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  1. Nov 2018
    1. NICOLE EISENMAN Work comes out of life. Where else would your work come out of, if not your experience? Being a queer woman is the air that I breathe, and it’s inescapable, and it’s going to be part of the work. But I would like gender to just disappear from the face of the earth.

      While every part of her being factors into her work, she does wish that some aspects of her did not exist, and I respect that feeling.

    2. Ms. Eisenman’s most ambitious works consist of large-scale street scenes crowded with figures and intimations of her Expressionist forebears, especially James Ensor and Edvard Munch.

      I do like the inclusion of work that has inspired her making its way into her own work.

    1. Her work owes a lot to Japanese art and anime, comic books, and graphic novels, but with Toyin, the written word leads irrevocably to picture making.

      It's great to see the combination of different cultures here that combined to make Toyin's works as unique as they are.

    2. Because she’s Nigerian, that shade, says Toyin, “is much deeper than you get in the American South. When I was growing up, our household was very patriarchal. People were happy when I was born, but when my brother was born, the whole village was involved. My father would tell my brother, ‘You have to do this or that because you’re carrying my name.’ My mom would take me aside and say, ‘I don’t care what your father says, you’re carrying my name. You got the Ojih.’ ” In 2015, Toyin officially added the “Ojih” to “Odutola.”

      It looks like Toyin and her mother were not afraid to go against what society believed, and they were not afraid to show their passion about it either.

    3. With its panoply of individual black faces against white backgrounds, drawn in layers and layers of ink from a ballpoint pen, it established her as a brilliant innovator in the depiction of black skin.

      The way the article describes her style is like they are saying that having black skin is something beautiful and that people should be proud of, which is great because I am sure that's the exact message that Toyin is trying to get across in her work.

  2. Oct 2018
    1. nearly half the artists are female and half are nonwhite. Calling the painting “a mockery” and “an injustice to the black community,”

      How is this "a mockery" what makes this picture "an injustice?"

    2. Ms. Schutz, who first exhibited the painting last year in a gallery in Berlin, has stated that she intends never to sell the work

      This sounds like a safe move.

    3. The curators said that they wanted to include the painting because many of the exhibition’s artists focus on violence

      This picture certainly fits the bill.

    1. Until 2010, the Dominican Republic automatically bestowed citizenship to anyone born on its soil.

      So what happened?

    2. Meanwhile, the military announced that it had deported 47,700 Haitians caught entering the country in the past year, more than double the nearly 21,000 deported in the previous year.

      so over 50,000 people just denied access to the country.

    3. Many of those “are now effectively stateless,” McMullen said. “We really don’t know what’s going to happen to those people … Based on what the Dominican government is saying, these people are not Dominican citizens and will have to leave and effectively go to Haiti, where they are also not citizens. It creates an extremely complicated situation.”

      So they aren't citizens, but they can't leave so what is going to happen to them?

    4. Officials promised to create a path to Dominican citizenship, but gave no details about how it would work or who would be covered.

      So just say that there is a way to fix a problem but not explain how it will be fixed?

    5. Experts warned Friday that a Dominican court decision to strip citizenship from children of Haitian migrants could cause a human rights crisis,

      Of course it could, they're taking rights away from children.

    1. They also face restrictions in carrying out basic social tasks and activities such as opening a bank account, activating a mobile phone or buying on credit.

      So not only are they denied citizenship they can't do anything to help themselves in the place where they live but probably can't leave.

    2. in practice children whose father is a Dominican national but whose mother is an undocumented foreigner are denied birth registration and have no means of exercising or proving their Dominican nationality.

      Well that's a very sexist law

    3. In 2007 it systematised these practices by issuing two administrative decisions which had the effect of preventing identity documents being issued or renewed for Dominican-born children of Haitian migrants who had not regularized their migration status at the time of their children’s birth.

      Which probably caused a lot of trouble for Haitian migrants who were having children.

    4. Dominican-born children of Haitian parents as citizens and issued them with Dominican birth certificates, identity cards and passports – at least in the vast majority of cases.

      This must have caused a lot of confusion.

    5. , the Dominican authorities have yet to acknowledge that the problem of statelessness exists

      That must make it impossible for the voices of the people to actually be heard if the authorities aren't even acknowledging that the people are facing problems

  3. Sep 2018
    1. For example, using the IAT to choose jurors is not ethical.

      This makes sense as someone could use it to find people who would unknowingly weigh towards one side over the other.

    2. Because the Implicit Association Test (IAT) sometimes reveals troubling aspects of human nature, it poses the possibility of causing discomfort. If you are considering using the IAT in your research, your research plan should take this possibility into account.

      Are people afraid of finding out they are closet racists or something?

    1. The IAT score is based on how long it takes a person, on average,

      Does this mean the score is based on how long it takes someone to sort seemingly similar objects into categories?

    2. The IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy). The main idea is that making a response is easier when closely related items share the same response key.

      So it allows two things that someone perceives as nearly identical to be clearly sorted into separate groups that allow both of them to have an easily distinguishable identity.

  4. implicit.harvard.edu implicit.harvard.edu
    1. For example, you may believe that women and men should be equally associated with science, but your automatic associations could show that you (like many others) associate men with science more than you associate women with science.

      So this test is able to reveal true feelings about topics that we may not have even been aware of?

    2. A smoker might truly believe that she smokes a pack a day, or might not keep track at all. The difference between being unwilling and unable is the difference between purposely hiding something from someone and unknowingly hiding something from yourself.

      Is it worse to have dangerous problem that you don't even know about or is it worse to knowingly hide this problem, or under sell it's true danger?