April Joyner |
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"Illegal immigrant" no more
Big news on the copy/semantics front: the AP has updated its stylebook to discourage the use of the term “illegal immigrant.” Score one for Colorlines?
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“I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”
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Teju Cole (via semperes)
This is a salient point, and it’s something I hadn’t thought of.
(Source: thewhiskeypropagandist)
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Notes"We’re kind of living in a bilingual nation, at least among educated elites—English and some form of programming…"—Abe Riesman, Web consultant and writer
via The Smithian
(Source: New York Magazine, via thesmithian)
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Behold, The Forefathers Of Google Glass » BuzzFeed
Can’t pick just one winner.
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“Calling race a “social construct” does not mean that the biological ancestry — and specifically West African ancestry — of African Americans is...”
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Farhad Manjoo on the new Square Stand:
Translation: Credit cards will be here for a good long time. This...
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Unthinkable Mind Student, Natalie DeCheck [AKA Brain Stem] with her book in the form of a board game. She’s graduating this week with a major in...
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Even though Tumblr has been around for several years, I’d never taken a serious look at it until recently. I’ve mostly used...
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“There is more maturity here and none of the “smartness” which he himself came to deplore.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, reviewed...
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Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on “Likeability”
Our Page-Turner blog asked a group of novelists how often the...
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art: by Hamra Abbas | photo by Lawrie Shabibi
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