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In which I tell full proffies to learn to behave themselves on the internet
I left PLANET, which is the planning educator’s listserv, after an incident that involved what I thought was a really interesting debate about Harvard students walking out on Greg Mankiw with Randy...
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I’m officially tired of the “Things you shouldn’t say to Whomever” lists online
I really do understand the desire to forestall the rudeness of racist questions–I really do–in the original entries in “Things you shouldn’t say” genre. And in some ways, the effect of these have been...
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Feminist reading lists from Feminismxianity
Feminist theology and A compilation of feminist reads from Twitter (some things I haven’t read! Awesome!) Get reading, my emancipatory friends!
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Mark Edmundson on campus rape
I’ve been reading through Mark Edmundson’s Why Teach this week, and this paragraph caught my eye: Colleges are even leery of disciplining guys who have committed sexual assault, or assault plain and...
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#ReadUrbanandPlanningWomen2014 entry #13: Ella Howard
This week’s entry is definitely in the “urban” rather than in the “planning” component of my challenge, as Ella Howard is a historian at Armstrong Atlantic State University. I read and used her book in...
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Coates and the case for reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates published an excellent explanation of the case for reparations to African Americans in the Atlantic. Here is the original article, which is excellent, except for the quote from...
View ArticleComforting the afflicted
I’m rather gratified to see a backlash aimed at Seth MacFarlane, as I find his brand of humor odious from the get-go.I’ve been through this nonsense before with Andrew Dice Clay, who was a good deal...
View ArticleEveryone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do...
Disclaimer: cultural critique of various tropes about men and women is not about you personally, even if you enjoy watching things with those tropes in them. Mmmkay? We will discover things in this...
View ArticleBarbara Jordan’s 1976 DNC speech , Black history, Women’s history, LGBTQ...
With HRC’s presumptive nominee status, people have been remember Shirley Chisolm, who was the first woman to run for president (in 1972). These conversations, and the upcoming convention, have me...
View ArticleJune Jordan’s I Must Become A Menace to My Enemies
Maria Rosales mentioned this poem on Facebook, and it strikes me as just the thing for a day like today, where we are somehow supposed to go on despite the fact that the people who hate us do not want...
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