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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Comparing 1989 With 1848 From From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe, by John Connelly (Princeton University Press, 2020), Kindle pp. 738-740: People speak of the revolutions of 1989, but the process of transformation preceded that year …
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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.
By Lenore Skenazy. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
No More Knocks on the Doors of Decent Parents: 5 States Considering Reasonable Childhood Independence Laws! Let’s go, America! We all know kids have the right to some independence, and parents should have the right to give it to them without worrying about the authorities knocking on the door. That’s why …
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Grandma Williams
Exploring the modern world at 80+.
By Joyce Williams. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
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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Stephen Batchelor: “Wonderous Doubt” Stephen Batchelor — author of the classics Alone With Others and The Art of Solitude, plus his key book Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World — discusses his ideas about modern Buddhism …
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Hermitary – hermit's thatch
journal of reflections by the resident of the Hermitary.
By Robert Rodriguez. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Gerlac, medieval hermit Picking up from the previous entry about chickadees: The black-capped chickadee dwells in tree hollows, those spaces within the trunks of trees that have been hollowed out by birds (especially woodpeckers searching for insects) or …
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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
“A Bar Song” and the NY Bar: Shaboozey, Drake, and scalable value in a financialized music industry In their “Year in Music 2024” post to their station website, Jacksonville, Florida Hip hop station Power 106.1 declared that “Women Run The World of Hip Hop.” NPR declared around the same time that “Southern …
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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 Higher Education Finance Research covered in Marketwatch JFI’s Higher Education Finance team just published a new research paper, “Student Debt Cancellation: Evidence from Credit Reporting Panel Data.” Marketwatch covered the paper’s findings in depth: On his way out of office, President Joe …
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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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Some Candidates Debate The Minden ER was shut down in 2023, and local residents have been fighting to have it reopened ever since. Today's debate was organized and run by the folks behind this Facebook group, and it …
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PostSecret
You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project.
By Frank Warren. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Classic Secrets PostSecret: Dark Matter The post Classic Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
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San Francisco Senior Beat
Smashing aging stereotypes through storytelling.
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Sixty years later, a writer returns to her childhood home in Mexico and savors the sights, smells and flavors of a changed San Miguel de Allende Have you ever wondered about retiring to Mexico? Not me, no expat life for me. But I wondered how it would feel to go home to Mexico again. More than sixty years after leaving, I …
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Shapers of the 80s
British youth culture at its finest.
By David Johnson. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
2015 ➤ Steve Strange’s anniversary: deciphering the pen portraits of the man of masks FIRST PUBLISHED 13 FEBRUARY 2015 ◼ ONE OF STEVE STRANGE’S TALENTS was persuading the press to believe in his latest wheeze, however fantastic. He had a way of convincing himself that a story was already …
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THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture.
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Live from New York! SNL’s contemporary standing as an established institution has somewhat obscures its initial trailblazing daring.
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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 …