Burkina Faso's military junta has banned homosexuality three years after overthrowing the nation's former government. The 71 unelected members of the junta parliament approved the law Monday, which now awaits the signature of President Ibrahim Traoré, a former army captain who seized power after two coups in 2022. The specifics of the ban have not been revealed — whether it applies to same-sex sexual relations or any LGBTQ+ identity broadly. “The law provides for a prison sentence rangin...| Advocate.com
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled p…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I’ve read this book a few times, but honestly the Foundation TV series has left me with a new enthusiasm to re-read some Asimov stuff. I have previously read the entire extended multi-author series, and honestly a fair few of them sucked — especially the ones by other authors — so this time I have the luxury of being a bit more picky. Worse, Asimov remixed the robot stories several times into various volumes, and it can be quite confusing. The Complete Robot contains all the robot stor...| Made by Mikal
Part 1: Exploring the New Colonialism in Business Part 2: Re-colonization by the Psycho-Medical Complex #neuroColonialism #neuroGoldrush #neuroAssets #neuroGold #supersessionism #Franchise #PyramidScheme #PonziScheme #BrandingGoldrushThe Eagle has been associated with Empire since the ancient Romans. It’s not hard to see why: the ruthless descent out of the blueswooping in to| Reflections on the Neurodiversity Paradigm
Decolonizing Thanksgiving in Oregon By Marie Gettel-Gilmartin, Fertile Ground Communications (written in 2021; updated for 2023 with items in blue text) Many of us grew up learning the myth of Native Americans teaching the struggling pilgrims how to survive and celebrating with a feast in 1621. But for most Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of| Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon - Advocating for arts, culture, history...
By Agnibha MaityIn Bengal, culinary practices have been influenced at different times in history by different communities, and modern-day Bengali cookbooks celebrate the amalgamation of the various cooking techniques Bengali cooks picked up during these cross-continental interactions. However, the rise of the Bengali middle class and modernisation project – including kitchens – in the nineteenth … Continue reading Handbook for Everyday Cooking: Leela Majumdar’s Infusion Approach →| The Recipes Project
Y otra vez me arranco despacito, al sentir que nada necesito (Locura transitoria, Extremoduro) One of my favorite sites in the Internet is algorithmic botany . It’s always a source of inspiration for me. I recently discovered there the space colonization algorithm, concretely in this paper. Originally, the algorithm was developed to simulate leaf venation … Continue reading Colonizing Franky→ The post Colonizing Franky first appeared on Fronkonstin.| Fronkonstin
What the images of the Gaza border fence coming down meant for Palestinians. by Mariam Barghouti, Al Jazeera, Oct 14, 2023 In the early morning hours of Saturday, October 7, Palestinians across the…| Warrior Publications
thank you Kristy Tremblay for the poster. image description of it is at the bottom of the post. Taking place on occupied & unceded Secwepemc territory. Hosted by Femme For All Collective. In so…| THE ANTI-OPPRESSION NETWORK
