“Education discourse has recently turned toward resilience and grit. This article critiques the neoliberalism embedded in resilience education and the manner in which a resilience focus encourages docility, adaptation and vulnerability in youth in response to oppressive conditions rather than addressing oppression directly. As a site of resilience for marginalised youth, music is implicated in resilience education’s failure to address systemic oppression.” – Music Education Research
Beyond the Bathrooms: Cultivating Meaningful Trans Inclusion in Theatrical Spaces
“There have been quick and outwardly-positive changes that highlight inclusivity, but broad and meaningful change requires long-term work and systemic shifts in how theatres operate. … It’s true theatres have been putting out more stories featuring trans characters. However, the majority of productions still have entirely cisgender casts, include far too many femme-acting men in dresses as a punchline, and present other harmful jokes at the expense of the trans community.” – HowlRound
Taking Over From Ohad Naharin At Batsheva Dance Company Is A Huge Challenge. Here’s The Woman Who Took It On
Gili Navot, who has been leading the company since last September: “For the past 30 years, Ohad was artistic director and choreographer, and this is the first time there was a separation between the two. … Over the course of the season we were able to go through a process in which he learned to let go and I learned to take. There was something harmonious about it and it is still happening and taking shape, but somehow it is clear.” – Haaretz (Israel)
Kinetic Art Pioneer Carlos Cruz-Diez Dead At 95
“[His] multilayered, eye-popping works challenged conventional notions of perception, color, and light, helping to define what became known as Kinetic Art and Op Art … His work eventually leapt off the wall and into sculptures, installation, and immersive environments, [which] he called ‘Chromosaturations.'” – ARTnews
Finally Seeing Through Silicon Valley’s Shameless Ideas Of Disruption
“As if your moral responsibility could stop at the metaphorical front door, where food, cars, packages magically arrive for your use. We are discovering what a world devoid of moral responsibility looks like. It ain’t magical. Only lately have we come to see disruption as a dressed-up version of scab-ism. It does not make the world a better place.” – Wired
Ferruccio Busoni: “A Fresh Gust of Air”
Preparing an August 15 PostClassical Ensemble program for The Phillips Collection in DC, I discovered myself newly entranced by one of the most magical figures in the history of Western music. – Joe Horowitz
Location Sharing Apps Were Supposed To Be Cool
Instead, we’re all living in an age of terrible anxiety over constant surveillance. What went wrong? – Wired
Who Owns Teddy Roosevelt – And, Honestly, Who Would Want To?
Various U.S. political parties and politicians love to claim kinship with the president who created the National Park System and busted up monopolies. For instance: “Roosevelt’s welfare-state agenda … was not an end in itself; it was a means to facilitate the growth of a culturally homogeneous nation, dominated by the descendants of Anglo-Saxon settlers. Ms. Warren may dream of having a trustbuster as a running mate, but probably not one who refers to white people as the ‘forward race.'” – The New York Times
Where Candyland Came From, Or, How Medical Needs Drive Culture
In short, the board game came from the need for kids isolated in polio wards to have something to do. “Abbott set out to concoct some escapist entertainment for her young wardmates, a game that left behind the strictures of the hospital ward for an adventure that spoke to their wants: the desire to move freely in the pursuit of delights, an easy privilege polio had stolen from them.” – The Atlantic
The Many Languages Of Paris
That is, of its refugee population – and of their radio station. – NPR
We’re In A Climate Emergency, So Could We Ban Glass Skyscrapers?
They’re expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and very expensive – to the planet – to cool. “Energy used on cooling has doubled since 2000 and accounts for about 14% of all energy use now.” – The Observer (UK)