urmilamohan
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Anthropologist & Editor @jugaad__project edited volume - Efficacious Intimacy - https://t.co/4xylH0THat 📰https://t.co/QPQtQBuQiu
Joined July 2023
🖌️ @HsiaoRoland Thanks for info on the title phrase of your podcast interview (非人磨墨墨磨人), as originally coming from a Su Dong-po (Su Shi) poem entitled "Answering Professor Shu About My Ink Collection for A Second Time" (次韻答舒教授觀餘所藏墨) https://t.co/qyZOPMUZqX
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Really interesting episode about Chinese calligraphy as an embodied practice. I loved Roland’s discussion of the grinding of ink as a meditative process which is part of a reciprocal relationship between a calligrapher and their work.
📣 What does it mean when a calligrapher says "You Grind the Ink but the Ink Grinds You"? https://t.co/ElKGNsQ3Sd
@drurmilamohan spoke with @HsiaoRoland a visual artist, researcher & Assoc Prof of Art at WenZhou Business College about his practice #embodiedworlds #podcast
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Don't miss this opportunity to learn about a growing craft terrain! @200millionartisans @prnasubramanyam
🧵 Sign up for this virtual talk on July 11 by @drurmilamohan on weft ikat textiles in Gujarat, India https://t.co/GbRmh3dIvS
#textileheritage @bluebelldreamer Video by R Kunjera - A weft ikat cloth being woven on a fly shuttle loom
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1/x Our new EMBODIED WORLDS PODCAST ! S1 E1 Dancer or Grasshopper? The World of the Anthropologist https://t.co/ElKGNsQ3Sd
@eocieslik and @drurmilamohan talk with Prof. Em. Jean-Pierre Warnier on his fieldwork in Cameroon To get a bonus track - https://t.co/sHSRz66sdC
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when i was on a menswear forum, there was a nativist who would be like: 😡 "non-white immigrants are ruining white American culture" but then he would turn to me, a non-white immigrant, and ask: 🥹 "can you explain again how to dress according to classic European rules?"
Right-wingers are just saying with their whole chest now that immigrants are "the destruction of our civilization." No one seems to remember but 5-10 years ago this stuff was the province of neo-Nazis. No pretense of caring about jobs or anything like that, it's just the 14 words
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I'm so saddened by the state of bespoke crafts nowadays. Seventy years ago, it would have been possible to go into a famous firm based on Savile Row or London's West End and feel reasonably assured that you're getting the best of the best. However, the decline of bespoke crafts
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How is it that I feel like both the cat and the needle threader when I watch this? #empathy
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I love this!! ❤️
A brilliant, unique letter inspired by pirate treasure maps 🏴☠️ 🗺️ from new writer Katie. This will bring some light-hearted escapism to the recipient and a definite distraction from their illness. #DonateALetter
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@leifweatherby’s new piece in The Boston Globe — pointing out that universities are fundamentally conservative in every way that matters — is awesome. One paragraph in particular (below) really gets to the heart of the matter. 1/
Good piece by @leifweatherby. Are Harvard and other top universities left-wing? Not at all. https://t.co/Ig89qoNmIA via @GlobeIdeas
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@uk_tlf My mum received this lovely pack this morning when she went for her latest hospital appointment. Thank you for brightening her day ❤️
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The @InternetArchive, a public library, has preserved over 400,000 of these recordings through its #Great78Project. Like every library with a sound recording collection, the Archive lends out access to these recordings to people with library cards: https://t.co/S6Dixuqwq9 19/
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So when you are value captured on a metric, you force your values to conform to that impersonal standard. You leave out any of the peculiar, intimate understanding of what it's like for *you* to live following these goals and targets. Institutional de-contexting rules.
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👖Always amazed at the know-how contained in tailoring, sewing, and the plethora of ways in which these processes seem so mundane and so enchanting.
ironwork in tailoring is not the same as what you do at home. when you iron a shirt, your goal is to get out the wrinkles and press the garment flat. but in tailoring, ironwork is used to create shapes.
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Art saw a similar trend in recent years. Black painters who worked with black subjects saw interest surge while those who worked abstractly were left behind. Similar situation with patronage demanding only one kind of art from black people; too much to unpack in one tweet
I’ll say it again: as a black guy who doesn’t work on race (I do British lit + history of science) I’ve fought tooth & nail for the right to study what I want at every stage of my career. Doubly so on the job market where committees/deans want black scholars doing black stuff 2/
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Recently discovered this wonderful charity! This is such a lovely idea ❤️ Thank you @uk_tlf
Spreading joy! Our charity over the last week visited @Leic_hospital @MKHospital @bedfordhospital @ULHT_News hospital, delivering free gift packs to adult cancer patients. Thanks to your support, we shared smiles, comfort & hope. Let's continue making a difference together!
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Thank you so much @NewWaysMinistry and @gfdoerfler for writing an article about the Queer and Catholic Oral History Project! We are still eagerly collecting interviews, and we have many more interviews set to go live on the Project's website soon.
newwaysministry.org
An oral history project gathering the stories of queer Catholics is underway at the Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion at the Pacific School of Religion, California.
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Why Zines? What role have self-publishing and zines played in empowering marginalised groups to tell their own stories in their own words, and how can an independent feminist publishing house like Zubaan take this legacy forward? (1/4)
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We invite applications for a free zine-making workshop for women, queer, trans & non-binary persons from (i) Northeast India and (ii) Dalit, Adivasi, and other Bahujan communities from mainland India. No prior zine-making experience or graphic design knowledge is necessary (1/4)
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Sea Lion Escapes From Central Park Zoo Enclosure During NYC Flooding - The New York Times
nytimes.com
Sally, the marine mammal, got a chance to briefly explore the world outside her pool when the zoo grounds were flooded by the heavy rains.
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Wishing you all a merry and blessed Mabon! In honor of the Autumn Equinox, I wanted to share my recent article about Appalachian folk magic published in the Smithsonian Folklife Magazine. Please take a look!
folklife.si.edu
In the Appalachian Mountains, folk magic goes by many names: root work, granny magic, kitchen witchery, Braucherei, witchcraft.
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