Had such a wonderful semester, one full of great conversations and learning! Taught six classes: Introduction to Queer Studies (three sections); Introduction to Women’s Studies; Religions and the United States; and First Year Writing I–Identity, Meaning, & Film. And the… Read More ›
Especially when Republicans of 2018 are advocating genocide. Since Barack Obama’s election to Office of the President of the United States in November 2008, Tea-Party-ideologies have emerged and taken increasingly tight control of the Republican Party and its affiliates. Republicans… Read More ›
In ways, this seems silly. In larger perspectives of the barrage of horrid occurrences in the world of 2018, the significance is nil. However, society perpetuates oppression–especially, for purposes here, of the microaggression variety–and gives people little choice about how… Read More ›
Just as with countless other words in English and in other languages, the word “they” does not have any one meaning, nor is its meaning fixed in time. The dictionary defines they as follows: And as will be clear to more… Read More ›
Last night I read Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences published by Penguin Books. The author–Leonard Sax–has a Ph.D. and a M.D., so I expected a monograph of quality. However, I’ve never… Read More ›
Earlier today while reading and reviewing an in-progress chapter for a friend, it occurred to me that we are all vastly guilty of a very specific kind of presentism. We’re so blind to this presentism that it goes almost completely… Read More ›
Terra Naomi’s “Say It’s Possible,” a powerful song inspired by Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, has captured my fascination since first hearing it in 2007. You can watch it here. Lyrics are here. Of all the lyrics I find… Read More ›
