This past week, I had the good fortune of being able to not only attend, but present my paper on Literacy in the Feminist Blogging Community at my first-ever international conference. The Contemporary Women’s Writing Network conference in San Diego was a great place to connect with fantastic women and those who write about women. [...]
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I Advocate Feminism
It came to my attention during my blogging break, courtesy of Emily Heroy – Founder of the Gender Across Borders blog and fellow Equality 101 writer – and Liza Donnelly – Cartoonist Extraordinaire – (If you’re not at least following these ladies on Twitter or reading their work, you should be. Now!) [...]
Equality 101 is back!
After much planning and hard work, Equality 101 is back up and running! Go check us out! We have great new writers and content planned for you to enjoy.
http://equality101.net
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“I wish there was more time.”
Story time!
My freshman Honors English teacher and speech team coach, Mr. John Hires, sat us all down on the last day of school my freshman year and just looked at us. He sighed a deep sigh and put his hands on the table, arms outstretched. He said: “I wish there was more time. I wish I [...]
Miss Ashley and the Students of the Round Table
Roundtable discussions are my absolute, most favorite thing to do with students in my English class, and the last roundtable of the year always makes me a little sad.
I’m sure most of you can figure out what a roundtable discussion is, but for those of you who don’t know, it’s an activity during which I [...]
Doing Better Things
Last night, the English department at my college treated the Masters students to dinner as a congratulations for finishing our thesis papers and the program. It was a really wonderful evening, and it really didn’t set it until last night that I’ve finished my Master’s. It feels good, but it’s also bittersweet. I will miss [...]
Recommended Reading: 4-18-2010
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The Impact of Twitter on Feminism: Its Facilitations & Limitations by Emily Heroy
Feminism makes it way all across the internet–in universities all over the world, news articles posted online, in forums, on [...]
Female Teachers and Female Students’ Math Anxiety, Part 2
Recently, I posted some thoughts here and at Equality 101 about a study regarding female teachers passing their anxiety toward math to their female students, and my thoughts were met with some dispute, both by Veronica at Girl w/Pen! and in the comments of my post. Makomk in the comments of my post and [...]
Equality 101
I’d like to introduce to you a brand new blog for teachers and activists! It’s called Equality 101, and yours truly is a contributing writer in the company of some seriously awesome teacher-writer-researchers!
Of course, I will still be posting education-related posts here, but I will include much of what you find here over there. So [...]
