Showing posts with label Bookery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bookery. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Thursday, February 08, 2018
Intimacy and Teens
I already ruined advertisements for my students with Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly, and now I want everyone to read this story of porn educators and how they're attempting to unpack and expose the sad, porn-inspired performativity of teenage sex. It's awful enough that we have no good sex ed, but worse that there's seemingly universal and facile access to bad porn:
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"It’s not surprising, then, that some adolescents use porn as a how-to guide. In a study that Rothman carried out in 2016 of 72 high schoolers ages 16 and 17, teenagers reported that porn was their primary source for information about sex — more than friends, siblings, schools or parents."
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Saturday, January 06, 2018
Of Samosas and Vaginas
I'm looking forward to learning--among other things--how to work with mobility/speech/hearing issues in discussion formats.
The books I suggested were Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and Carmen Machado's Her Body and Other Parties. I started talking about "The Husband Stitch" and couldn't shut up about vaginas for a quite a while :).
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Friday, January 05, 2018
A Project with Nu
While At was out discussing a podcast project with his erstwhile boss at the high school newspaper (also junior prom date; fire tweeter), Nu and I were at the antique store trying to find a small chair for the corner of the kitchen by the cookbooks' shelves.
We found it.
Bonus: It seems to be an actual kitchen chair covered in old-timey vinyl.
Bonus+: It cost $15 and once we'd thrown some (faux) sheepskin on it, was exactly what I'd envisioned.
Bonus ++: It turned out that an awesome student works there (her mother had recently purchased the store)
Bonus +++: Her mother and I were able to embarrass her by talking about all the ways in which she was awesome.
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Reading
Today is a sabotaged page
brutish
dusty
untrustworthy
on the edges of my brain
the hot animal knees
me, tears me,
sees me in tears
on the undercurrent of loss
in the flooding and
leaking
and catching
I can untie words heavy as air
as ephemeral; I am
a lookout, I am
eaten by the sea
(Note: I'm reading Truddi Chase's When Rabbit Howls and took on a new CASA case yesterday)
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brutish
dusty
untrustworthy
on the edges of my brain
the hot animal knees
me, tears me,
sees me in tears
on the undercurrent of loss
in the flooding and
leaking
and catching
I can untie words heavy as air
as ephemeral; I am
a lookout, I am
eaten by the sea
(Note: I'm reading Truddi Chase's When Rabbit Howls and took on a new CASA case yesterday)
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Thursday, November 09, 2017
Imprint
I am the serotinal student
clasping ideas between breaths
clamping lips around knowledge
i touch a thousand books
i read them all
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clasping ideas between breaths
clamping lips around knowledge
i touch a thousand books
i read them all
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
Monday, April 03, 2017
Saturday, January 14, 2017
Reader
The sky has never been a wall
it has no borders to speak of
it takes my troubles everywhere
It's true that light is rationed--
but it's abundant by my birthday
(though scant at Christmas)
So I can read a book all day,
All Day. In a cinnamon haze
my sweet, dusty feast
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it has no borders to speak of
it takes my troubles everywhere
It's true that light is rationed--
but it's abundant by my birthday
(though scant at Christmas)
So I can read a book all day,
All Day. In a cinnamon haze
my sweet, dusty feast
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Monday, January 02, 2017
Thursday, December 01, 2016
"Arrival Times"
After three different emails with that ambiguous subject heading, K and I finally got together with our respective human offspring to go see Ted Chiang's stupendous, extraordinary, etc., etc. sci-fi short story turned movie Arrival.
It broke me. It's intensely emotional and threw me for a loop (haha). And the small blazes of happiness were because At worked out and shared the reveal way before it happened and my Nu pointed out in the first few minutes that "Come back to me" was used as a refrain. Before she lost interest in the movie and took a tiny snooze.
Speaking of which, it's the first movie in a long, long time that I didn't slip a nap into. I even napped during--please don't tell my kids--The Force Awakens.
Although they've known all about it for years.
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It broke me. It's intensely emotional and threw me for a loop (haha). And the small blazes of happiness were because At worked out and shared the reveal way before it happened and my Nu pointed out in the first few minutes that "Come back to me" was used as a refrain. Before she lost interest in the movie and took a tiny snooze.
Speaking of which, it's the first movie in a long, long time that I didn't slip a nap into. I even napped during--please don't tell my kids--The Force Awakens.
Although they've known all about it for years.
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Thursday, September 08, 2016
The Ladies Finger
Don't know how I first came across it, but I love this blogzine--irreverent, honest, charming, and pathbreaking. It seems to be written and produced in India, but it's a great read for anyone with transnational feminist sensibilities.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Monday, January 04, 2016
Monday, December 28, 2015
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Christmas Quartet
The kids gave me presents that blew me away.
Nu brought home a healthy recipe book (standard school issue parent present) in November when we had no holiday wrapping paper yet. She made this to wrap her present in:
At got me this because my RBG tee was fraying:
Nu gave me an extra present (because she loves me best of all!). It's a chocolate countdown calendar! (And she teamed it with a bag of chocolate she got her dad to buy for her.)
And Nu kept her creativity going by making the puppies a play yard:
My four kids are simply the best.
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Friday, December 18, 2015
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