On teaching the day after the election
I’ve never really dreaded my job before. I’ve been more and less excited to teach, of course. Handing back bad grades or …
Reckoning the leaves of change
Today I walked around campus as it was snowing leaves of change. Yellow and orange flutters signaling a shift in season, so …
The Cubs won! And other things on my mind.
“How many innings are in baseball?” “Why does baseball take so long?” “A RAIN DELAY?” “Will this thing ever end?” Mr. T: …
My patronus is a class of budding feminists
Driving through pea soup on the way to work this morning, you could have convinced me that dementors had taken over Sacramento. …
Talking feminism and controlling my face. Kinda.
We’d just finished watching the eight minute trailer for the documentary Miss Representation, a film about harmful gender stereotypes against women, and …
Infuriating: TIME puts “feminist” on the list of potential words to ban in 2015
Image used with permission from gratisography.com In my university classes the last couple weeks, we’ve been discussing issues of equity and discrimination. …
How to be a Woman: An accessible and funny discussion of the F-word
“You can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly inquiring, ‘And are the men doing this, …
5 things I hated about the movie Gravity
Accurate description of Gravity: A 90 minute anxiety attack. Thank you “Funny or Die” for these alternate title movie posters. I won …
Is shunning make-up the key to gender equity at work?
A few weeks ago, I left the house and headed to Aaron Brothers to claim my insanely overpriced but very pretty custom …
Cliteracy
New York artist Sophia Wallace promotes what she calls “cliteracy.” I don’t blog about sex. Mostly because it’s none of your damn …