Why don’t more poor people write about their lives?
Oh yes, they’re poor.
I’ve been working over the past couple of months to prepare a syllabus for a course I’m teaching this fall, an intro course entitled “Women: Images and Ideas.” Contrary to what I expected going into this, I had a much easier time preparing for most of the weeks than I have for […]
NAAFA (closing remarks)
In an email discussion I’ve been having, this morning I received a link to the schedule for NAAFA’s conference this summer. I don’t expect to make many more posts on the problems with NAAFA, since I think the conference this summer is a solid testament to the failures of NAAFA. There are a few workshops […]
Butterflies
Literally, butterflies. They dive-bombed me all the way from the lecture I just gave to the grad student office. I’ve never had to actually duck to avoid being hit by a monarch, but apparently they’re on a suicide mission today.
Not so much figuratively - I thought I’d be insanely nervous for the 8 am guest […]
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Invisible homeless
As part of my job as a teaching assistant, I watch films for the class and develop response questions connecting the film to the readings. This Thursday, the students will be viewing It WAS a Wonderful Life, a documentary made in 1992 about six or seven “invisible homeless women” of Los Angeles.
It’s interesting how my […]
Why, Tyra? WHY?
Okay, I’ll admit: I don’t harbor any particular fondness for Tyra Banks. Yes, I watch Top Model, and that’s a whole other post waiting to happen.
For those who don’t watch the Tyra show (or who, unlike me, don’t have a wife who keeps you abreast of stuff happening on the show), she periodically does these […]
The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
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