SboNdaba — The expressive dance company housed in an old church in Cape Town
‘What if the monsters are present not because reason isn’t awake to fend them off but because reason, in its slumber, actively generates them?’ Link
‘Americans repurposed other English words as well. For example, bug, which meant a bedbug in England, broadened to cover any insect, and sick, which referred specifically to a digestive upset, became a general term for any illness’ Link
Women and the Practice of Medicine: A New History (1950-2020)
A visionary platform for decolonization: The Red Deal and this
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is building a theory of justice for a warming world
‘[N]owadays any conversation about oppression, discrimination and exclusion usually has recourse at some point to the idea of the Other. But such conversations are often hampered by a far too simplistic understanding of what it means to be other to someone else’ Simone de Beauvoir on freedom and difference
‘We are now almost a quarter of the way through what looks likely to go down in history as the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press’ Link
‘[Kevin Hood] Gary suggests that we cannot think our way out of boredom but must rather act in ways that change us. He offers three directives for leisure: Become an apprentice, cultivate a spirit of study, and remember our epiphanies’ Link
Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble
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