It’s amazing to read her memoir on Gamergate in a post-Trump world.
I’m still noodling around with my classroom, but I’m really digging the current set-up I have for my walls and blackboard configuration. As you can see, I’ve got my timeline set up in English and Spanish, and had one of my English Language Learning students write out all the titles of the board’s different sections in Spanish.
The Educator Confidence Report is reporting some dire news. This came to me via Yahoo! Finance, where the reporting centered on the role of teacher salaries in creating and fostering strong teachers. One of the big issues I’ve talked about on the radio show is the broken promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness. How can we expect teachers to offer the emotional and intellectual support necessary to be the best educator possible when they have to also worry about their living expenses?
I wish the report had gone into the disproportionate impact this issue has on teachers of color.
Just when you start to doubt people are reading your work! Shout-out to Dr. Punde on producing such awesome scholarship.
Pande, Rukmini. "Squee from the margins: Investigating the operations of racial/cultural/ethnic identity in media fandom." PhD diss., Tesis de doctorado, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 2017. Available as a PDF here.
I'm experimenting with an assignment where students can use Canva to use pictures to share quotes and reactions to the readings.
Read Morecurling them around i hold their bodies in obscene embrace thinking of everything but kinship. collards and kale strain against each strange other away from my kissmaking hand and the iron bedpot. the pot is black. the cutting board is black, my hand, and just for a minute the greens roll black under the knife, and the kitchen twists dark on its spine and i taste in my natural appetite the bond of live things everywhere.
“Maybe you are a crazy woman, but you’d rather embrace madness than amnesia.”
“I’m committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive... you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.”
“But I’m not here to fight. I’m here to win.”
“Run away from the subscriber some time in November last, a Mulatto woman of a middle size, though slim; she has the appearance of a moth upon her cheeks; her hands very remarkable as she cannot straiten her fingers”
Originally shared this to my Facebook page; Gena Lopez christened Free Fanny a "Afrodiaspora cripplepunk heroine," in part because the "appearance of a moth upon her cheeks" suggests that she might have had lupus. Psyche Williams-Forson zeroed in on the description of Fanny's clothing, suggesting that Fanny's dress might mean she was a mulatto, and that her having run away from the home but not the farm could mean she was a house worker.
