Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, circa 1905.
The daughter of a Chinese intellectual, Tongbi was the first Asian student at Barnard. After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Tongbi returned to China and became involved in feminist causes. Unlike many other women of her class, Tongbi’s feet had never been bound as her parents objected to the practice. In Shanghai, Tongbi co-founded a Tianzuhui (Natural Feet Society) with a female doctor. Tongbi also edited Nüxuebao (Women’s Education), one of the first women’s journals in China, and published a biography of her father Kang Youwei. In the 1920s, she helped organize the Shanghai Women’s Association, which petitioned the Nationalist government in Nanjing for a new constitution under the slogan, “Down with the warlords and up with equality between men and women.”.
I’d never heard of the consensus process or ‘stack’ until my last year at school when suddenly my life was flooded with it. Sure it takes a little longer, but there is something truly transformative and empowering about the process and resulting decision. This short piece made by the lovely folks at Meerkat Media does an excellent and beautiful job at explaining the method as seen in practice at #ows. worth the watch.
(This has been floating around in various parts of my network for the past couple of days so I’m not quite sure whom to attribute it to [via ?])
bought new beachwear/lakewear today for the first time in five years. this is what i want my four weeks in america to look like. everyday.
Summerland II
this is literally insane and horrible simultaneously.
Garrison Keillor, infamous hipster.
(via City Pages)Garrison Keillor.
Been listening to so much Lake Wobegon.
(via motherjones)
You Write Like a Girl
“I don’t mean this in any unkind way.”
I may have to skip those books of his still sitting, unread, on my childhood book shelf from a Christmas five or six years ago.
“In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society this week, during which VS Naipaul provoked fury by suggesting that women writers are ‘sentimental’ and ‘unequal to me’, he also claimed that ‘I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.’ Do you?”
The Guardian provides a helpful little quiz here.
Also, “sentimental?” Is it 1850? Jesus.
I’m just about to check out his website, but I can vouch that the entirety of his flickr is worth the look.
Intending to be blogging more and more on Chinese photography so keep those eyes of yours open and seeing.
good:
We imagine you can’t go too hard toward the net for a spike, but this is still pretty great.
Comedy/tragedy. Arizona/Mexico fence.
Now that is taking a useless object, and giving it purpose.
“Potatoes are the first kind of living things to be grown in space”.
brief and lovely video typography by Cheryl Yau.
