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92% of the people ISIS has killed are Muslims and white people have the audacity to make it all about themselves.
~ @KababPapi (Sah-mur)
More of the western canon isn’t the solution: the best conversations about books fold in a vast variety of perspectives. Teens read broadly and read deeply, and they read without bias. They clamor for diverse authors, they cross genres without batting an eye, and they’re as likely to read a story on Wattpad as they are one of the Brontë sisters. This open-mindedness marked my teenage years as well: I read great swaths of Denby-approved literature alongside millions of words of Harry Potter fanfiction. (I’m still doing this more than a decade later, and, full disclosure, I freelance for the New Yorker too.) Both camps sharpened my critical tools, and both gave me all the pleasure that reading affords. Perhaps they don’t need me or any other adult to say it, but the kids are all right. Their language might be different, their ways of consuming words might be different, but don’t doubt for a second that they aren’t reading as they stare at those screens – and that they aren’t loving every word of it.
Teen readers aren't in crisis, they're just making their own rules | Books | The Guardian
Don’t you just want to hug the stuffing out of @elizabethminkel?
THEY JUST KEEP JUMPING ON THE COUNTER. AND CRAWLING UP HER LEG. THIS IS THE GREATEST PROBLEM YOU COULD EVER HAVE
This is both adorable and stressful to watch. Damn it, kittens, be good! Food’s coming!
OH MY GOD SHE NAMED ONE OF HER CATS OBAMA

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Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online
An Iraqi/German pair of artists just pulled off what might be one of the most digitally-enhanced art heists in recent time. They covertly scanned the Nefertiti bust (with an Xbox 360 Kinect sensor, no less) and released the 3D printing plans online. They did so as an act of defiance, as the bust was actually looted from an Egyptian site by German archaeologists.[x]
[article by Claire Voone /Hyperallergic]
Last October, two artists entered the Neues Museum in Berlin, where they clandestinely scanned the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the state museum’s prized gem. Three months later, they released the collected 3D dataset online as a torrent, providing completely free access under public domain to the one object in the museum’s collection off-limits to photographers. Anyone may download and remix the information now; the artists themselves used it to create a 3D-printed, one-to-one polymer resin model they claim is the most precise replica of the bust ever made, with just micrometer variations. That bust now resides permanently in the American University of Cairo as a stand-in for the original, 3,300-year-old work that was removed from its country of origin shortly after its discovery in 1912 by German archaeologists in Amarna.
Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles with the 3D bust in Cairo
The project, called “The Other Nefertiti,” is the work of German-Iraqi artist Nora Al-Badri and German artist Jan Nikolai Nelles, who consider their actions an artistic intervention to make cultural objects publicly available to all. For years, Germany and Egypt have hotly disputed the rightful location of the stucco-coated, limestone Queen, with Egyptian officials claiming that she left the country illegally and demanding the Neues Museum return her. With this controversy of ownership in mind, Al-Badri and Nelles also want, more broadly, for museums to reassess their collections with a critical eye and consider how they present the narratives of objects from other cultures they own as a result of colonial histories.
The Neues Museum, which the artists believe knows about their project but has chosen not to respond, is particularly guarded towards accessibility to data concerning its collections. According to the pair, although the museum has scanned Nefertiti’s bust, it will not make the information public — a choice that increasingly seems backwards as more and more museums around the world are encouraging the public to access their collections, often through digitization projects. Notably, the British Museum has hosted a “scanathon” where visitors scanned objects on display with their smartphones to crowdsource the creation of a digital archive — an event that contrasts starkly with Al-Badri and Nelles’s covert deed.
3D rendering of the bust of Nefertiti
“We appeal to [the Neues Museum] and those in charge behind it to rethink their attitude,” Al-Badri told Hyperallergic. “It is very simple to achieve a great outreach by opening their archives to the public domain, where cultural heritage is really accessible for everybody and can’t be possessed.”
In a gesture of clear defiance to institutional order, Al-Badri and Nelles leaked the information at Europe’s largest hacker conference, the annual Chaos Communication Congress. Within 24 hours, at least 1,000 people had already downloaded the torrent from the original seed, and many of them became seeders as well. Since then, the pair has also received requests from Egyptian universities asking to use the information for academic purposes and even businesses wondering if they may use it to create souvenirs. Nefertiti’s bust is one of the most copied works from Ancient Egypt — aside from those with illicit intents, others have used photogrammetry to reconstruct it — and its allure and high-profile presence make it a particularly charged work to engage with in discussions of ownership and institutional representations of artifacts.
“The head of Nefertiti represents all the other millions of stolen and looted artifacts all over the world currently happening, for example, in Syria, Iraq, and in Egypt,” Al-Badri said. “Archaeological artifacts as a cultural memory originate for the most part from the Global South; however, a vast number of important objects can be found in Western museums and private collections. We should face the fact that the colonial structures continue to exist today and still produce their inherent symbolic struggles.”
Al-Badri and Nelles take issue, for instance, with the Neues Museum’s method of displaying the bust, which apparently does not provide viewers with any context of how it arrived at the museum — thus transforming it and creating a new history tantamount to fiction, they believe. Over the years, the bust has become a symbol of German identity, a status cemented by the fact that the museum is state-run, and many Egyptians have long condemned this shaping of identity with an object from their cultural heritage.
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Ultimately, the artists hope their actions will place pressure on not only the Neues Museum but on all museums to repatriate objects to the communities and nations from which they came.
Rather than viewing such an idea as radical, they see it as pragmatic, as a logical update to cultural institutions in the digital era: especially given the technological possibilities of today, the pair believes museums who repatriate artifacts could then show copies or digital representatives of them. Many people have already created their own Nefertitis from the released data; the 3D statue in the American University in Cairo stands as such an example of Al-Badri and Nelles’s ideals for the future of museums, in addition to being one immediate solution that may arise from individual action.
“Luckily there are ways where we don’t even need any topdown effort from institutions or museums,” Al-Badri said, “but where the people can reclaim the museums as their public space through alternative virtual realities, fiction, or captivating the objects like we did.”
3D-printed bust of Nefertiti
[source: Hyperallergic, emphasis mine]
This is fucking amazing. CROWD SOURCED ART! RECLAIM CULTURAL ARTIFACTS!!!
“Two Black Lives Matter activists interrupted a private Hillary Clinton fundraising event Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina. Youth activist Ashley Williams demanded that the Democratic presidential candidate account for inconsistencies in her record on race, specifically around comments she made about crime in 1996. Williams said she and a colleague, whom she did not identify, contributed $500 to attend the Clinton even…
[…] “Hillary Clinton has a pattern of throwing the Black community under the bus when it serves her politically,“ Williams said in a statement before the event. “She called our boys ‘super-predators’ in ’96, then she race-baited when running against Obama in ‘08, now she’s a lifelong civil rights activist. I just want to know which Hillary is running for President, the one from ’96, ’08, or the new Hillary?””
– Black Lives Matter Activists Interrupt Hillary Clinton At Private Event In South Carolina | Huffington Post
We feel the urge to ship because it’s pleasurable–and we go ahead and act on that urge. That’s the subversive part of shipping, as the mostly female, often queer shippers of transformative fandom refashion narratives and refocus character relationships to suit their desires. The mere act of shipping can be political, regardless of what kind of political statement your pairing makes: whether it’s wholly divorced from canon or directly tied to the source material, whether it’s light and fluffy or utterly serious, it’s the idea of shipping that’s important.
in my latest piece for @newstatesman, I wrote about ship wars and some of the reasons we ship (via elizabethminkel)
*hears a song*
me: nice
*plays song 5000000000 more times*
me: still nice
everyone else: please stop

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Was putting off finishing Salt to the Sea because I knew it was about to get sad and FUCK DID IT EVER. Also, way to be ALFRED. A DOUCHE TO THE END. Seriously? He stole a woman's coat and a dead child's life vest? What a fuckity fucking scum fuck. I haven't despised a character this much in a long long time.
Anyone else wishing the chapters in Salt to the Sea were longer? I adore all of our four protags but every time a chapter ends after one page of their POV, it’s jarring. Perhaps that’s the intent, though.
I was thinking about this too (RF). Do you guys think longer would be more satisfying? Or are the short chapters part of what makes it so unputdownable?
I love the short chapters. I like the way the perspective is constantly changing, though it takes a bit to get into the flow.
I’m fasting on men for Lent.
I thought you were supposed to give up something that’s worthwhile
Joana is absolutely my favorite character so far and I am loving learning more about the complexity of her guilt and how it plays into her decisions throughout the book. I’ve been tracking and marking significant passages where she reveals aspects of that guilt. Glad to be using my sky stick notes (From my Book Riot YA 03 box, thanks @veronikelly-mars!!! =D ) I can’t wait to see how her story continues and what comes to be revealed. Anyone else tracking another character? Or have a similar Joana fascination?
Christopher returns! David Sutcliffe joins the Gilmore Girls revival
Following the news that all three of Rory’s ex-boyfriends will return for Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival, there’s another man returning to Rory’s life: Her father.

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