Random Musings
Listening: Booda Velvets, Headrush
Santana, Shaman
Reading: Slavoj Zizek, _The Sublime Object of Ideology_
Thyrza Goodeve and Donna Haraway, _How Like A Leaf_
So the first week of teaching for this semester is over. I’ve met all my classes and they rock. Feminist theory is going to be a blast. Lots of W.O.W. and Spectrum folk, which will make for groovy discussion. The Intro to Grad Studies class went well. I had a very neat experience in there that reminded me -again- of what it means to live in Louisiana. I have two black women in that class, Angela F and a woman who is a liberal arts MA named Katrina. Katrina thanked me for including bell hooks in the syllabus and commented on how she felt comfortable in the class. As she put it, she felt a lack of barriers due to race and gender. She said it was a unique experience at LSU. It reminded me that what is norm for me, radical/critical feminist pedagogy, is not the norm for most students at LSU.
I’m finally reading _How Like A Leaf_, which has been very fun. I was glad to hear Donna just clarify a few things. Like she says, people just aren’t reading. Carolyn, Ingrid and I should have read this book before we wrote our paper. Not that it would have changed anything, but ..we just shoulda.
Ok, this looks like a journal and not a blog. Here are some meaningless links to change that:
1. Where I go for song lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/
2. Robert Bigelow from Fem. Theory (we exchanged links; oh, this link is -not- meaningless. Sorry.)
-WHY- do I keep getting emails from Nigerians who want to give me money?
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