Culture & Media Stop Stigmatizing Cultural Appropriation Posted on October 16, 20188 commentsbyZane Beal Cultural appropriation. The term alone leaves many people primed for offense. Unfortunately, as a tool for policing behavior, the concept makes little sense. It implies that extant cultural differences are… View Post
View Post 8 min Battle of Ideas Excuse Me, You Appear to Have a Broken Moral Compass Posted on October 10, 20184 commentsbyHelen Dale Helen Dale will be speaking at the Battle of Ideas on “Cultural Appropriation in Literature: Whose voice is it anyway?” on Sunday 14th October Sunday 7 October was the 1-year… View Post
View Post 14 min Culture & Media Appropriating Confusion: A Reply to Briahna Joy Gray in Current Affairs Posted on September 21, 2017October 6, 20172 commentsbyKenan Malik Earlier this year, Kenan Malik wrote an essay in the New York Times critical of the now-fashionable concept of “cultural appropriation.” The article caused some controversy. Briahna Joy Gray wrote… View Post
View Post 10 min Features Taking out a Patent on Culture Posted on July 17, 2017June 6, 20183 commentsbyFrank Furedi Calls to destroy a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of a black victim of a lynch mob hanging in the Whitney Museum illustrates that for many, even artistic… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media I Am a Minority and I Prohibit You Posted on March 29, 2017September 9, 201718 commentsbyMalhar Mali I am a minority and I prohibit you from culturally appropriating my native culture. I was born in India, hence, I prohibit you from stealing my culture, eating any foods… View Post