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— By Cal (Crystal) Biruk Abstract The MSM category has traveled far and wide from its invention in US public health worlds in the late-1990s, migrating as well into anthropological scholarship that is critical of its reductionist, biomedicalized, Western, and de-eroticizing logics. While much has been written about ‘MSM’ as a flawed category that misdirects resources in health worlds, or as an imported nominalization that grafts awkwardly onto ‘real’, local, sexual, and gendered selves, my interest in this article is in revisiting the MSM category as a technology that facilitates linkages, processes, and dynamics constituting projects that take form in...

Of the issues Joshua Wong has faced during his time as an activist—harassment by Chinese state media, travel bans, and disqualification from local politics—the loquacious dissident rarely suffers a loss for words. But that was the problem nearly a decade ago, when he gave one of his first broadcast interviews. Wong, then just a teenager, was organizing and leading demonstrations that eventually made Hong Kong’s government withdraw controversial education reforms, but during that questioning, he “stuttered a lot,” he later recalled, admitting that he needed more than a dozen tries to do the take. Experiences like those helped prepare Wong,...

s Some of us are into bowling, others love traveling, nature, or rock hunting. Does that mean you collect all the bowling balls to make a giant pyramid, or gather every single mosquito you’ve ever killed, or arrange the keys of every hotel and motel you’ve ever been to? Well, for these people, it does indeed. Meet the collectors of the most random items out there, who prove that nothing is off-limits when it comes to human curiosity. From a shark tooth collection to a collection of every insect found at home in Australia, Bored Panda has compiled a list...

Are all these topics and events related?   Are they part of a bigger plan?  And what exactly is the Great Reset?   Great questions!  We’re going to try to “connect the dots” in this article, so put on your seatbelts and get ready to learn. In June, at a virtual meeting hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), many of the “globalists” met and proposed to “reset” the global economy. We’ve seen the same group of government agents, powerful business leaders, and activists using climate change to justify their policy changes for decades, but the Great Reset is the most radical...

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