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Education must convey knowledge that empowers us to imagine more inclusive palaces, where my being enables your being and yours enables mine. (via Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest | Ngugi wa Thiong'o | The Guardian)

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“We live in a world that is constantly trying to eradicate, eliminate, and undo who we are, and to destroy our culture, language, territory, education system, and traditions through extractivism and racism,” she says. “In this context, speaking your language, wearing traditional clothing and face paint, and being part of your community, are acts of resistance.” (In the Ecuadorian Amazon, Wituk Face-Painting Is an Act of Resistance | Vogue)

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Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. (via ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study | Time)

See also I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT | Time

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This week, we look at some of the best protest jazz albums over the past 65 years, carrying on a long tradition of defiance through musical freedom. (via 10 of the Best Protest Jazz Albums | Treble)

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By (re)examining beloved characters and creations sitting on the shelves of our children’s bookshelves, the negative, dehumanising, and often outright racist portrayals of refugees can be gradually dismantled, and the figure of the to-be-feared ‘other’, demolished. (via Superman, Dr Who and more famous refugee heroes for young people | Pop Change)

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...we shouldn't even be beginning to discuss increasing diversity if the players currently employed by the club aren't properly protected from both racial and misogynistic abuse. (via The Racial Abuse Aimed At Jess Carter Is Undoubtedly Appalling - and Highlights A Worrying Trend In Women's Sport | Marie Claire)

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Perspectives on identity from (British) artists... (via MUSIC Multimedia [01]: Blackness & the Global North | SonicWill.Substack)

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Far from a novel phenomenon, green colonialism extends the trajectory of a centuries-old project. Today, it may manifest in new forms, cloaked in the language of sustainability and conservation, yet the foundational systems of exploitation and extraction persist—simply repackaged as environmentally friendly initiatives or justified in the name of preserving nature. (Know What is Green Colonialism? | Shado Mag)

See also Explainer: What Is Green Colonialism? | Earth.Org and What is Waste Colonialism?

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This series — titled We Insist, a nod to Max Roach's 1960 protest album of the same name — attempts to document the songs and videos that will come to define the summer of 2020 (via Protest Music In 2020: A Timeline : NPR)

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The thing that I find saddest about our society at the moment is that so many people are convinced that the way they feel at the moment, the sadness, the sense of aloneness, the uncertainty and the sense of dread about the future, is their fault. That it somehow comes from them, so they’ll do anything to try and change themselves. Actually, in fact, it might be to do with the fact they’re living in a society that isn’t working very well at the moment, and needs changing. But no one’s articulating that to them. (Adam Curtis: ‘I’m dubious about this idea that art can change the world’ | Dazed)

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As technology for bio-sonification — a process that translates electrical data from plants and fungi into sound — becomes increasingly accessible, Becca Inglis explores how artists are connecting with these organisms to create otherworldly compositions and develop new ways of understanding the natural world. (via Meet the electronic musicians collaborating with nature through bio-sonification | DJ Mag)

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If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know. (via Protesting Tips: What to Bring, How to Act, How to Stay Safe | WIRED)

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While the ethical and professional thing to do five years ago would have been to donate them [i.e. our clothes] to charities or friends, now the expectation is that we will sell them online and wait for them to make us our fortune. (via Eva Wiseman: Do we actually need to sell our old clothes?)

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“We want Baldío to be a model that shows it’s possible to be both zero waste and to rely on farmers rather than supermarkets.” (via ‘It really is possible to be zero waste’: the restaurant with no bin | Food waste | The Guardian)

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Why do images and reports of starving and malnourished Africans appear so often in the media? What are the actual dimensions of the problem? What has trade and climate got to do with it? (How Africa Eats | LSE Press)

The book: [PDF] How Africa Eats | LSE Press

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The Artist’s Manual Against Apartheid (AAMAA) is an open-source resource equipping artists and cultural workers with tools for creative resistance. Through practical guidance, reflective exercises, and digital activism strategies, AAMAA empowers individuals to challenge oppressive systems and reimagine a just world. (via An Artist's Manual Against Apartheid)

Extra info: Until the lions have their historians… - Counterpoints

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What’s remarkable about the best post-apocalyptic narratives is what they do with their initial premise — what kind of stories they launch from the springboard of global catastrophe. (via A Brief History of the End of the World - Electric Literature)