Time for another 15 minutes (minimum) of writing, so I start getting back into the habit of doing so… The 2015 Parliament of the World’s…
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What we call home
We have moved! So much stuff happening; so many errands on my metaphorical plate! The photos are from before we moved in. Currently we’re still…
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 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 ReadingSlightly groggy book review… ish… ness…
I have a nasty cold. It is no fun. I intensely dislike feeling like my head has been stuffed full of cotton wool and my…
Continue ReadingPoetry is Not A Luxury & Mighty Be Our Powers
Closely examining our matrifocal past and present offers a solid basis from which to theorize a possible healthier future — one not damagingly based in…
Continue ReadingFascinatingly more on matrifocal societies
Both Sanday (reviewed by me here and here) and Du are anthropologically trained ethnographers researching indigenous societies. As previously noted, their work offers explicit epistemological…
Continue ReadingRefusing Standard Masculinities
The following was part of a subsection in my comps essay which was titled “Theorizing Patriarchy Past & Present,” which performed said theorizing via a…
Continue ReadingA History for Women and a Feminism for Everyone
…and now back to my comps essay book reviews! :) A more sweeping view of women throughout history, including both their loss of power and…
Continue ReadingThe culinary Hallowe’en extravaganza! pt. 2
The next elements of the Halloween dinner that we’ll review are the poison apple dip, and zombie guts! The guts are startlingly easy — I…
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