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The troublemaker as a feminist killjoy (or an unhappy queer)?
I came across this cartoon in a recent New Yorker today: Here is one reason (among many others) that I love this cartoon: As someone who persistently challenges the status quo and asks a lot (and I...
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Once more with feeling: Aristotle remix (blog mash-up 2, part 2)
For some reason, I am drawn to musical references. First, mash-ups and now remixes. Why? Not sure. Last week I finally got my copy of Sara Ahmed’s latest book, The Promise of Happiness. I’m very...
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Sara Ahmed and The Promise of Happiness
For the past several weeks, my queering desire class has been reading Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness. Here are my class summaries for our discussions of Ch. 2 on the feminist killjoy and Ch. 3...
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Beside: Photographer/Photo/Image
As I mentioned the other day, I’m experimenting on Tumblr with combining pictures that I’m taking with compelling quotations and questions from my research. Yesterday, I posted an image with passages...
View Articlethe trouble with happiness
For a few years now, I’ve been thinking about (and writing and teaching about) happiness and it’s limits…as a concept, goal and demand placed on most of us to smile (or die). Much of this work is...
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I started working on this entry yesterday morning. At that point, I planned to title it, “Pushing my limits or just my buttons?”. As I tried to write, I struggled with whether or not to keep reading...
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