A quick referral this morning, since some of the things I’m incubating as ideas to talk about I can’t announce yet… http://nkjemisin.com/2013/06/continuum-goh-speech/ This is a link to NK Jemisin’s Continuum Guest of Honour speech where she uses Australian history as a metaphor and model for how “truth in reconciliation” could be used as a model [...]
Category Archive — Referrals
Referral: Lauren Berlant on Politics, Writing and Checking-In
This morning’s inspiring reading comes from Lauren Berlant’s excellent blog Supervalent Thought. She’s writing about writing, politics, exhaustion and the process of checking-in, of consultation, of that thing-we-do-to-keep-ourselves-sane when the overwhelming grind of structural oppression just keeps dredging up more and more material evidence of how much work there still is to do and we [...]
Referral: Policing the Intimate Space of Nations
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/04/sexism-border-personal-account This morning’s referral is a truly terrifying personal account by writer Clay Nikiforuk on her treatment by American border security agents due to being a woman carrying condoms. The telling conflation in this piece of open non-monogamy, adultery and sex work and the clearly misogynist attitudes and practices that conflate border security with ideological [...]
Referral: Anti-racist Dos and Don’ts for Perverts
Excellent post by m’colleague Andrea Zanin over at her blog Sex Geek about how to avoid/confront racist play and scenes in BDSM subculture.
Referral: Collaborative Learning Final Exam
Henry Jenkins shares the fascinating—not to mention fairly intimidating!—final exam from his recent Collaborative Learning class: http://shar.es/C2yzO
Referral: What We Use to Write
Excellent ponder on Jonathan Sterne’s blog about what we, as academics or other writers, use to write with when the proliferation of new digital tools and systems (such as project management software, cloud storage, appware) is tempting us in new workflow directions. Writing: Tools of the Trade I’ve been thinking about this a lot as [...]
Exercises for Marking Month Wrist Strain
This is a post for all of my academic colleagues who are currently in marking hell. Up until a year ago, I would always end up in a wrist brace come the end of term due to marking strain. With the combination of final term papers, exams, and the inevitable end-of-term influx of regular work—it’s [...]
Advice for Search Committees
Excellent post by Jonathan Sterne on Antenna with advice for those conducting search committees (useful read for job seekers too): http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/08/07/dear-search-committees/
What Price Access?
As my packed teaching schedule has now waned to a shrinking pile of making on my desk, I will be able to post a bit more. Looking forward to May and June since I won’t be teaching at all and will be able to finally focus on getting my book Non-Monogamies in the Public Sphere [...]
On Radio Silence and a Referral
Sometimes silence on a blog can mean good things. In this case it means I’m getting some work done on my book, on which I shall have to blog more extensively later. In the mean time, I will continue to post drips and drabs, maybe even occasionally a full post. Today’s drop in the bucket—courtesy of [...]
