Latest Posts by marikees - Page 2

Pen y Fan, Wales - March 2020 Rolleicord Vb on Kodak Portra 400

Millennials are the only generation to have to teach both their parents and children not to believe everything they read online

Lesbian Construction Workers Protesting for Jobs, unknown date

“The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs—it relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Meg Porteous, ‘SELF-PORTRAIT (THE SPECTATOR)’, 2019

Standardize tests generally do not measure your grasp of concepts but rather your ability to take tests.

Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, French & Kiswahili.

If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?

untitled by irana on Flickr.

Lingo by Gaston Dorren

so true and no less valid the other way around. most likely, it was noam chomsky who introduced me, a social scientist, to linguistics.

Patti Smith at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, 1971 © David Gahr