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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Off the grid
Hey, readers! I’ve missed you!
You may have noticed, but I’ve been a little off the grid lately. Tim and I moved in together this week, and that has been quite the adventure so far. AND, tomorrow through Sunday, we’re going on another adventure together to San Diego! So, I’ll be off the grid again until [...]
Now What?
I originally started this blog last summer as part of a grad school project. I wanted to join the feminist blogging community and study it. And I did. And then I wrote my thesis about it.
But I really had no vision beyond that project. I sort of figured if I liked keeping this blog [...]
Blogging as Activism in Cuba
See, blogging IS activism!
It’s nice to see stories like these about activism on the internet. It gives bloggers validaion instead of allowing us to be pigeonholed into the all-bloggers-do-is-spew-information-about-their-personal-lives-on-the-internet stereotype.
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Thesis update
For those of you who have been following the thesis debacle, I am ALMOST FINISHED with this thesis. The light is at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. I’ve been busy staying away from my computer for a while – catching up on books, poking around other cool internet sites, shopping, hanging out [...]
Literacy AND Rhetoric in the Feminist Blogging Community!
This is part of a series of posts about rhetoric and feminism. I’ll be writing these responses every week as part of my graduate class about Topics in Rhetoric this semester, and I welcome any and all responses!
I’m reading Kenneth Burke’s idea of Dramatism correctly, it seems he is subscribing to Shakespeare’s idea that [...]
End the R-Word
Last week in my Theory of Rhetoric class, I left very upset over an argument that ensued over the use of the word “retarded.” It was brought up in one of my classmates’ responses inspired by Rahm Emanuel’s recent comments. One of my other classmates actually said, upon hearing all of this: “You know, I [...]
Research and Credibility in Rhetoric
This is part of a series of posts about rhetoric and feminism. I’ll be writing these responses every week as part of my graduate class about Topics in Rhetoric this semester, and I welcome any and all responses!
To be totally honest, I did not find this week’s readings as fascinating as last week’s. I think [...]
Feminist Bloggers and Discourse Communities
This is the beginning of a series of posts about rhetoric and feminism. I’ll be writing these responses every week as part of my graduate class about Topics in Rhetoric this semester, and I welcome any and all responses!
This week’s reading was an excellent introduction to rhetoric. I found the definitions of terms and, particularly, [...]
IRB Approval
A little while ago, I promised a few of you that I would write about the entire process-turned-fiasco that was the application for IRB approval for my thesis project. While I was very upset at the time, I am now feeling much better about this, but I still feel the need to talk about what [...]
