Iona Italia
🇮🇳🇬🇧 Parsi. 🖖🏽 Subedits @areomagazine; hosts Two for Tea: soundcloud.com/user-761174326 Latest book: Our Tango World bit.ly/OurTangoWorld
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The Singular Power of Writing: A Conversation with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Otis Houston speaks to Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of “Losing My Cool” and “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”
Iona Italia
There was also a lovely interview with @thomaschattwill in the @LAReviewofBooks, which gave the podcast a couple of shout-outs.
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Babylon 5 - Lyta meets G'Kar
One of my favourite scenes. This comes from the pilot episode "The Gathering", and I was pleased to see that they made reference back to it in the final epis...
Iona Italia
Direct & conscious, please. Wouldn't that be your choice, too, my friends? #Babylon5 #Gkar
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Birmingham school protesters ‘threw eggs at gay rights group’
The police are investigating claims that LGBT activists were pelted with eggs and intimidated by protesters outside a primary school at the centre of a row over its teaching of gay rights. Officers...
An alphabet of hope for the city of dreams
A is for the archives of Adil Jussawalla which range from newspapers of the 1950s to playbills from Bombay’s theatre scene and photographs of Bessie Head in Iowa.B is for bhelpuri, the dish, not the m
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Post-Truth Politics and the “Great Replacement”
On 15 March, Australian Brenton Tarrant entered a New Zealand mosque and brutally massacred dozens of people. Posted online before the attack, Tarrant’s manifesto is an attempt to justify this horr…
Ep. 17: Gastronomic Jalsa and Digital Jilpa in D Minor with Krish Ashok
On this episode, host Karthik Nagarajan is joined by Krish Ashok, Global Head, Digital Workplace at TCS. They talk about music, food science, Indian nutrition, and Ayurveda. He also shares some scientific methods of cooking food and his admiration...
Iona Italia
Hey, @krishashok, we have had problems scheduling this in the past because you are such a globetrotter, but you MUST come on my podcast! Listening to you on this reminded me of how encyclopedically brilliant & hilariously irreverent you are.
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Two for Tea with Iona Italia and Helen Pluckrose on Apple Podcasts
News & Politics · 2019
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Ambassador G'Kar: "We Are One"
President Sheridan asks Ambassador G'Kar to write a Declaration of Principles for the new Interstellar Alliance, one which all member races will have to sign...
Iona Italia
However, the spiritual heart of #Babylon5 is the Narn ambassador, G'kar. Can't watch this or quote from this without tears
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Babylon 5 - Delenn on the Minbari Religion
In a great episode from one of my favorite shows, Babylon 5, a young catholic monk played by guest star Brad Dourif asks Delenn to explain Minbari spiritual ...
Iona Italia
Hey, @jay_shapiro, I was itching to tell you about the Minbari religion in #Babylon5 but I refrained because people already think I am a giant loser nerd. It's cool & relevant to our discussion, though.
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Placing Douglas Murray's Article Referring to Ahmadi Muslims in Context
This post is a follow on to some friendly Twitter conversation regarding Douglas Murray's latest article, Here we go again - but this time, Je suis Berlin. What I did take from Douglas Murray's latest article is that some elements of the liberal...
The Ahmadiyya: Beliefs and Practices
Who are the Ahmadiyya, and why are these Muslims persecuted the world over by other Muslims? How does their interpretation of Islam differ from mainstream Sunni Islam? We'll take a brief tour through several topics covering differences of...
Iona Italia
This, by @ReasonOnFaith, is an excellent account of the Ahmadis. The way they are treated by my former homeland (🇵🇰) & by much of the Muslim world is disgusting. However, while Ahmadi beliefs are more liberal than those of Sunni/Shia Islam ... 1/2
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For trans people, gender-swap photo filters are no mere game
Snapchat's new photo filter that allows users to change into a man or woman with the tap of a finger is not necessarily fun and games for transgender people
The Night The Lights Went Out
“Pieces were stolen from me
Or dare I say… given away?”
Trump Shows Signs He Will Pardon Servicemen Accused or Convicted of War Crimes
Military officials received expedited requests for paperwork needed to pardon several military members on or around Memorial Day.
27 - Benjamin Boyce - Social Justice and the Evergreen Debacle
4:18 The Evergreen system of education & why it appealed to Benjamin
10:45 Benjamin’s introduction to intersectionality and the supposed ubiquity of white male privilege
14:35 The confrontation betwee
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Iona Italia
A new episode of #TwoForTea is up, for your listening pleasure! I interviewed the rosy-eyed & starry-bottomed (his words) @BenjaminABoyce on what happened during the Evergreen protests (he was there) & why this should continue to worry us
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Congress Allows Bad Faith Actor To Derail Hearing On Hate, Again
The House Oversight Committee hosted a hearing meant to tackle white supremacist violence. But it invited a witness who denies there's a problem.
Induced Abortion in a Population Entitled to Free-of-Charge Long-Acting Reversible Contraception. - PubMed - NCBI
Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Dec;132(6):1453-1460. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002966.
Star Trek Nighthawks
PRINTS : society6.com/product/star-trek… I really wanted to do a Star Trek version of Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. I've seen so many other parodies done, including several Star Wars ver...
A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There’s No Sign of It.
Since a Saudi royal, most likely the crown prince, paid $450 million for “Salvator Mundi,” it has vanished from view, and museums hoping to show it say they don’t know where it is.