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If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…word has lost all meaning. So what would be a responsible way to report on Republicans, then? Well, for starters: every time a Republican voices white nationalist and other racist dog whistles, they need to be called out, not merely quoted—and they need to be called out on it every time. Every time a Republican who has voiced “Great Replacement” views in the past is interviewed, he or she needs to be explicitly asked about it—and if they don’t act…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…talist lens that continues to shape the understandings of the histories of Central Asian and Afghanistan, including how narratives of Afghans themselves are told. Orientalism, as defined in cultural critic Edward Said’s 1978 seminal work of the same name, is in part defined as pejorative perceptions of the Orient from a colonialist perspective, which regard people living in the Middle East as well as South, Central, and East Asia as “less than.” W…

Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…with free will (though this may still be an illusion of free will, as the code for the game is likely to be quite deterministic). Since she is the only one in the game that suffers pain but no death, it will be interesting to see the evolution of her ethical code within the virtual world. The transformation of Tamara from a helpless lost soul to a gun-toting avenger sets up the stage for her probable showdown with Zoe—a continuation of Adama-Gray…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…e racially divisive events painfully exposed the different perspectives of African American and white communities writ large. The attacks on black churches, therefore, provided a respite of cohesion—an issue that seemingly most Americans could agree was wrong and want to do something about. I interviewed many of the white volunteers who helped rebuild black churches and who felt that, by helping to restore a church destroyed by hate, they were pla…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of “Let’s Protect Our Children,” a group that sponsored a signature drive promoting a referendum against “gay propaganda.” Another group, “Family,” also backed the referendum campaign and warns against “genderism.” Taiwan: Marriage Equality Opponents Push Referendum The Central Election Commission held a hearing on Thursday on a referendum proposed by marriage equality opponents that would require marriage equality or custody legislation to be ap…

For Black Buddhists Struggling with Intergenerational Trauma of Slavery, Segregation, and Incarceration, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Teachings are Vital

By Rima Vesely-Flad

…the “Touching the Earth” ceremony as a daily practice. The deep bow that’s central to the ritual felt like “completely giving myself to the ancestors and the earth.” Berry describes this prostration as a heart-opening, humble practice that aligned Buddhism with his African-American heritage in an embodied way. In addition to embracing “Touching the Earth” as a daily practice, Berry traveled to Virginia, to the land of a friend whose family had own…

Massacre in Mindanao: The Irresistible Urge to Blame Religion

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…article appears to be neutral, it in fact bolsters the case for continuing central government or GPR intervention in the affairs of Mindanaons. The ARMM is not once mentioned as an entity that might be able to function apart from Luzon forces—both political and military, but especially military—controlling all activities even as it limits the options of Muslims, Christians and Lumads (indigenous people) in Mindanao. The irony of vigilant monitorin…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…Through the grand spectacle of the Santa Cena, the charismatic appeal of a central figure, and, eventually, the digital transmission of certain key rituals, it was possible to bring together a different kind of religious community. Charismatic religious figures aren’t new, of course. But you start to wonder how LLDM would look today if people weren’t so accustomed to linking themselves to distant events through screens, and if it weren’t so easy t…

Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…en diverse by culture, economic necessity, and social obligation. Extended African American family networks of adult caregivers, gay and straight, related and un-related, have always contributed to child-rearing. When racist/sexist criminal sentencing policies, joblessness, and inequitable access to housing loosened or precluded “traditional” family ties, multi-generational family networks were the glue. As the recession intensifies these stressor…

When Children’s Literature is Not Defined by “Innocence”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ican religious history. I don’t say that to degrade those narratives or to promote them—but to notice how they are always with us, and how memory work is a practice, and a very complicated one. In the case of Jews, African Americans, and the overlaps across those identities, we can look at memory in a productive sense, at how pains touch one another, rather than devolving into the rhetoric of comparative suffering. Is there anything you had to lea…