ecotexts class

i’m very excited about teaching an ecotexts class this spring. it’s a “literary themes” class at the 2000 level. i’m putting together the website for it right now and i’m also trying to put finishing touches on the syllabus. i decided to change the format of the class a little bit than what i [...]

“from the kitchen to the congress”

Nancy Pelosi thanked her grandchildren and children today as she was given the gavel as the first woman speaker of the house (yay!) for giving her the courage to go “from the kitchen to the congress.”
Although I was thrilled by most of what she said yesterday, in terms of women, equality, and the future of [...]

luncheon on women and pregnancy in academia

Tomorrow is the luncheon on having children and/in academia. Inspired by my dear friend and colleague Jennifer, I started organizing this at the beginning of the semester and am a little nervous about it. At first, I really didn’t anticipate it being more than 20 people at most and now, we’re expecting at least 65 [...]

cycles of uprising

I’ve been meaning to write about the fantastic experience that was cycles of uprising. first of all, you have to check out this site for a little background info about some of the members. cycles of uprising describes themselves as “an interactive bicycle village, folk music show, circus, dance party, and adventure that celebrates historic [...]

reclaiming the productive schedule!

after a quite a bit of time slacking off on my reading schedule, i am back, roaring and ready to go. now with new and improved tagging and note-taking (which by the way was inspired by earth wide moth and his musings on notes specifically).
in other news, i have cancelled not one but two conferences [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Eco-Issues: Water

i just finished a great book called Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva. It started with a quote from the president (or vice president) of the World Bank saying “if the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water.”
water has been [...]