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Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

By ~LS~ On June 30, 2004 · Add Comment · In Pedagogy, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Race

I decided that I didn’t like the way that Julia Wood is handling race in her textbook for Gender and Comm. Actually, well, I decided that years ago. So I’m asking the students to read Peggy MacIntosh’s article, “White Privilege.” It’s very old, but still useful. I surfed and found some links to the text and, so, here they are:

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack — A much abbreviated form that is somewhat depoliticized and that is probably more palatable for general audiences.

Here’s a better excerpt from Vanderbilt and the one I used in class.

Another useful site: WMST-L‘s discussion list archive on the article.

If you want the whole paper, you can buy it from Wellesley.

Then, I found a cool site on 10 codes for the ethics of being white in hip hop. They are old standards, but cool [...]

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Farenheit 9/11

By ~LS~ On June 28, 2004 · Add Comment · In Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Michael Moore, Movies, Politics, War

I thought Michael Moore’s “Farenheit 9/11” was rather brilliant. Although it dragged in some parts, it impressed because of the way that he managed to present cinematically a potetially boring, text-centered issue. Most of what he shows comes from documents that have been in the public domain for some time. He weaves these together in a dramatic blitz of information with his signature humor. There wasn’t much in the film I hadn’t heard about or read about previously but it was touching and hilarious. I mean, shit, we’ve all forgotten the pre-9/11 W. The man who golfed more than he presided. The most hysterical scene was showing W.’s immediate reaction to 9/11. Moore also slowed down pretty much ever facial expression we had of W. so that it looked like he was either incredibly sly, devious, and self-interested or he was incredibly retarded.

It still didn’t convince Steve, [...]

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Gender and Comm

By ~LS~ On June 8, 2004 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: Gender, Pedagogy, Teaching

Skool? Sucked. I can’t even begin to say why.

If I complain about my students and one of them reads my blog (ha!), I could get sued.

Wadsworth bumped up editions of J Woods’ Gendered Lives book after I ordered the friggen desk copy. *eyeroll* I don’t even want to begin going into my rant about that book.

I have half the football team in my class. They greet each other by popping their sugarbowl rings (respect knuckles) into each other, like some sort of migrated ass-slapping ritual. So, ten percent of the population is football players and twenty percent is black. As Arsenio said some ten years ago, “hmmmmmm.” Well, this brings up a whole thicket of issues that I must deal with and I wonder how many of them will surface, I wonder how many of them I will force to surface, I wonder how many of them [...]

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Prickly Paradigm Press

By ~LS~ On June 7, 2004 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Books, Haraway, Sex, Voxygen, What I Did Today

Even if Alanis’ new record sucks pretty bad, her record names the chaos in my life. It’s only so-called.

Rolling stone gave Avril Lavigne a fucking 3.5 stars for her latest album. What is the deal.

I need to wean myself of surfing off of Netscape. It’s so mind-numbingly boring. Good god, I’ve read just about everything on their stupid pull “what’s new” pull-down box. At least three times, in fact. They never add anything new to those cheesy what’s new files.

I bought a web domain and web hosting capabilities. I named my domain www.voxygen.net. I’ve camped on www.voxygen.com for years and years. For a long time the name was registered but undeveloped. I figured the owner would bail from it since he or she just sat on it. But…now it’s a redirect page for a retarded wireless phone company. Why they want MY name for [...]

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