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A photograph of a Japanese American boy and girl at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Caption: "Children posing in front of barracks and Heart Mountain, May 12-1944" 🗃 #skystorians #OTD

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For too long in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander voices have been toned down, quiet or missing. We're changing that. This AANHPI Heritage Month — and every month — we're raising our voices to secure equality for our communities: hrc.im/aanhpi

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17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia. The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases. We exist. We don’t need a cure. #IDAHOBIT

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I loved this. The cast (the four daughters) of the 1993 film THE JOY LUCK CLUB reunite for an interview with NBC’s The Today Show. Amy Tan’s 1989 novel & Wayne Wang’s film are remarkable. This is was done for AANHPI Heritage Month but it transcends that. youtu.be/phvU9c_Q-kI?...

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Late to this. This is beautiful & brilliant. A set of interviews with writers about their favorite Jane Austen novels. The one with Colm Tóibín about PERSUASION is particularly moving. This year marks the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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Rather than praise a student for having the bravery to call out a genocide NYU is withholding their diploma until they apologize and issue a retraction

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This is just devastating. 🧵⬇️ www.latimes.com/california/s...

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

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One of the great examples of the importance of close looking, historical inquiry, and the usefulness of reproductions is the set of rooms that make up the Cast Courts at the V&A Museum in London. #WorldArtDay

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It is #WorldArtDay today. It is is a good day as any to boost my essays on nearly 140 years of American paintings & my essay on a Chola bronze. All written and published in the 2010s for @smarthistory.bsky.social. Their new essays are excellent. Take a look. smarthistory.org/author/faris...

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On #WorldArtDay from a recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art in NY. As a formally trained art historian I try to focus on what this profession means, especially now, and with my own ethnic & racial background. How do we convey the importance of cultural artifacts to our evolving human condition?

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Jean Marsh was brilliant in so many things, but of course everyone will remember her as Rose Buck (rightly so) in the 1971 & the 2010 UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS. Also, look again at the 1965 CLEOPATRA where she plays Octavia and steals the scene from a young Richard Burton.

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I am researching & writing on Hardy now and there are many good TV adaptations of The Mayor of Casterbridge but watch the 2003 one with Ciarán Hinds with Jean Marsh as the Furmity Woman. She is so sinister & unsettling you won’t be able to forget her. The mythic incarnation of pastoral evil. RIP.

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Spotted by @thianun.bsky.social in the UC Boulder library

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I knew it was coming but this news is still a gut punch. There is no way to tell the history of Black life in this country in an ideologically correct way per Trump, because Trump wants to erase Black history (and, I fear, life). apnews.com/article/trum...

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More Ming-era paintings of fishermen. Wu Wei (1459-1508).‘Pleasures of Fishermen.’ Section of a handscroll. The presence of the active fishermen enliven the scene, while the brushstrokes are natural, vigorous, and graceful-a testament to the skill of the artist & the rapidity & prowess of his hand.

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NASA ordered to rewrite history by erasing important milestones in the space agency’s history... "a 2023 article mentioning NASA’s 1978 class of astronauts that included the first female, Black, and Asian-American astronauts, was removed from the agency’s website." gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...

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This is so chilling. I can see one of my own PhD students being picked up and “disappeared “ without any legal process, and shunted thousands of miles from home against court orders. Where is the moral backbone of @tufts? Are they going to stand up? www.middleeasteye.net/news/tufts-u...

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More Ming-era paintings of fishermen. Wu Wei (1459-1508).‘Pleasures of Fishermen.’ Section of a handscroll. The presence of the active fishermen enliven the scene, while the brushstrokes are natural, vigorous, and graceful-a testament to the skill of the artist & the rapidity & prowess of his hand.

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The Snow White Rachel Zegler controversy reminds me of Art Babbitt’s career at Disney and how the company tries to silence non-conformists. www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023... www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/how... www.threads.net/@farisa_khal... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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If you see this, quote with a powerful woman!

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Gibbon Seated on a Branch https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36009

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Today is the 20th anniversary of M.I.A.’s debut album Arular. I was a senior at Vassar when I first heard Bucky Done Gun & 10 Dollar. I choose to remember the Maya of 2005 not 2025. Her impact on South Asian pop culture endures. www.thejuggernaut.com/essential-le... www.rs500albums.com/450-401/421

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Very good piece on M.I.A. "I was there" for all of this and while her crank turn bums me out you cannot un-bang a banger, of which she has many. www.stereogum.com/2301179/mia-...

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With Severance Season 2 in the rearview mirror, the acclaimed actor Adam Scott reflects on the music—@remhq.bsky.social, Vampire Weekend, @rilokileyofficial.bsky.social, and more—that has shaped his life Read @jeremydlarson.bsky.social's 5-10-15-20 with Scott here ⬇️

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“The M.I.A. of 2005 could be mysterious in the way the M.I.A. of today can’t.” M.I.A.’s ‘Arular’ was an innovative debut album & a pivotal moment in South Asian representation. This compelling essay by Skye Butchard about the 20 yr legacy of the album is worth the read bsky.app/profile/theq...

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It seems few published writers are immune from being pirated in this process. Surprised to see some of my writing in the database, especially my reviews on the history of animation from years ago. It’s curious in terms of what gets chosen to train AI. bsky.app/profile/jona...

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Fisherman in Ming paintings by Southern Chinese artists were prevalent because of the geo-cultural realities of the region—its rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands. The brushwork of the water, the trees, the rocks, while fluent & sure, never dominates or takes away from the realism of the representation.

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The depiction of fishermen has a long history in the development of Chinese landscape painting, dating to the art of the early Tang. Depictions represent tranquility and humanity’s deep connection to Nature in a world removed from the struggle of court politics. Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman’

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Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman.’ c. 1410. Handscroll. Ink on paper. @metmuseum.org Court official & scholar-painter Wang Fu was known for his water & mountain genre landscape paintings. This gem from the Met is one of his best works, especially in the depiction of the fishermen.

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Thinking of this for St. Patrick’s Day. ☘️ Take a look at photographer Sam Wright’s photos of the Traveller community in Galway and Cork from his book from Pillar to Post. This picture is beautiful. Bobby Doherty and His Horse. The expression on the boy’s face. gostbooks.com/en-us/produc...

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Happy 10th Anniversary to Kendrick Lamar's third studio album 'To Pimp A Butterfly' originally released March 15, 2015 | Listen to the album + discover why it's one of the Best Albums of the 2010s here:

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“The wise man finds pleasure in the waters, the virtuous man finds pleasure in the hills.” Confucius. ‘Travelers in Mountains.’ Late Ming to Qing dynasty. The genre of blue-green (qinglu) landscape paintings in Chinese art evokes the worlds of past, present, and an imaginative longing for an ideal.

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Iranian editorial cartoonist Firoozeh Mozaffari laments that it has been three years since the Taliban has banned girls from secondary education classes in Afghanistan.

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I don’t want to hear a goddam thing about economic populism anymore.

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You know what strikes me? There are so many absolutely brilliant people right now who 100% deserve to undertake a funded PhD. That there are so few chances to do so is a serious disservice to our sector, in fact to the whole ecosystem of knowledge production and cultural value.

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“The wise man finds pleasure in the waters, the virtuous man finds pleasure in the hills.” Confucius. ‘Travelers in Mountains.’ Late Ming to Qing dynasty. The genre of blue-green (qinglu) landscape paintings in Chinese art evokes the worlds of past, present, and an imaginative longing for an ideal.

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Family members have been asking me about buying copies of the books I’m published in—but some of them are so expensive. Especially this one from Rowman & Littlefield: rowman.com/ISBN/9781793... The other is out in paperback. rowman.com/ISBN/9781793... Please consider ordering them for your library.

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The best soups in the Washington DC area. Accurate-Guapo’s is my favorite Mexican place. Pho & French onion seem to be the unofficial soups of DC. I would include soups from Uyghur & Afghan restaurants too. A list like this will change every autumn & winter. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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The SNL red glasses sketch. Brilliant. My favorite sketches in recent memory involve Aidy Bryant and Ego Nwodim. This Aidy one in particular. youtu.be/5VhrZNbLIaM?...

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