Culture
The year of living digitally: Top 30 global TV series of 2020
December 23, 2020The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. This...
Read moreA pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary
December 22, 2020Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...
Read moreTV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series
December 21, 2020Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...
Read moreDavi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
December 21, 2020From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute [IMS] which presented the Yanomamis’...
Read moreRemembering protest singer Phil Ochs on his 80th birthday
December 18, 2020Ochs was one of our nation’s most profound singer/songwriters in the period that bridged the Civil Rights, antiwar, and feminist movements.
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