Category Archives: Feminisms
What are We Supposed to Do With Student Evals Anyway?
This post is not to exalt evaluations as the pinnacle of student assessment. First, the hunt for great evaluations sped on by grade inflation and student pressure for good grades can negotiate a tacit contract between instructors and students-a kind … Continue reading
Filed under Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Grad School, Teaching
Rape Culture, Rape Prevention, & Masculinity
This was an invited talk at Your Community Center in Ogden, UT on April 14, 2012 to address the connection between masculinity, rape, & culture during a Take Back the Night event. They titled the presentation “How Not To Be … Continue reading
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Breitbart, Olbermann, and the Claims of Rape at Occupy Protests
Abstract: Rape likely occurs-based on Breitbart’s own statistics-at a far higher rate in the society as a whole than it ever did in occupy. Rape occurs on country roads and urban corridors. It happens in the suburbs and at schools. … Continue reading
Filed under Feminisms, Grad School, Uncategorized
Rick Perry’s Strong #Rhetoric and the Politics of Censoring Hate Speech
[Warning this post contains references to Judith Butler that some may find always objectionable and already incomprehensible. Fair enough.] This week Rick Perry pulled up his boots and stepped in it once again delivering a divisive new ad that among … Continue reading
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Hate Speech Rarely Stays Just Speech [Updated]
[Update x3] SLCPD Chief Burbank will be speaking tonight (Sept 9) at 8pm at a fireside vigil at Liberty Park. The vigil is part of ongoing work to draw attention to the attack and violence in this area of Salt … Continue reading
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Feminisms and the Catch-22 of Political Life
My colleague and mentor Karrin Vasby Anderson recently wrote and outstanding piece for BagNews on the redundant visual trope of the crazy eyed woman politician. A trope most recently mustered to depict Michele Bachmann as crazy. Anderson argues that there … Continue reading
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