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tiger kings and tiger mothers
tiger kings and tiger mothers

I’m finally ready to talk about Atlanta

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culturejayemseyAtlanta, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Crazy Rich Asians, Isla Vista, school shootings, mass shootings, gun control, gun violence, Black Lives Matter, racism, sexism, misogyny, fetishization, grief, Gummo, Harmony Korine, Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Chloë Sevigny, Minari, America, American Dream, Americans, The Joy Luck Club, stories, Oriental, Dragon Lady, tiger mom, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, history, perpetual foreigner, Maggie Q, Nikita, Tiger King, Steven Yeun, The New York Times, Byrdie, sexual assault, sex trafficking, catcalling, The Onion, empathy, The Atlantic, Anne Anlin Cheng, Faith Xue, Chinese, Chinese-American, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese food, Museum of Chinese in America, #StopAsianHate, TikTok, Chinatown, This Land Is Your Land, Asian AmericanComment
the stolen history of new york
the stolen history of new york

Examining the stories of the people and places lost in time to uncover the legacy of slavery and colonialism in modern-day Manhattan

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culturejayemseyNew York, New York City, history, oral history, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, colonialism, Benoît Challand, slavery, racism, anti-racism, systemic racism, Black Lives Matter, Occupy City Hall, protests, Manhattan, Mannahatta, Lenape, Walking Purchase, The Mannahatta Project, Wildlife Conservation Society, Chinatown, Spanish Harlem, Harlem, Flushing, Greenpoint, Crown Heights, linguistics, language, Endangered Language Alliance, Rivers Cosmogram, Langston Hughes, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, African-American, Dutch, immigrants, Harlem Renaissance, Great Migration, LGBTQ, El Barrio, El Museo del Barrio, Malcolm X, Puerto Rico, the Bronx, Latino, World War II, Casa Latina Music Shop, Tito Puente, Seneca Village, Seneca Village Project, Vox, Missing Chapter, Tanner's Spring, catacombs, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Catholicism, Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust, Holocaust, Auschwitz, Madison Square Park, Repertorio Español, Murray Hill, The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Stonewall Inn, Pride, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Stonewall 50 - WorldPride NYC 2019, Gay Liberation, George Segal, Stonewall National Monument, Christopher Park, Washington Square Park, Dutch West India Company, Hangman's Elm, Astor Place, John Jacob Astor, La Plaza Cultural, art, 97 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, tenement, Little Guangdong-Hong Kong, Mott Street, Chinese Exclusion Act, Irish Hunger Memorial, Brian Tolle, Gail Wittwer-Laird, Great Irish Famine, Museum at Eldridge Street Synagogue, Greetings From Chinatown, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Little Fuzhou, Manhattan Bridge, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, bloody angle, Doyer Street, Wilson Tang, Wing on Wo & Co., Mei Lum, Walter Eng, the W.O.W. Project, COVID-19, coronavirus, Five Points, Gangs of New York, Triumph of the Human Spirit, Lorenzo Pace, African Burial Ground, New Amsterdam, national park, National Park Service, autonomous zone, community, justice, NYPD, Park Row, Ah Ken, 74 Wall Street, New York slave market, Atlas Obscura, The Seaman's Bank for Savings in the City of New York, Netherland Monument, The Battery, Black Gotham, Tenement Museum, Museum of Chinese in America, The 1619 Project, NYPL Community Oral History Project, NYPLComment
pocket philosophy 2019
pocket philosophy 2019

My second all-night philosophy festival

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culturejayemseyA Night of Philosophy and Ideas, Brooklyn Public Library, philosophy, calm, anger, equanimity, halo effect, Patton Oswalt, Twitter, New York, New York City, zen, peace, 52 Places Traveler, Jada Yuan, Sebastian Modak, Panama, Puerto Rico, submission, BDSM, Desperate Housewives, The Odyssey, Muslim, hijab, agency, history, power, music, Franz Schubert, Im Frühling, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, Lithium, spring, antidepressant, Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, commodification, colonialism, capitalism, Manhattan, African Burial Ground, African-American, Jim Crow, post-colonialism, ICE, Black Gotham Experience, bite-sized philosophyComment