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Read More: #65, #fakenews #realtalk #realtruth about black girls’ liberationThis #100hardtruths was shared with me by my often-collaborator, the filmmaker, Cheryl Dunye. “Although the numbers of girls that are missing are unclear and the circumstances of their disappearances are…
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Read More: #64, efforts to parse truths, reveal contradictions, or negotiate with this mode of power are disguise what it is: a new fascismIn “Eleven Theses on Neo-Fascism and the Fight to Defeat It,” Lia Haro and Romand Coles write: “The new regime bears important similarities to classic fascism: rapid, rabid intensifications of…
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Read More: #63, the health of nations demands knowledge applied to decision-makingThis #100hardtruths was shared with me by my friend, a scholar and leader within Digital Humanities, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language…
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Read More: #62, don’t lookIn “How Do I (Not) Look? Live Feed Video and Viral Black Death,” July 20, 2016, after the viral visibility of the Diamond Reynold’s live feed video of Philando Castile’s…
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Read More: #61, connect voting rights, disability and the market place of services
This #100hardtruths was shared with me by my friend, and the new media theorist and practitioner, Anne Balsamo: “Two people, both citizens, one votes, the other can’t, but is more…
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Read More: #60, spot a #fakenews site in 10 stepsClaire Wardle is the Research Director of First Draft, a nonprofit dedicated to building tools and resources to help people verify the information they are finding online, writes in “How…
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Read More: #59, silicon valley’s entrepreneurial capitalism leaves rubble in its wakeThis #100hardtruth was shared with me by the artist, Natalie Bookchin: “Silicon Valley has their cake and wants to eat it too. The tools they create, promote, and that enrich…
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Read More: #58, choose to know, name, and share your own internet truths (an invitation)
In 5 #hardtruths and 2 new pledges @#50 I wrote, “choose to know, name, and share your own internet truths. We all know truths about this internet—the place in which…
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Read More: #57, most Americans may conclude he’s a fake presidentThe editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal in “A President’s Credibility: Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad,” writes, “The president clings to his assertion like…
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Read More: #56, subversion through grinning; learn truths from radical black artists who lived through civil rights
This #100hardtruths was shared with me by my friend, the filmmaker Stephen Winter: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfw2AoQzy6Q&w=560&h=315] Enjoy learning the truth about and from Scatman Crothers: actor, singer, seer, subversive middle-finger-holder. As…