Asking students how they are really doing should not be a rare occurrence. For several years now, I have scheduled a day mid-semester for wellness in almost all of my classes because I have seen my students arrive more and more… Read More ›
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122 visits. 74 hours. Office Hours.
I’ve always had busy office hours as discussed here. Invisible Labor is pervasive in our world. People labor in ways that are often unseen, unacknowledged, and/or even unpaid. In order to help counter this, I tracked visits this semester. The… Read More ›
Spring 2019 Class Pictures
Another semester has concluded! The class picture tradition continues! This semester I taught Introduction to Women’s Studies; Comparative Creation Myths; Introduction to GLBT/Queer Studies (two sections); and Sexuality and Queer Theory! Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda
Forced Negotiations
I present to you the third video project with my students. 28 volunteers from my classes this semester made contributions to this group poem about trying to live, thrive, and survive in our present-day world of 2019. Hope you enjoy!… Read More ›
“You Need Feminism Because”
The group reading of “I Want A Dyke For President” went so well, everyone wanted to do another one. For this one, everyone who wanted to participate came up with their own answers to “you need feminism because.” We have… Read More ›
Notes on: Free Speech vs Censorship, Facts vs Opinions, and Writing
Recent events, including today’s (weird, irrelevant, distraction-mechanism) announcement by Trump about colleges and “free speech zones,” warrant a few comments and reminders about free speech/censorship and about facts/options, generally. People should remember common sense and decency at every step. People… Read More ›
Notes on: Students, Houston, and Sex Trafficking
Conversation today in my Introduction to Women’s Studies class ended up going to the topic of Houston being one of the number one places in the United States for sex trafficking, which I knew about. What I did not know… Read More ›
