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
#1450: “Stimming In The Office With Nosy Coworkers” Hey there, I have ADHD and use picking at my skin/scalp as a stim (despite being medicated) and work in an office, which means lots of time sitting and staring at computer screens…ideal picking conditions. …
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Far Outliers
Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times.
By Joel. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
U.S. Navy in Wartime Honolulu From The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy’s First Carrier into Tokyo Bay, by Nathan Canestaro (Grand Central, 2024), Kindle pp. 56-57: Hawaii …
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Found Objects
Hauntological dumping ground.
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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.
By Lenore Skenazy. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
All of Me Thanks to John Stossel, here is a half hour of me getting the chance to make all the points swirling around in my head and heart: How we got so afraid for our kids. What …
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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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Mario Dumini, Italian hermit The news and culture blog Gaiti.it offers a tribute to Mario Domini, who died in Nov. 2024. Domini lived for thirty years as a hermit in caves near the central Italian village of San Vittorino. …
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Hermitary – hermit's thatch
journal of reflections by the resident of the Hermitary.
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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
On the “alt-” in alt-right and the “post-” in post-punk – more similar than you may think! When philosopher Kwame Appiah asked “is the post- in postmodernism the post- in postcolonial?”, he was referring to their shared de-centering of (mainly) Eurocentric master narratives about universality, objectivity, and other Enlightenment values. When I …
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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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New research summarizes findings from recent guaranteed income pilot research projects Today, JFI’s Guaranteed Income project lead Jack Landry published a comprehensive report that summarizes the findings from the most significant recent guaranteed income pilot research projects–including JFI’s own just-released NBER working paper on the Compton …
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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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Still Here, Still Queer How fucking delightful is it that I can both promote acceptance while simultaneously making it unpalatable for Bill to link to my blog posts from his Facebook account? Delightful. You know what's not delightful? This: …
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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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Seniors take on new roles with ‘Drama with Friends,’ a Zoom project that had its first live performance Herbert and Gloria are flirting. Like spooning teens, the elderly pair are joking about their relationship and contemplating new places to have sex. Riding a horse, suggests Herbert, garnering a slightly lascivious grin in return. …
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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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The Approach to J. L. Borges Consider just how bizarre fiction is.
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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 …