Every Monday on Global Comment, we share words and ideas that make a great point, strike us deeply, take us by surprise, or are simply beautiful. The stories that are easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional pieces of content.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
The New Pornographers (Roxane Gay / THE BITTER SOUTHERNER)
TikTok is creative and sprawling and often strange and anarchic, which mirrors the internet more broadly. There are few rules; the platform takes all comers. Chaos is inevitable. You can find absolutely anything; it’s incredible to witness how many different ways there are to be, how creative (or uncreative) people are, how we crave attention, hoping that if we make the perfect video, we might be catapulted to some version of fame. It is also … haunting, how so many of us yearn to be seen, to be understood.
We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. (Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa / Politico)
We started seeing a series of children, preteens mostly, who’d been shot in the head. They’d go on to slowly die, only to be replaced by new victims who’d also been shot in the head, and who would also go on to slowly die. Their families told us one of two stories: the children were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces.
The brilliant Lynn Conway died in June (Yesterqueers)
@yesterqueers [RT 3:48] The world said goodbye to Lynn Conway this month, a brilliant trans woman whose work fundamentally changed the field of computer engineering. #historytok #queerhistory #transhistory #pridemonth ♬ original sound – Amanda W. Timpson
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