Month: July 2021
Instagram Update
Directing people to other websites has been somewhere between difficult and impossible within Instagram ,Users were only allowed to use links in bio. Now, the company is giving people the option of including links within their stories just by using a sticker which is still under testing. The feature is also only available in stories,
Recognizing ecocide as a crime by ICC
any human activity that significantly damages the environment by intentionally putting the health of ecosystems and the species that form them at risk of serious harm is called ecocide. In June 2021 a team of international lawyers unveiled a new legal definition of ecocide and they are pressuring the International Criminal Court (ICC) to establish
Nationalmuseum of Sweden
The Nationalmuseum is government sponsored and is mandated with preserving cultural heritage and promoting art and interest in art. But it is along these lines that some of the museum’s visitors have recently taken to social media to denounce the addition of warnings of nationalism, racism and sexism implicit in some of their pieces of
racial stereotyping in Hollywood
Hollywood has a long history of pigeonholing, racial stereotyping and oversight concerning racial demographics. Following the backlash against famous whitewashing criticism aimed at recent remakes of foreign classics, such as the 2017 Ghost in the Shell rehash, Hollywood is trying a change of approach by funding more ethnically diverse story-lines and culturally accurate productions. The
history of cultural genocide in US
In 2021 the US Senate approved the first Native American as the head of a cabinet agency, appointing Representative Debra Haaland of New Mexico as Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Following the recent discovery of a mass grave at a religious American Indian boarding school in British Columbia, Canada, Debra Haaland announced that