This article seemed to touch on some things from our Monday Session!
“Working Together Is What Humans Are Built to Do”: Social Trust Is Key to Stemming the Coronavirus Crisis Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 2 April 2020.
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What’s the Tea?
Since being stuck at home, I’ve been drinking an excessive amount of tea. Somewhere around my...
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What does ‘Conflict(s)’ mean? ‘Context(s)’? ‘In’???
Wherein I philosophise about how defining a context for a war is as impossible as finding all of them.
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Musicals! What are they good for?
When most people think of musicals, their first reaction is either ‘Oh God no’ or something much...
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Revising Rosie: The Myth that Encompasses the Riveter
She dominates our perception of female empowerment – the face of modern feminism. Unfortunately, Our perception of Rosie the Riveter is doused in myth, distorting our view of feminist history …
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We may be locked down but we can still pudding like it’s 1944!
Thought this was a neat connection to ideas about scarcity and the way war (and our current...
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External signifiers of femininity on war machines…
Thought you might find this interesting in the light of our adventures with Christina Aguilera on...
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Perhaps food is the ultimate weapon?
Anyone see a preoccupation here? I think I need to do some of my own research on these lines. But...
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Armies march on their stomachs…
War is often about resources and food can be both a tool and a weapon. From rationing to...
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Spinning yarns…
We talk about story telling through metaphors of handicrafts and war stories are no different. We...
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