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In this episode of Overthink, Ellie and David conclude their four-part series on intimate relationships with a discussion of polyamory. Many argue that polyamory has liberatory potential as a radical form of relating to others. Some say that polyamory is natural for humans–is this story from evolutionary biology true, and does it matter? Ellie and David discuss these issues and also explain how polyamory encourages us to rethink jealousy through the concept of compersion. The two also touch on the relation between polyamory and colonialism, and gender and racial dynamics in understanding poly identities!

previous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsaa821kWQ8

Hannah Montana? Capitalism? Video Essay?

Sometimes, you watch a video and really do end up asking yourself: “is there more to life?”

The Atlantic columnist buys what white supremacists are selling

Across three different centuries, the so-called white identitarians embraced different iterations of the same position. The legitimate grievances of black Americans were long past, they said, and attempts to remedy them would tip the scales too far and impose an unfair burden on the white majority. Whenever people in power acquiesced to the white supremacists, they leveraged that acquiescence to subjugate minorities and entrench white supremacy further. Chatterton is a contributor to this longstanding intellectual tradition, not because he believes in its mission but because he buys its excuses.

In 2004, historian Thomas Frank proposed a theory about the rightward drift of the white working class. Was he a prescient king whose work presaged the rise of Trump — or a bumbling fool with a broken thesis? Unfortunately it turns out he is a secret third thing that takes one hour and six minutes to explain.

Racism makes people vote dumb. RIP.

When Amia Srinivasan published The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century in 2021, it sparked widespread debate about the politics of desire, consent, and sexual justice.

In this episode of The Exchange, the Oxford academic joins Tanjil Rashid to discuss how philosophy can illuminate some of the most contentious questions in contemporary culture: from incels and pornography to whether our desires are shaped by society.

The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town by Robyn Smith was made when Robyn was living in White River Junction, Vermont, and she found herself in a sea of whiteness. In the first two sections of the comic—”Sad” and “Angry”—Robyn processes her personal experiences as she is constantly confronted by the discomfort felt by her White neighbors, classmates, and colleagues. This white discomfort manifests in nervous behavior, suspicion, and inappropriate comments, jokes and actions. In the final section—”Black”—Robyn pushes back, and exerts her individuality, and points out that it’s not her blackness that is causing problems, but her community’s whiteness that needs examination and confrontation.

Seen and felt.

When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries changing his behavior to survive a police interaction.

“Better run, better run, outrun my gun…”

A comic about two black kids sitting on a box and wondering what’s inside.

via: https://madwomb.com/tutorials/ComicsLiterature_MIT.html

see: https://madwomb.com/tutorials/comicsDesign/literature/RichiePope_ThatBoxWeSitOn.pdf

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

Actually cooked.

The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

Say their motherfucking names.

So much for Black Lives Matter.

Sharyn Alfonsi’s Inside CECOT for 60 Minutes, which was censored by Bari Weiss, as it appeared on Canada’s Global TV app.

Wow. And they pulled this shit off the air. Terrifying.

The Family Red Apple boycott, also known as the “Red Apple boycott”, “Church Avenue boycott” or “Flatbush boycott”, was the starting point of an eighteen-month series of boycotts targeting Korean-owned stores. It began in January 1990 with a Korean-American-owned shop called Family Red Apple at 1823 Church Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and extended to other stores, both within and beyond the original neighborhood.

Racial turmoil set up by the white man in my own neighborhood. Harrowing indeed.

via: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032329299027001005

An excellent piece making clear how Asian Americans fit into the tapestry of race in America, and how they’re used as pawns by whites to to further the disenfranchisement of blacks.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTUJoMinuU`