SocImages News:
Phew. What a month.
- Thanks to The Conversation for asking me to expand a post I wrote about the sexism and xenophobia behind Dylann Roof’s murders. Their version was picked up by the Washington Post, where it was re-posted, attracting over 500 comments.
- June’s roller coaster of events inspired two new SocImages Collections on the fight for same-sex marriage and white men’s violence. See them all on our Instructors Page.
- We got to put up this beautiful map.
You like! Here are our most appreciated posts this month:
- I am a white woman. No more murder in my name (1,500+ likes)
- Millennials are no less racist than Generation X (and hardly less racist than Boomers) (1,200+ likes)
- Why it was easy for Rachel Dolezal to pass as black (1,000+ likes)
- Powerful people are sensitive to injustice, but mostly when they are its victims (700+ likes)
- Child pageants and the performance of gender (700+ likes)
- The iron cage in binary code: How Facebook shapes your life chances (650+ likes)
- Buy a Joe Strummer replica guitar with your Sex Pistols credit card because layers upon layers of irony (550+ likes)
Thanks everybody!
Editor’s pick:
Top post on Tumblr this month:
With over 15,000 likes and shares, I’m so happy to be helping bring awareness to this issue. At Tumblr, this month’s top post: Defensive architecture aimed at the homeless as a deliberate, considered kind of cruelty.
Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:
Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest. I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.
Finally…
Bye-bye June 2015; we’ll remember you forever.
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