P.S. Lagniappe: honestly, for recruiting, I would also turn the 300 level introductions into more focused courses on current topics. What hip people now do at the 300 level are things like this: – Latino Presence in the US (NOT “Spanish for heritage speakers” focusing on spelling and grammar for people who speak but haven’t learned to … More Not said
At what point and how? Male perspective. Broken male perspective. Women don’t talk. Transparency, unity, strategic planning. We needed a dean who would NOT cover for an incompetent or disengaged chair, or collude with chairs on personal agendas. ¿Qué quieres hacer? Domeneck. Axé.
What you need is discipline, structure, and freedom. What we have is oppression, disorganization, and stricture. This is very, very important. It is what I got from Reeducation. Everyone has always said I was too scientific and organized, but actually I am quite laid-back. They also thought I was too focused. But look. And by … More Cómo trabajar
This is a draft/outline, and it will morph. This goes to the What is a Scholar posts. Axé. The way to start: every bad academic decision has had to do with looking out for metrics and following career advice. (Examples.)I had scholarly advice for myself that often went in another direction (do One way to … More On metrics, voice, and academic advice
Now that I am speaking so openly, and feeling much more like a living person than a voice from beyond the grave, I might as well continue. The really difficult thing about being in Spanish in my department has been that French meets, so French knows what it is doing and knows what the university … More Not on Facebook
Read Melinda Cooper on Epstein and patriarchy. Cándido Gamboa, business and the family, owning all the women. This, too, is a place to start. There is also a connection to the university: capturing a resource, a state asset, to use for the family business. “Just as Epstein wanted to close off all escape routes to … More Daddy: on Cándido Gamboa and Epstein
Today I yelped in pain all day on Facebook and it seems to have helped. It all comes down to: I can’t allow myself to serve infirm entities, or sacrifice identity for them (my mother, BJA, to some extent ISB, RSA, Xica, other minor instances, but my mother, Barry, and I guess Terry Mayers, come … More Voice
Clarifying even more: you’re an American, and you have a Ph.D., and you speak Spanish, and we hate all of that, and it hurts us personally, and you need to try to understand that. THIS was the message and I, sincere to a fault, tried to understand it, allow for it, heal it. In the … More Today
I need to develop thought on catalanisme, Catalan nationalism, its liberating and repressive dimensions. This, and the way brasilidade is articulated and sold (especially in Bahia), would be interesting points of comparison to cajunismo (by which I mean to indicate not Cajun culture tout court/altogether, but the fetishization of it that has been developed and … More Sobre nacionalismos
A reminder. A Capricorn life is work and doing heavy lifting for others, without gratitude. But love and esthetics are important and must be honored. With Gemini rising, it is important to choose the discomfort of concentration. Do not let other people dissipate your life, and do not allow them to interrupt work. Gemini rising … More That astrological reading
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