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UK cultural organisations urge Andy Burnham to break EU touring deadlock

According to a survey from UK Music, 95% of touring musicians have reported a loss of earnings since Brexit Continue reading...

Mixmag · EN

BOOK BANS, DISINFORMATION, AND CULTURAL ERASURE

Cultural “erasure” silences or disappears marginalized communities, writes Jaeger, a scholar at the University of Maryland and a lifelong disabled person and activist for disability rights. “At this moment,” he writes, groups are “seeking to limit the gains made in recent years by women, BIPOC communities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, members of the Jewish faith, and disabled people.” Disinformation may be entirely invented or achieved by removing context. He provides chilling statistics on censorship and includes examples of self-censorship and neutrality claims. He presents these eleme

Kirkus · EN

Flushing is a cultural center!??

This is so heartening . America never disappeared, it just was asleep, lulled into naivete by the dashing figure Trump cast on his TV show, and he said some of the right things in his 2016 campaign. Truthful things people had never heard from a candidate and wanted to hear and wanted to believe something would be done to make it better. I got this perspective listening to Dave Chappelle explain it. And Trump helped us buy straight talk from candidates. We're getting it now from the new crop of inspiring senators and governors. Remarkable times we live in, such highs and lows. People from NY, s

Scripting News · EN