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Here are some links. Each descriptive text is also from the link.
Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America Considering the Role of Blackness and Black Bodies in the American Literary Canon. (Toni Morrison, Literary Hub)
Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski Michael W. Young explores the personal crisis plaguing the Polish-born anthropologist at the end of his first major stint of ethnographic immersion in the Trobriand Islands, a period of self-doubt glimpsed through entries in his diary - the most infamous, most nakedly honest document in the annals of social anthropology. (Michael W. Young, The Public Domain Review)
Don't Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism's Sadistic Eroticization of Power To give in to speculation about botox or extensions, or to run the gamut of derisive and mostly sexist terms for physical ugliness, is a form of submission to fascism’s eroticization of power. (by Jeff Sharlet, Religion Dispatches)
Decolonizing Your Shower, One Soap Bar at a Time How Sisters Sage brings activism, entrepreneurship and First Nations plant medicine into the bath. (by Katie Hyslop, The Tyee)
Newberry Transcribe Help preserve the past by transcribing handwritten letters and diaries at Newberry Digital Collections. (you can do this in your browser!)
And some Wikipedia pages I've found interesting lately, e.g. after rewatching "Amadeus."
Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. (Wikipedia)
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche Therese Elisabeth Alexandra Förster-Nietzsche was the sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the creator of the Nietzsche Archive in 1894. [...] In the 1950s, it was claimed by Nietzsche's new editors and translators such as Walter Kaufmann that Nietzsche's work had been edited by Förster-Nietzsche to highlight racist and eugenicist themes, but this account has been the subject of debate in recent scholarship. (Wikipedia)
Oorang Indians The franchise was a novelty team put together by Walter Lingo to market his Oorang (Airedale Terrier) dog kennels. All of the Indians players were Native American, with Jim Thorpe serving as its leading player and coach. (Wikipedia)
Traitorous eight The newly founded Fairchild Semiconductor soon grew into a leader in the semiconductor industry [...] and was directly or indirectly involved in the creation of dozens of corporations, including Intel and AMD. These many spin-off companies came to be known as "Fairchildren." (Wikipedia)