Musings

CANADA

10/10, give me tiny replicas of animal statues that I am encouraged to pat as part every exhibit ever please

collection

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

A Cook's Tour (2001) by Anthony Bourdain

incredible picture found on the interwebs i had to share with everypony

She turned off the comments on the previous videos and made a new one discussing how people are being insane on the internet, which I am empathetic to .... but she still refuses to acknowledge the very valid criticisms of the first two videos (where she was "obsessed" and "wanted to see more") and I'm just... disappointed.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

Museums & Picture Galleries, 1909

An archaeologist quoted in the article says "the point of these earrings is not to showcase legitimate ancient artistry, it is to fetishize the past, to be a commodity, stolen from the elite, circulated illegally, and immorally…this is about class signalling."

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

Two Earthlings (2009) by John Brosio