One of my favorite books is Normal People by a writer called Sally Rooney. I always feel the need to preface my recommendation with the fact that it does lack queer representation and the primary abusive characters is cast as one of the only people of color in the TV adaptation (I will add, though, that this is one of the best book-to-tv/film adaptations I have seen in a long time, and I’m a strong believer that the book is always better). On its surface Normal People is just a pair of young, straight white people fucking (can I say …
Month: February 2022
Bringing Feminist Theory Home
Here is a small excerpt from Sara Ahmed’s “Bringing Feminist Theory Home.” I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my relationship to feminism and academia. I always return to this particular section to stimulate some thought around this. I have too much whirling around my head at the moment to say much more about this in a cohesive way so I am leaving it here for others to ponder with and fall down the existential rabbit hole of navigating personal politics.
Why are you here?
Hostos Community College,A.A. 2008-2011 My first few weeks at Hostos my mom and I started calling it “the socialist republic of Hostos.” I got my teeth cleaned for the first time in a decade. My son got his teeth cleaned for the first time in his life. I met with a case worker to get my public assistance back. She taught me what to say, what deadlines were coming up, what deadlines were the same year to year. different person helped me get health insurance. I met with a paralegal to help with housing applications. Got a free metro card. Got …
The Blind Men and the Elephant
I was talking through some of the internal choques I felt after class on Monday – and my mom sent me this and reminded me to stop running into the side yelling “it’s a wall!” Not sure this is helpful to anyone else – but wanted to share.
Open v. Access
…because you don’t need access to something that is open – right? This open v ______ (the blank is mercurial because I am having a hard time defining open in a static way so the opposite is escaping me) has been rolling around in my mind since last class – so I am going to attempt to get some of my questions/thoughts/tensions out here for potential conversation. These thoughts all stem from my other class where we are reading among other things Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich which is essentially a book about her having low-wage jobs and trying …
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