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4 days ago · The University of California at Berkeley's Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project suggested this working definition: "Islamophobia is a contrived fear or prejudice fomented by the existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global power structure. It is directed at a perceived or real Muslim threat through the maintenance and extension of ...
1 day ago · I focus on representative poems by Jane Hirshfield, Jorie Graham, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Layli Long Soldier, and Craig Santos Perez to trace several distinct strains of the genre: satires of climate denial; poems that haunt readers with past, present, and future species loss; and lyrics that define our obligations to other beings with whom we share ...
1 day ago · Greeks offered propitiatory libations to prevent the deceased from returning to the upper world to "haunt" those who had not given them a proper burial. The far side of the river was guarded by Cerberus, the three-headed dog defeated by Heracles (Roman Hercules). Passing beyond Cerberus, the shades of the departed entered the land of the dead ...
2 days ago · Here’s a guest post from journalist and author Leah Eichler, originally published on her Leah Eichler's Esoterica Substack. A few weeks ago, The Guardian ran a jaw-dropping feature story to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. In it, victims and perpetrators are interviewed side-by-side as they discuss how they carried on, and in these particular cases, found peace and ...
2 days ago · The which I could not love the less, So lovely was the loneliness. Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, And the tall pines that towered around. But when the Night had thrown her pall. Upon that spot, as upon all, And the mystic wind went by. Murmuring in melody, Then, ah then I would awake.
18 hours ago · Skibidi! It’s a silly word that means ... literally nothing. According to Urban Dictionary, the teen slang “is a word usually used to start a convo, specifically a convo filled with brain rot ...
3 hours ago · The 'A' in LGBTQIA stands for " asexual ." "LGBTQ" is an acronym. Over the last few decades, new letters have been added to the lineup. Each letter in LGBTQ means: L: Lesbian. G: Gay. B: Bisexual ...
