Charles Mills as always is exceptionally succinct. Here he explains what 'race' is. His work has been exceptionally important to me. He leaves behind him a legacy of brilliance and compassion. The world will miss him.

Rice is life 🍚 My latest story published by Life & Thyme! I talk (broken) rice history, food processing, climate change, agriculture, colonization, the intersectional narratives of Vietnamese & Gullah Geechee peoples: lifeandthyme.com/food/the-hidde… #agchat #foodjustice #FoodSystems

A beautiful piece of whole work. @science_ari catapult.co/stories/ariana… via Catapult

from the outside in... "A Slideshow of the Interior | Hannah Blair | Hypocrite Reader" hypocritereader.com/95/slideshow-i…

this is one of the most gorgeous outlooks on grief i have ever heard

I imagine this wasn't easy to write. I hope you are well @KhattabAsser. I hear similar themes in this to how the humanitarian machine operates. "I think that I have lost my professional ambitions, or...I may have overcome them." New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/first-person/w…

"Percentages of blood is then tracked and measured by breeding lines—the way we do it with unreasonably expensive dogs—as if that is what a family is." this and so many other gems by GirthGirl ❀˖°⋆｡˚ puritan-magazine.com/nothing-will-b… via Please visit @Ex_Puritan.

"More importantly, we believe the girls we support have the right to fail. We support them to experiment and, yes, sometimes fail together."

"I am the localised knowledge and experience, but my contribution ends there" - @MahaShuayb thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2022/2… The New Humanitarian

Do not let me face and poor video feed deter you; this was a fun conversation! Podcast episode (without my face) will be out in early July!

"As we embark in a future where our technologies are advancing faster and faster, we will need to ensure that our stories are not enhancing “otherness”...with or without donning a headset." JL Jiang neondoorlit.com/blog/augmentin…

"Mottley thought she could work her way to the heights of global finance to gather that money. She wasn’t the first to try it, and she didn’t know how hard a climb that would soon prove to be." Learned so much from this long read🙏 Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica propublica.org/article/mia-mo…

"It’s this scene, a reminder that I need to find the words for the tenderness I once recognized in my father, that always breaks me."

"What aren’t being delivered are sustainable solutions to meet the long-term needs of affected communities; to break the cycle of dependency and help them ride out climate shocks." - Hodan Ali for The New Humanitarian thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2022/0…

“We serve you to only to fill the emptiness and loneliness of your own society” If you do one thing today, watch this speech by Colombia’s president at the UN. 1/2

And that's really all I wanted to convey to this grad student. That we can do so much more than what the institution desires and requires, and sometimes that means doing less for the institution.