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• Commented on This is a Feminist Issue Because... Women's Studies Programs Renamed "Gender Studies", Radical Politics Still Ruining The World
  Anna, When I first started reading your blog I thought it was going to go in one direction but it ended in another. The direction I thought it was going to in was a critique on the GWSS department and...
• Posted wrap it up to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  1. Resistance is about pushing against, pushing back, walking away, questioning, collective outrage, and silence. That is it. Only kidding people, this list goes on and on. The definition cannot be restricted and if it is then I would hope...
• Posted Walkers, bikers and busers to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  First I wanted to start with a series of photos that show my state in which I am while writing my last blog. I am pretty sure this is what I look like every time I write. I remember someone...
• Posted Docile Patriots: Jon Stewart's take on it... to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cScary Plotterwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis In the article Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots Paur and Rai they have a...
• Posted Queer this lady gaga: abject? to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  Okay.... I have to admit I am a fan of lady gaga. This interview reveals sort of why I am. She is a freak.... a proud, self proclaiming freak and I love it. Thought I would put it forward...
• Posted Annotated Bibliography #3: my resistance to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  First source: Prostitute My own work created in 2007. It is hard for me to summarize the source, since it is a piece of art. Please allow for this space to be a time to look and examine it...
• Posted Ballistic Bodies to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  Since discussing Puar's Queer Times, Queer Assemblages the image of the ballistic bodies as weapons has been in my mind. Also, while doing my comments for the blog I came across one of Remy's entries and it inspired me...
• Posted Men for women rights! Finally. to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  I can't believe I didn't think of this! It was right there, hanging off my body the whole time: boobs, they will get men involved. I mean, all I have to do is objectify my body *a little* to...
• Posted Queering the system: is it possible? to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  One thing that has been an underlining issue I have had all semester in every class is this idea of working within the system to change the system. I just do not buy it. I find so many flaws in...
• Posted A reading from death to life: to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  I touched on this a little bit when I presented on my topic. Death or life, what sounds more desirable? Can I even claim that one is preferred over the other? I am not sure about that but I...
• Posted Annotaited Biblography: A conversation to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  Annotated Bibliography: a conversation This time I wanted my annotate bibliography to revolve around a recent conversation I had with my roommate. First, allow me to set up my living situation. I live in North Minneapolis in an intentional community...
• Posted Zack Johnson to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  I found this to be extremely interesting to say the least. Found it problematic as well... Insensitive to transmen. Insensitive to women. It is loaded with good stuff. What do y'all think?...
• Posted Annotated Bibliography: Resistance to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  Hir: slam poetry "Hir"- Poem @ transgendered. Perf. Harris, Alysia, Shamayleh, Aysha. youtube: 2009, Film. This spoken word was written and performed by two young women: Alysia Harris and Aysha El Shamayleh. It is a poem that tells a personal...
• Posted The Power and Resistance of Queer Theory to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  'Where there is power there is resistance, and yet, or rather consequently, this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power...' (Foucault in Sullivan 42) Michel Foucault and Nikki Sullivan argue that resistance does not...
• Posted the beginnings of resistance to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  First things first--defining the term resistance: 1. The act, on the part of persons, of resisting, opposing, or withstanding 2. Organized covert opposition to an occupying or ruling power; It was interesting for me to find out that when we...
• Posted our desire to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  As I sat watching the documentary on Butler and why reading the articles and the pervious blogs, I cannot help but wonder about our desire to know the author. I mean, I get--we want to connect, to understand, to complicate,...
• Posted you go girl! to Queering Theory: Fall 2009
  I want to comment more but wanted to get it up for everyone to see!...
• Commented on an issue
  tara.... thank you. Stephanie... right on about case studies helping us thinking about things we haven't before!...
• Posted an issue to Multiracial Feminist Politics and Policies
  First to echo what others are saying about the class-- I am excited about this class.  It seems as if this is one of the only classes that will be a breath of fresh air.  Now on to the good...
• Commented on I'm in.
  not to worry, inspiration will be coming your way..... make sure to hold on. :-)...
• Posted NO! to Sexual Politics of the Hip Hop Generation
  Todays class of group presentations was great. I especially was blown away by the video "NO!". The first 6 minutes were quite powerful. It was a hard reality to compare the popular hip hop videos along side testimony of sexual...
• Posted thank you to Sexual Politics of the Hip Hop Generation
  I have got to say a huge thank you to all of you that shared your stories with us over the last couple class periods and through out the year. I really appreciate it and it adds so much to...
• Posted Who is Sara Baartman? by Dede Hunt to Sexual Politics of the Hip Hop Generation
• Posted Enough with the blaming or pointing at the ‘other’ to Sexual Politics of the Hip Hop Generation
  This statement/question blows my mind. As if we can point our finger at those little birds and say fly away...fly away, free yourself from the cage that holds you in? Does a woman have a choice whether or not she...
• Posted Life and Debt to Discussing Race, Class, & Gender
  It was amazing to me to watch Life and Debt.... this was not the first time watching it for me. I actually have seen it now three times and each time I am left with a sense of injustice and...
• Posted existing to GWSS 3102 Fall 2008
  http://www.autospies.com/images/2-25-05/man-in-bed.jpg "When women sense that they are not being assessed sexually--for example, as we age, or if we are disabled--it may feel like we no longer exist." (Bordo 173)...
• Posted good old judith to GWSS 3102 Fall 2008
  The sentence: "If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is a as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns...
• Posted why the abundance? to GWSS 3102 Fall 2008
  I gathered that Narayan thought it was important to look at how food has been a vessel for colonization but doesn’t necessarily mean that by eating at an ethnic restaurant that you are perpetuating imperialism. She critiques that part...
• Posted chapter 2 to GWSS 3102 Fall 2008
  Uma Narayan in chapter takes a look at Daly’s piece on Sati. Her point of the chapter is to show how western views of ‘thrid world traditions’ creates a colonialist stance. One of her major points is that in Daly’s...
• Posted third world woman to GWSS 3102 Fall 2008
  I believe one part of the "area of controversy" for the "third world woman" is that it allows "first" world women to not analyze their own life and experiences. By analyzing the "third" world woman and her short comings it...