Blogs about Society
22 blogs about Society.
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anthro{dendum}
A group blog devoted to ‘doing anthropology in public’ — providing well-written relevant discussion of sociocultural anthropology that everyone will find accessible.
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Thank You! Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of you. We say fortunate, because such encounters …
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CaptainAwkward.com
Don't need to be cool to be kind.
By Jennifer Peepas. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
#1455: “Single friend scorns the coupled. How can I have her meet my soon-to-be fiance without hurting anyone’s feelings?” Howdy Captain, Thanks for your work and for cat photos. All players in this story are mid 20s. I (call me Emm, she/her) have been in a wonderful, spellbinding relationship with Ell (he/him) for about …
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Far Outliers
Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times.
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Magellan in Spain From Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, by Andrés Reséndez (HarperCollins, 2021), Kindle pp. 52-55: Columbus’s exploits loom so large in our understanding of the …
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Found Objects
Hauntological dumping ground.
By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
P for Paladin Paladin - second only to Picador as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radical, countercultural, polemical, esoteric, transgressive, avant-garde, youth culture ... a feast for the hungry young mind, portions …
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Free-Range Kids
How parents and teachers can let go and grow.
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What Happens When a Head of School Makes Recess (and beyond) Fabulous! SCORE! About a month ago, I visited the Strelitz Academy in Virginia Beach and it gave me SUCH HEART! Everyone in the elementary school is doing The Let Grow Experience, so there were paper trees …
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Grandma Williams
Exploring the modern world at 80+.
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Curiosity went down to the woods and had a surprise. The Knees needed their daily. Curiosity looked at the map and suggested this. A thin strip of woodland, apparently a ridge between two suburban areas just north of Glasgow. It turned out to be as …
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Granite and Sunlight
Disability justice in the age of austerity.
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The Hope Of Independence – Ten Years On I write a lot about how I see hope. I have poems about how hope doesn’t feel positive to me – I know its effect is positive, but it’s not a nice feeling. It hurts. …
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Growing Up Transgender
Raising our trans child.
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Puberty Blocker Ban: Invited Expert Submission I was an academic expert invited to submit expert opinion & evidence to the Autumn 2024 closed consultation on the legal and criminal ban on puberty blockers. I’m one of the experts that Wes has …
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haptalaon
Nous allons en varouv'rie!
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2024-09-02 14:14 one thing about being away from the desk for a while is it resets your habits and relationships to your habits and you see them afresh from the outside, & this prompted me to ask …
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Hermitary – hermits around the web
news, sites, and pages of interest about hermits and solitude.
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Mauro Morendi, Italian hermit, dead at 85 The famed hermit of the island of Budelli, off of Sardinia, has passed away at the ago of 85. Morendi resided on Budelli for thirty-two years, forced to leave in 2021 due to jurisdictional disputes …
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Hermitary – hermit's thatch
journal of reflections by the resident of the Hermitary.
By Robert Rodriguez. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Rumi on solitude Jalal Al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) is a complex poet. His frequent use of flamboyant, often sensual, metaphor to express mystical thought can both confound and illuminate. But Rumi’s Sufism denominates his spirituality as being derived ultimately …
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Huck
Celebrates independence, seeking out the artists, activists and creative pioneers who are challenging mainstream culture.
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A glimpse of life for women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule ‘NO WOMAN’S LAND’ has been awarded the prestigious 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award and will be exhibited at the Réfectoire des Cordelieres in Paris this autumn. A few months ago, photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and researcher Mélissa …
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it's her factory
philosophy, pop music, sound studies, feminism.
By Robin James. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
LAST SPLASH as the ür-text of 90s modern rock Though the standard narrative of 90s alternative hinges on the explosive success of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Gen Z pop star Olivia Rodrigo is known for having a different take: as she told the …
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Jain Family Institute - News
Our mission is to address pressing social problems by identifying and building high-impact interventions that translate to real world progress.
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Phenomenal World partners with Chartbook China We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Qing Wang and Adam Tooze to publish articles from Phenomenal World in translation as a new column on Chartbook’s Chinese edition. First up is Andrew Elrod’s essay on Bidenomics …
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Pants On Fire
The questionable activities of William J. Denby and his band of grifters in the city of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
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Announcing an Announcement Quislings If you, like me, are chronically online, then you may have already come across the word "quisling" recently and know its etymology. For those who are unfamiliar, a very brief history: Vidkun Quisling was …
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PostSecret
You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project.
By Frank Warren. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Sunday Secrets The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
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San Francisco Senior Beat
Smashing aging stereotypes through storytelling.
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Retirement sends Vonn Scott Bair full speed into long days as actor, playwright and game developer “Do what you want, and you will never work a day in your life.” That old adage, intones 66-year-old Vonn Scott Bair, “is a myth, a lie, a LIE.” He’s been doing what he wants …
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Shapers of the 80s
British youth culture at its finest.
By David Johnson. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
2024 ➤ Andy Polaris reminds us of Quincy Jones’s legacy as a titan of 20th-century showbiz ❚ The cross-cultural pioneer Quincy Jones died this week aged 91 in Los Angeles. In tribute, we republish Andy Polaris’s appreciation of his genius when he brought a huge orchestra to London’s O2 arena on …
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THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture.
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From Machiavelli’s Study to Joe Rogan’s Studio The unlikely connection between podcast studios, Renaissance libraries and man-caves.
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UK Free Parties and Free Festivals 1988-1994
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A Short Film Review: Free Party: A Folk History A disclaimer first: we were involved in a little background work (figuring out e.g. dates of parties) for this documentary, so what you are about to read is a little biased. I had been looking …