I recently had something startlingly nice happen to me! There’s a professor I had in the past who’s a noted and accomplished author. She’s got…
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Published again, yay! ;)
I’m published again! It’s a very small thing this time, but once again it came from the heart. In the gorgeously illustrated She Appears! Encounters…
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Some years ago I had a friend with whom I lunched on a weekly basis. At that time he was on a job team that…
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I don’t usually use trigger warnings in my writing, mostly because I don’t expect that many people read my blog, and those that do have…
Continue ReadingThoughts on V. Shiva’s “Staying Alive”
I’m reading Vandana Shiva’s Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, & Development for an on-line class on Ecofeminism which I’m TAing. The following are two comments made…
Continue Reading“Toward A Queer Ecofeminism” by Greta Gaard
The following is a quick review of an article read for the Ecofeminism class in which I am a TA — yay! I’d like to…
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Finally had a bit of a breakthrough on my dissertation proposal — hallelujah! Working now on getting a dissertation committee Chair, and figuring out all…
Continue ReadingThe unexamined dissertation: not worth writing?
As some who read my blog may know already, I’m currently struggling with the process of writing my dissertation proposal. Despite writing being one of…
Continue ReadingA Paean to the Librarian
My dissertation proposal research continues apace – sometimes stutteringly slowly, other times with a swiftness and surety which reassures me that I’m on the right…
Continue ReadingWoman in the Shaman’s Body
The apparently overwhelmingly powerful need to control women which some men appear to have is painfully expressed yet again in a form which is recorded…
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