{"id":16114,"date":"2019-12-12T01:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16114"},"modified":"2019-12-12T01:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T08:34:14","slug":"quick-takes-academic-excellence-twerking-racist-sandwiches-eating-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/12\/12\/quick-takes-academic-excellence-twerking-racist-sandwiches-eating-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Academic Excellence: Twerking; Racist Sandwiches; Eating Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Worth that lifetime of crushing debt, amirite?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QfzpAv1hi2Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah, college, where the leaders of the future learn to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/10\/18\/gender-studies-professor-calls-twerking-with-lizzo-an-act-of-political-defiance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twerk with an overweight celebrity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is branding her surprise on-stage guest-performance with Lizzo last week an \u2018act of political defiance\u2019 serving as the \u2018epitome of pleasure activism,\u2019 a new liberal academic concept.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cProfessor Sami Schalk, who teaches women and gender studies at the university told Vox that her twerking with the popular singer is the embodiment of what it means to derive pleasure from defying societal standards of beauty, otherwise known as \u2018pleasure activism\u2019 according to Schalk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019Pleasure is the way I love and take care of myself. And to publicly love a body that the world says I should be ashamed of is a political act of defiance,\u2019 Schalk wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSchalk describes pleasure activism by quoting the academic who designed the concept.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019Pleasure activism asserts that we all need and deserve pleasure, and that our social structures must reflect this. In this moment, we must prioritize the pleasure of those most impacted by oppression,\u2019 according to theorist Adrienne Maree Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet again we hear people whining about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=13907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">food justice<\/a>\u201d\u2026 brought to us this time by Yale.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYale University hosted Wednesday the host of a podcast, titled, \u201cRacist Sandwich,\u201d which examines food through a social justice lens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Ivy League school invited Soleil Ho to speak, with the event co-sponsored by Yale\u2019s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indegenity, and Transnational Migration, the Timothy Dwight College (a dorm), the Yale Sustainable Food Program, the Asian American Cultural Center, according to a university news release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHo ties the food industry to gender, race, and class in her podcast and often has guests including Julia Turshen, author of a cookbook called \u2018Feed the Resistance.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So, what is the <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">woke food<\/a> we are allowed to eat for \u201cfood justice\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA growing number of major American universities are encouraging students to normalize eating bugs in the name of \u2018sustainability,\u2019 with many pushing events where students are actually fed meals with insect ingredients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFriday, Boise State is set to host the founder of Orchestra Provisions, a company that makes spices out of crickets in an effort to steer people toward \u2018sustainable solutions to live in balance with the earth.\u2019 The company focuses on re-branding insect-derived food to be marketed as more palatable in the name of finding \u2018creative solutions for our biological limitations\u2019 because \u2018the food systems in place will not successfully carry the weight of an increasing population of humans.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUniversity of Georgia&#8217;s Grady College&#8217;s journalism program recently published an informational piece in which it interviewed various \u2018experts\u2019 on \u2018entomophagy\u2019 (the practice of eating insects) about \u2018what kind of nutrients people can get from eating insects and whether or not this is something that could be sustainable with an exponentially growing world population.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Academic Excellence: Twerking; Racist Sandwiches; Eating Bugs\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Worth that lifetime of crushing debt, amirite?\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Worth that lifetime of crushing debt, amirite? 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