There’s an odd kind of alienation that comes with doing sessional teaching. Because there is no provision for prep time built into the contracts—other than the suggestion that your overall salary, in theory, includes the time you spend before and after the contract devoted to the class—you can find yourself working 2–3 months on a [...]
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Hegemonic Intimacies
I am just reviewing an excellent article by Guillermo Avila-Saavedra for my Research Methods class and it got me thinking. The article (actually, an ICA conference proceeding) is called “The Black Working-Class Lesbian and Other Absences: A Holistic Approach to Queer Media Studies,” and is about how queer media studies often don’t live up to [...]
