Oetimu: suatu wilayah kecil di pelosok Nusa Tenggara Timur. Masa itu adalah paruh kedua 1990an, dan kejadian-kejadian di wilayah Indonesia selebihnya mau tak mau berdampak kepada kehidupan sosial orang-orang di kampung yang terpencil itu. Kolonialisme Indonesia di Timor Timur kian disorot dunia internasional, sementara warisan kekerasan antara militer Indonesia dan gerilyawan Fretilin ikut meny…
Di Indonesia, berkulit putih dipandang sebagai norma kecantikan. Obsesi memiliki kulit putih membuat produk pemutih kulit menduduki tempat teratas dalam penjualan industri kosmetik. Dari mana obsesi itu bermula, dan apa makna sosial-politik berkulit putih di Indonesia? Bahkan jauh sebelum masuknya kolonialisme Barat, perempuan berkulit putih sudah dianggap sebagai ideal kecantikan, seperti …
The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportcoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball team. The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from Sportcoat's best friend - Hot Sausage - to the local Italian mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the sta…
Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them poss…