from the yellow sun," therefore giving yourself an identity. You don't have an identity because you say, "I'm a boy, I'm a girl, I'm a Jew or Gentile, I'm a Catholic or Baptist." That doesn't mean anything once you get beyond the prejudices of Earth. So yeah, I think the transgender students are really brave because they're taking a lot of flack for just wanting to be themselves and to have the right to have their own name. I think that's incredibly brave, and I think that they're absolutely right to want to do that. To want to own themselves.”
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Another one done...
Watercolor portrait of a black dog
November 30, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Works in progress...
4 unfinished watercolor paintings of pets. 3 are cats, 1 is a dog
November 26, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks or people look at reality, then you can change it. - James Baldwin
November 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
Illustration featuring all the women of the Mini Mná series. #art #blueskyart #speirgorm
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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Free free Palestine
November 20, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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New work in progress
Watercolor painting of a black and white kitty
November 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Another work in progress
Watercolor painting of a cat eating Temptations snack
November 11, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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wip...
Unfinished watercolor portrait of Nina Simone and James Baldwin laughing together
June 4, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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self.agency
man it would be nice if we were to see a global repudiation of neofascism
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jun 4
Indian voters appeared to deliver an unexpected repudiation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership as early vote tallies on Tuesday showed tepid support for his Hindu nationalist party, piercing the air of invincibility around the most dominant Indian politician in decades.
India’s early election results point to rebuke for Modi and his party
The results appear to mark a rare setback for a politician who has never failed to secure a majority in state or national elections over a 23-year political career.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2024 at 12:46 PM