


10h“We’re realizing more and more that whatever benefits that we get, there’s always a ‘but’ to it... So, yes, we had a black president, but now we have a racist white president. We’re not living in a post-racial society. We just elected a black president. That’s all we did.”
↩︎ The New Republic
Iranian postage stamps come to life in a video based on Sara Jamshidi's Project M, which uses the stamps to tell a cultural and political history of Iran.

12hAntiabortion groups, for example, used the technology to track women who entered waiting rooms of abortion clinics in more than a half dozen cities... and push ads touting alternatives to abortion.
↩︎ The Los Angeles Times


17hWhenever I have some time to myself, I panic. Unstructured time—especially spent alone—is phenomenally rare in my life and I feel an overwhelming obligation to make good use of it. I should get some laundry done. Meal prep. Ask each item in my dresser if it brings me joy.
↩︎ Man Repeller

As we continue to think about appropriation, here's Chicano チカーノ, a short documentary from 2016 about how Chicano culture has been embraced in Japan—less for gang style than family values.
For a more recent take, see Walter Thompson-Hernández in the New York Times, "How My Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan."

1dThere has always been a division between black performers and the fruit of their creativity.
↩︎ waypoint