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Language: A Major Barrier for Vaccinations.
On April 28th in Surrey, British Columbia, the Fraser Health Authority had opened up “pop up” clinics in order to mass vaccinate major hot spot areas in Surrey at Newton Athletic Park. This pop-up clinic opened with very communication amongst the public with hundreds showing up at the parks from word-of-mouth. After speaking with a…
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Reflections on Black History Month 2021
2020 has been a seminal year for Black history, present and future in the US, as well as globally. Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, which have been ongoing since 2013, have spread across the world. Only in the US, an estimated 15 to 26 million people participated in the protests by mid-2020, making…
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Race, Racism, and Scholarship on Premodern Race Today
Dear colleagues, It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on HASTAC—for which, my deep apologies—but just before the holidays, I published a blog essay entitled “Why the Hate? The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, and Race, Racism, and Premodern Critical race studies today”: https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2020/12/why-hate-invention-of-race-i… The essay uses a 46-page screed (published as a book…
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January 2021 is not June 2020
The attempted coup yesterday and its contrast with the Black Lives Matter movement invites serious reflection about the difference in motivations between a seditious, antidemocratic personality cult, and legitimate dissent. Prejudice long held that the already powerful will do what is just and what is orderly, since the powerful are order by definition. Yesterday proved…
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The Urban Space as Nature
The Urban Space as Nature The concept of nature and what is natural is socially constructed as much as any social or relational category. What is imagined when asked: ‘What is a natural space or nature to you?’ is reflective of what is considered the environment around us. Being in a desolate forest, next…
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Infrastructures of Oppression: Public Transport System of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
One of the early technologies in the history of human civilization that brought extraordinary transformations in the mode and mobility of human life was the invention of the wheel. With this innovation, the progress of human civilization got new momentum allowing people to carry goods, travel between places, and most importantly shrink the physical distance…
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Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound
Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound As I walk around the current surroundings near my dorm located within Vodra Hall at New Jersey City University, I find myself rejoicing in my environment filled with life. I frequently hear the pleasant, almost…
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Elder Care Pods
I’ve been trying to talk my husband to moving back to Chicago for some time now. Most of our family is there. We may be taking care of my mother-in-law. She is out of state. Last week I had a dream that my mother-in-law and my husband’s aunt and uncle were all walking down the street…
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Oregon and White Supremacy Annotated Bibliography
I originally created this annotated bibliography as part of a project to design a survey about white supremacy in academic libraries for ACRL-Oregon. During the ACRL-Oregon and Washington joint conference in October 2019, librarians discussed the 2017 shooting of a protester by a white supremacist student at the University of Washington. Academic librarians expressed a…
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Mind Fuzz
So my friend is worried about her husband who will need to have surgery this week. She is preparing the house so that when he returns from surgery it will be extra nice for his recovery. She is trying to get out of her head. In 10 days school will start. She is a teacher.…