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Sunny Singh Online: When Neutral is Really Default Setting For Male (and White): A Slightly Non-Scientific SocMed Experiment
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Sunday, February 14, 2016. When Neutral is Really Default Setting For Male (and White): A Slightly Non-Scientific SocMed Experiment. I have written before about online gendered harassment. And trolling. The recent report by the Women's Media Centre. The wheel however leaves out aspects other than visible gender that impact our experiences online, including but not limited to race, nationality, religion, and sexuality. Here I want to talk about just one of the above intersections: of gender with race.
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Sunny Singh Online: The End of Beauty
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016. The End of Beauty. The year when beauty ended. The year that robbed us of David Bowie. And Prince. And S.H. Raza. And Mahashweta Devi. From the very first day of the year, the stars aligned against music and words and colours. Against creation and art. Steadily, inexorably, a dull, grey storm cloud rose until it engulfed the planet. The storm had been germinating for a long while. Or do I mean a cyclone? Shall I call it a hurricane? Then we realised that if a strike were lau...