Wisdom via Seth Godin

2nd
May. × ’10

In a post titled "David Byrne is angry with me", Seth once again calls our egos out.

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Day 13: Native American women photographers as storytellers

13th
Mar. × ’10

In 'Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers', Joan M. Jensen, Professor Emerita at New Mexico State University, presents a brief introduction to the visual anthropology of indigenous female "message carriers".

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Day 12: Art against femicide (Part II)

12th
Mar. × ’10

Co-Curators Dolores Mercado and Linda Xochitl Tortolero, discuss the exhibition Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez. Unsolved murders of the women in this border town are brought to light through the works of artists featured in the exhibit.

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Day 11: Art against femicide (Part I)

11th
Mar. × ’10

Honeyspace’s fourth show was called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years.

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Day 10: No kudos for ‘Precious’?

10th
Mar. × ’10

The Defenders' Stacey Patton is thankful the Academy of Motion Pictures did not award "a slew of Oscars" to Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire. "Call me a hater. I don’t care," she says.

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Read A Book: The traveling bookshelf

9th
Mar. × ’10

During my recent move I was forced to pack away most of my books. However, there were a few I could not hide in boxes, as I hoped to complete those before the close of the year. The remaining books, now stored in my suitcase, make for an interesting mix - and great conversation.

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Henry Louis Gates celebrates Candomblé in Bahía

17th
Feb. × ’10

American scholar Henry Louis Gates makes his first trip to Bahía, on Brasil's northeastern Atlantic coast, for the start of Carnaval and celebrations of Candomblé, a Brasilian religious tradition that has retained many rites from the Ifa-based religions of Nigeria's Yoruba and Fon peoples.

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