Posts tagged linguistics
my favorite people on the internet
my favorite people on the internet

Celebrating my sixth year of being a human on the internet with some of the people I admire the most

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lifejayemseyblogiversary, blogging, writing, Bitch Media, fellowship, pop culture, Jia Tolentino, Amanda Taub, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Helena Fitzgerald, Griefbacon, Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study, Scaachi Koul, millennial burnout, Rebecca Jennings, John Saito, Haley Nahman, Maybe Baby, Rachel Miller, Just Good Shit, Friday Night Chores, Lili Loofbourow, Amanda Mull, Colin Nagy, Noah Brier, Why is this interesting?, Rebecca Traister, The Pudding, Krystal Bick, Chrissy Teigen, Molly Yeh, Jessica Merchant, How Sweet Eats, Joss Fong, Erik Singer, linguistics, Awesome Restorations, Safiya Nygaard, Susannah McCullough, The Take, Natalie Tran, communitychannel, Pop Culture Detective, Jonathan McIntosh, Debra Minoff, Binging With Babish, Binging with BabishComment
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
minute thoughts 2.13.20
minute thoughts 2.13.20

On the delights of geomapping and the difficulty of reading as an adult

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minute thoughtsjayemseyParasite, the Oscars, Bong Joon-ho, Vulture, Architectural Digest, YouTube, West Village, Apartment Therapy, The Washington Post, Lily Lines, The Disposables, Kristen Bell, photography, travel, memory, New York, New York City, linguistics, subway, what3words, UCSB, Storke Tower, Year in Review, alcohol, drinking, snow, climate change, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, reading, representation, Barnes & Noble, Panda Express, orange chicken, hot and sour soup, '90s, the '80s, playlist, Asian AmericanComment