I just want to take a moment to pause and mourn two important people, one, a feminist icon, and one important to the issues of race and pop culture. I don’t really know enough about either to create a really comprehensive blog post, but here are two excellent posts, one on Michael Jackson via Feministing.com: [...]
Small Strokes
cutting down oppression one small stroke at a time
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Jun 25
Literacy Interview: Proposal
What follows is the proposal for my interview about literacy practices among feminist bloggers. Any one else want to participate? Any suggestions for improvement? Project Proposal I am fascinated by technological literacy and how social media, blogging in particular, is becoming the new face of activism. People are using social media to write and distribute [...]
Jun 25
Anti-Feminism?
Tonight, I was going to blog some thoughts about Toni Morrison, identity, and otherness. I might still if I have a chance, but tonight I am particularly interested in a conversation that ensued today on Twitter. Jay Breeds, (@objectifychicks) started sort of poking fun at my feminism, so I naturally started poking around his/her profile [...]
Jun 24
Interview?
OK, so here is where this project might get really cool or really tricky… or both. I want to combine this blog with my literacy class. I would like to research (via interviews) what literacy means within the context of the community of feminist bloggers. I need to write the proposal for the research by [...]
Jun 22
What makes a good woman, part 2
What follows is the introduction to my paper for this class. It is what is called a “quest paper,” meaning my thesis is a question that will be answered by using specific examples from our readings in class, as well as any other research I want to include. The professor wanted a narrative before the [...]
Jun 18
When did you lose your gravity?
For Eden Abigail Trooboff, the loss of gravity happened the first time she felt her body in relation to a man: …But I was wearing a pink dress with a big V in back and I felt too female to be a child. He danced extravagantly with all three of us, my sister, Anna, and [...]
Jun 17
Response to "The Gravity of Pink"
I was originally attracted to this essay because of the title. Over the past few months, I have had several discussions with friends and participated in a few interviews and conversations about feminism, and immediately I knew that this essay would be about feminism. On the first reading, I was fascinated by Eden Abigail Trooboff’s [...]
Jun 16
What makes a "good woman"?
Let’s start with a story and a few questions. All comments welcome. My first teaching job was in a very small town. I was far away from my friends and family, living by myself, and feeling as if I didn’t fit in at all. I made friends with a few of the other teachers, but [...]
Jun 16
About the Small Strokes Project
I believe that “small strokes fell big oaks.” In my case, these small strokes are most often strokes of a pen or of a keyboard, and the big oaks social issues – feminism, equal rights for all, etc. Here, I will be blogging about civil rights as a whole, sometimes in relation to my work [...]
