SHAC 7 and the Green Scare

Known as the SHAC 7, a group of (now six) animal rights activists who were arrested earlier this year and are awaiting sentencing have become the topic of much conversation in activist communities. They’re considered terrorists. That’s right, terrorists. For running an anti-HLS website. Here’s another one to give you an idea about HLS if [...]

The Hummer in Iran, American Style

From a Washington Post article today entitled Misreading Tehran.
“So today on one side of a Tehran thoroughfare, a fading wall mural celebrates a Palestinian suicide bomber, while on the other a line of posters advertise HUMMER, a cologne named for the American war wagon.”
There was an accompanying photograph, but I couldn’t find it online. The [...]

Andy’s Practices in Everyday Life

living with andy is never dull. he’s been dutifully sewing the bay window cushions for two days straight (a break in his hobby of the week last week which was to build doomwheels for kite skating). suddenly i look up from the living room into the gallery upstairs and see him standing over the railing [...]

Domesticities

 
we’ve been in the new house for about 6 months now and it is fantastic. we just love it–especially having people over. andy just got his mom’s old sewing machine (c. 1960) and has been learning how to use it–so i designed some cushions to go in our two large bay windows in the living [...]

conferences, publishing, and food

i’ve now been to about eight conferences or so and i have yet to have more than about 10 people in any session. and in the sessions i attend, there are only ever about 10 people. most of these conferences have at least 1000 people so what’s going on? is it that there are too [...]

worst thing about being a grownup #1

not being on my parents’ health insurance anymore.
i’m on lsu’s health insurance which is a lot like being in a carnival fun house, blindfolded, with a timed exit before the whole thing explodes.
why is there no tutorial class for people about health insurance literacy skills? i cannot understand all these forms that *ARE NOT A [...]

nwsa conference

just got back from the nwsa (national women’s studies association) conference in oakland. it was pretty good–but not for the reasons expected. i have a peculiar relationship, i think, with feminist scholarship, in that i think of social justice/ power relationships first and identity politics second. always.
so, for instance, i rarely look at a text [...]

Favorite wedding party picture

in all its glory…here’s my favorite picture from that night. somehow, the photographers managed to make the water silo look like it belongs…

writing topics

as i formulate new topics to write on, i’ll be posting them. here are the most current three.
-depictions of female activists in popular culture
(i’ve found no research about this)
this could be a fun article to write. from the simpsons to the constant gardner…
-theorizing a unified media literacy
(which includes media analysis/ownership and media production as well [...]

Thyroid and the Environment

i found this article about the thyroid gland and the environment. since i was diagnosed with hypothyroidism due to hashimoto’s disease (an autoimmune disorder) in late 2002, i’ve met a little under a dozen women under 30 with hypothyroidism due to autoimmune illness or cancer. all but one was from louisiana.
the way people talk about [...]