Social media, or Instagram, in particular has been the space to be for anyone starting to connect, share, or begin their new venture. One new account is creating a new type of cultural conversation. When soon to be finance graduate Aashka Piprottar noticed the importance of financial literacy and the lack of financial literacy in…
Many of us didn’t know what to expect when Yayoi Kusama‘s exhibits started popping up in museums all over the country in 2016, catching the attention of the art world and non-museum goers alike. Thanks to the impact of social media, the unusually interactive works of art gained popularity quickly. Surreal would be too simple…
Dream Song 14, a poem by John Berryman. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no Inner Resources.’ I conclude…
Something is hiding behind the plunging prices and seemingly grim future of the fossil fuel industry. The insurance industry’s insidious support of Big Oil shows no signs of stopping in the face of the dangers of climate change. Three years ago, Native American tribes, environmentalists, and other activists protested the construction of the Dakota Access…
In the midst of the overwhelming societal and economic changes the world has undergone during pandemic times, one consequence is causing a somewhat invisible backwards force. The Atlantic argues that pandemics affect men and women differently-that of all of the consequences of this new way of life, the economic effect will hit women the hardest.…
July 24, 2014. The last post on One Voice until now. On May 28, 2019, we are facing a reevaluation. In this age of saturated media, how do we create voice? Who do we want to be when we are constantly creating versions of ourselves on infinite platforms? Mines of links on links on links…
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This week FPI talked to Sarah Birke, Middle East and North Africa correspondent for The Economist, a British weekly with semi-anonymous journalists (it has no bylines). We think it’s high time you meet the brains behind some of the magazine’s best pieces on the region. Sarah is currently based in Cairo but…
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/watch-this-amazing-conversation-between-bell-hooks-and-melissa-harris-perry bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry’s thoughts on media representation of black women is one of the most interesting aspects of the segment to me, as well as hooks’ observations about Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings (at approximately 37:00) but the entire interview is a must-watch. On Beasts of the Southern Wild: “No, the abuse…
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Today marks the 65th year of International Human Rights Day, which celebrates the establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A brief from Human Rights Watch highlights the good and bad current human rights news, such as the introduction of a Congressional bill for a national paid family leave insurance program in the U.S.…
Why Leymah Gbowee, women’s rights activist and peace builder does what she does: “[When people ask me] ‘what is your drive?’ I say anger. Anger and pain propels me into action; results and joy keeps me running.” On adopting a former sex worker: “You know how those old ladies always say ‘Jesus will give you…
Wendy Davis, the new liberal “folk hero“, officially announced her run for governor of Texas on Thursday, and both Democrats and Republicans are quick to point out that her underdog fight will be a tough one, not least because of the other labels she’ll have to fight off in order to establish her own. Judith…
Collection of Syria analysis on Al Jazeera, thanks to Azmat Khan.
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