overcoming procrastination

2024.05.01

Another day of continuing my thesis research!

Today’s goals:

Finish book my supervisor recommended

Complete 5+ study blocks (3/5)

(previous editions) bold = favourite

race & gender

a few good men (usa)

catching the men who sell subway groping videos (china/japan)

wonder women

i learnt about masculinity from a colombian telenovela

the romance scammer on my sofa (nigeria)

politics & current affairs

have assisted dying laws gone too far? (canada)

inside man (usa)

cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the home office (uk)

portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. why hasn’t the world copied it?

the twenty-first century of (profitable) war (usa)

history, culture, & personal essays

i called everyone in jeffrey epstein’s little black book

ngũgĩ wa thiong’o: three days with a giant of african literature

the man in the iron lung

a mother’s exchange for her daughter’s future

30 years ago, romania deprived thousands of babies of human contact

inside the secretive world of penile enlargement

the promise that tested my parents until the end

greek migrant boat disaster

drowning in lies

‘If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned’

survivors of greek migrant tragedy say coastguard rope toppled boat

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & labour

blackbirding: families were ripped apart in the pacific — now, these women are working to reunite them (australia)

the not-so-hidden racism of nancy drew

i’m fucking agitated, are you going to murder me? (usa)

who owns the country? the secretive companies hoarding england’s land

a gruesome severed fingertip tells a painful story about corporate japan

being an honorary white person doesn’t make us more powerful

gender, sexuality, & intersectionality

cocooning

‘fearless, stoic and attractive’: a history of the state-sanctioned russian woman

i am a man, but i am not

chile’s new law blazes trail for children of femicide victims

why foreign wives in south korea are vulnerable to domestic violence

politics & current affairs

the true cost of tuna: marine observers dying at sea

the abolitionists born after hurricane maría (puerto rico)

thailand’s opposition parties start alliance talks after voters reject military rule

how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island (portugal)

el salvador gangs: mass arrests bring calm but at what price?

after the fall (australia/afghanistan)

history, culture, & personal essays

how i left the far right (usa)

‘how do I prove my innocence?’ casting students as would-be cheaters eager to exploit ai tools is disheartening

the rape culture of the 1980s, explained by sixteen candles

i placed my first wager when i was 10. i’ve gambled more than $1 million since

the joy of sulk

missed calls

Psych final review🫧