Hi all!
It’s time for another link round up and this time I’m all over the place from Global Game Jam to Civil Rights to a color guard corps member spinning a flag in a blizzard high pile of snow. Standard general content warning applies
- Vice – I Entered Global Game Jam Having Never Made a Game Before, and Didn’t Totally Blow It: http://bit.ly/1WgBsOw
- NYTimes – The Health Benefits Of Knitting: http://nyti.ms/1PzJZHk
- YouTube – White Privilege II: http://bit.ly/1K75PFU [“We wanna dress like, walk like, talk like, dance like, yet we just stand by. We take all we want from black culture, but will we show up for black lives?”]
- FB: Meredith Trask – Alter Egos Flag Spinning Snow Challenge (Video): http://on.fb.me/1VpFt2P
- NYTimes – Beyond the Chokehold: The Path to Eric Garner’s Death: http://nyti.ms/1PIBU7I
- Must Be This Tall To Ride – She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By The Sink: http://bit.ly/1Nz3FK0 [Note: Don’t stop in the first few paragraphs, keep going to the end.]
- NYTimes – F.B.I. Chief Links Scrutiny of Police With Rise in Violent Crime: http://nyti.ms/1Qllxu6
- She Does the City – Adult Learning: Knowing When To Stand Up And When To Sit Down. A Guide For Men Who Want To Do Better: http://bit.ly/1TmAH7H
- NYTimes – New York Leads the Way on Transgender Rights: http://nyti.ms/1K6AN1t
- Fox32 – County commissioner wants Rauner to declare state of emergency in violent neighborhoods: http://bit.ly/1K6yY4r
- Medium – Deray – I Am Running for Mayor of Baltimore: http://bit.ly/1UVHJi6 Related: NYTimes – Black Lives Matter Activist Jumps Into Baltimore Mayoral Fray: http://nyti.ms/1nHVKoC
- GameBeat – Gamer builds computer inside of Super Mario Maker: http://bit.ly/1XbXkM9
- Beyonce – “Formation” Video: http://bit.ly/1XbZQ4Z [Clean Version] http://bit.ly/1SWK65d [Dirty Version] Related: New South Negress – We Slay, Part I: http://bit.ly/1UVKgZK
- NYTimes – The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black: http://nyti.ms/1nX5mwK
- The Chronicle Of Higher Education – ‘It’s Terrifying to Do Something Like This’: Ex-Sorority Member Broadcasts Concerns About Greek Life: http://bit.ly/1Qm6Xm3
- NYTimes – Black Activism On Campus: http://nyti.ms/1UYGzlZ [Mostly in a timeline format] Related: NYTimes – Meet The New Student Activists: http://nyti.ms/1Q5V17n
- Jasmine Walls – Fated: http://bit.ly/1PDE0lV [D&D Based Comic]
- NYTimes – Free Ticket to Super Bowl 50? No, Thanks, He’ll Watch at Home: http://nyti.ms/1T94TUz
- Washington Post – Black Lives Matter activist kills himself on steps of Ohio statehouse: http://wapo.st/1RqVZ3z
- NYTimes – This Video Game Will Break Your Heart: http://nyti.ms/1RqXwH1
- Mashable – Feds sue Ferguson over misuse of law enforcement, rights violations: http://on.mash.to/20WH83m
- NYTimes – Holding Sentencing Reform Hostage: http://nyti.ms/1mo2G9A
- Giant Bomb – It’s Time to Talk About Labor in the Games Industry: http://bit.ly/1QskzML Related: I made a post on my SheriForIGDA.org website that included talking about this here: http://bit.ly/1TTAitF
- The Root – Watch: Slack Was Voted Fastest-Rising Startup at Tech Award Show—and 4 of Its Black Female Engineers Accepted the Award: http://bit.ly/1ovgAsg
- NYTimes – Congress Starts to Get Serious About Online Privacy: http://nyti.ms/1omVpZ7