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From Me and the Cult Leader (2020), dir. Atsushi Sakahara (all images courtesy Exile PR) Japan has long enjoyed one of the lowest crime rates in the world. In the midst of such peace, the terrorist attacks by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo shocked the nation. On the morning of March 20, 1995, five members … Read More “Me and the Cult Leader, an Unlikely Story of Forgiveness” »
Portrait of Jaklin Romine (image courtesy the artist) Welcome to the 23rd installment of the interview series Meet LA’s Art Community. Check out our past interviews here. This week, I interviewed the artist Jaklin Romine, who has lived in Los Angeles her entire life. Romine’s work hovers between installation, sculpture, and photography; in particular, she’s interested in … Read More “Meet LA’s Art Community: Jaklin Romine Is Flagging LA’s Inaccessible Art Galleries” »
Students on the Harvard University campus (photo by Stijn Debrouwere via Flickr) US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today new guidance that will have a devastating impact on international students across the country. A series of modifications to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students forbid anyone with an F-1 or M-1 visa who is enrolled … Read More “ICE Announced International Students Must Leave the US if Their School Is Exclusively Online” »
The skytyped phrase “#DEFUND HATE” is seen over the Los Angeles headquarters of Geo Group, a company that invests in private prisons, on July 3 (photo by Robin Black for In Plain Sight) From Los Angeles to El Paso, New York City to New Mexico, messages denouncing the immigrant detention crisis and incarceration culture graced … Read More “#DefundHate: Artists Create Skytyped Messages Denouncing the Immigrant Detention Crisis” »
La Jornada and Together We Can Community Resource Center Inc’s food pantry at the Queens Museum (courtesy the Queens Museum) Queens, the New York City borough hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, was described during the peak of the outbreak as the “epicenter of the epicenter.” In addition to the devastating loss of lives, the … Read More “Queens Museum Hosts Food Pantry to Help NYC Borough at Epicenter of COVID-19 Crisis” »
In this post, wildlife biologist & Lifeology blog contributor Sarah Nason shares with us her infographic submission for the June SciComm Challenge! Note: the Maori are the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Throughout this blog post, I use the Maori place and species names as much as possible to respect the history of this land … Read More “Infographic: Why do female insects mate with multiple males?” »
