~~~~ Amy Tan Teaches Fiction, Memory, and Imagination – MasterClass page “Amy Tan was 33 before she first explored her voice as a fiction author. A few years later, her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, spent 40 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now she’s showing you her approach to the challenges … Read moreAmy Tan on Writing and Depression, and Using What is Beyond Our Ordinary Senses
(Dear Life Records) Ironically enough, Florry’s ultra-charming The Holey Bible reaches its most ascendant moment after the false ending of its closing track, From Where You Are. Here, the Francie Medosch-led alt-country collective fully gels with a hot guitar lead, desperately sawed strings, and an assured bass line. Like the book upon which the album’s … Read moreMusic Review: The Holey Bible – Florry
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer, and founder of the nonprofit Freedom Reads. His New York Times Magazine article “Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out” won the National Magazine Award. His new podcast is Almost There. “I felt like I had to own becoming something and intuitively understood that … Read moreLongform Podcast #549: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Susan Burton is an editor at This American Life, the author of the memoir Empty, and the host of the podcast The Retrievals. “I know I have much more anger than I reveal, and I don’t think that’s uncommon. Especially for women. There’s been a lot of attention to that in recent years—the anger of … Read moreLongform Podcast #548: Susan Burton
In SherryBaby (2006), Maggie Gyllenhaal portrayed Sherry Swanson, who returns home after serving a prison sentence to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter. Gyllenhaal described for Interview magazine her experience with the character, and the big change in her attitude toward appreciating roles that are “not so wayward.” Maggie Gyllenhaal: “We shot Sherrybaby in … Read moreMaggie Gyllenhaal on working with the dark and light
In the last year and a half, New York City has scrambled to try and provide shelter and services to over 150,000 migrants. We take a look at how that’s going. Prologue: In the middle of the night, host Ira Glass meets a woman on a mission at Port Authority bus station. (13 minutes) Act One: … Read more818: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Music Reviews (felte) Ten years after releasing their final album as Abe Vigoda, Crush, songwriters Michael Vidal and Juan Velasquez decided it was time to give it another go. Their reunion seemed unlikely. At the time, Crush represented a marked departure from their first two albums—modeling their sound on icy, maximalist coldwave that did away … Read moreMusic Review: Romantic Music – Cupid & Psyche
From infamy to truth. Epistemic coloniality and knowledges in resistance: an approach to the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo CantúMiguel Angel Martínez MartínezEquality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of the article is to show the regime of truth in the institutional commissions that have the objective of … Read moreFrom infamy to truth. Epistemic coloniality and knowledges in resistance: an approach to the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú
This study addresses the significant gaps in diversity and inclusivity research on LGBTQ employees and contributes to the literature in three significant ways. First, this study examines the diversity management mechanisms at the organizational level and explicates their interplay at the micro, meso and macro levels to create congruence, both internally and externally, for engaging … Read moreInclusion for LGBTQ talent: a practice theory approach
In this article, the authors draw on critical race theory and critical whiteness studies, specifically Cheryl Harris’ work to expose the whiteness of philanthropy, not as a racial identity, but in the way that philanthropy is performed. The authors characterize one of the property functions of whiteness, the right to exclude, as working through two … Read morePhilanthropy as whiteness: toward racially just philanthropic practices