Things Jen Found On The Internet – March 8
Some Things You’ll Probably Forget, It’s Things Jen Found On The Internet
#BLACK LITERACIES MATTER
Vanessa Henry of Toronto has raised a little more than $2,000 of her $3,000 GoFundMe goal to send customized packages of fiction and non-fiction books that focus on the Black experience and Black history to students in elementary and high schools.
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One remarkably successful founder is Ayah Bdeir, who founded the NYC based startup littleBits, which produces modular electronics and small magnets for prototyping. Little bits aims to make STEM education by making it accessible to children from less fortunate backgrounds and underrepresented communities.
Inuk throat singer Shina Novalinga is using TikTok to show her cultural pride and is using her fame both for charity and to release a throat-singing album later this year.
While the throat-singing practice — whose name varies depending on region in Canada — is unique to Inuit people, overtone singing or throat singing is also performed by the Tuvan people in Russia and Tibetans.
But the practice has a sordid history history in Canada with Christian missionaries banning throat singing for the Inuit people centuries ago. The skill of throat singing is relatively rare, but it’s had a resurgence beyond Indigenous circles since the 1980s thanks to Canadian Inuk singer Tanya Tagaq and TikTokers like Novalinga.
Through TikTok she helped raise nearly $12,500 to create individual care packages filled with mittens, hand sanitizer, feminine hygiene products and other essentials for Indigenous women living at a local shelter in Quebec.
