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The public money has dried up, in other words, but so has a whole lot of the private money. You might not have noticed the ramifications quite yet, but you will. It’s in the increasingly ardent pleas from your local NPR station, of course, but it’s also just absence: the film festival or day camp or curated exhibition or concert series that just... See more

Anne Helen Petersen • No Really, How Do We Fund the Art We Care About Right Now?

While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet

Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Zohranomics is an effective form of antifascist economic policy. The crisis of economic security that comes with basic questions of dignity & identity is being used by the far right. An agenda laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people is the way out. @JohnCassidy @NewYorker https://t.co/jCCCKgvCnO

Isabella M Weber

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Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time

Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism

If you think about it, this work of caring for our children as nannies, or our aging parents as homecare workers, is some of the most profound and important work in our lives. We call it the work that makes everything else possible, because it makes it possible for all of us to go out and do what we do every day, knowing that some of the most... See more

Krista Tippett • Ai-jen Poo — This Is Our (Caring) Revolution | The On Being Project

The finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on encouraging corporations to pursue profit at the expense of societal welfare.

Wendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley

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The funding cuts at Columbia are stoking a civil war among the faculty. On one side: scientists who are losing their grants and just want to do their research. On the other: scholar-activists in the humanities who have little grant money to lose and support the protests.

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