I Another book I would like to reread is Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo. I think of it now because I have realized that academic writing is easier than blogging. I started blogging to jump-start academic writing, but their relationship seems to have reversed itself. This might be a sign of success. My scholarly texts would … More Jazz Poem, Voodoo Aesthetics
“Fighting that bears no fruit” is what Nezua dislikes about lo académico. It is the best concise diagnosis of the problem I have seen. It took me about five years of professordom to finally understand: these people want to complain and struggle, but they do not want to resolve problems. There is also the penchant … More “Fighting That Bears No Fruit”
Not yet being a Bodhisattva, I do not always feel one hundred percent sisterly. Some days I have extreme difficulty being nice to certain well-heeled women I know who are very proud of their so-called independence and authority but are actually running dogs of patriarchy (as Mao might have said). One such informs me now … More Patriarchal Women II
I I went to graduate school because the woman at the career center said that looking for a real job was a full time job, and that getting one would take about six months of full time looking. This gave me great pause, since it meant I would have to spend the last six months … More Des mauvais grisgris académiques
For ridiculousness, one of my favorite academic experiences of all time was the telephone call I received from a senior person in Women’s Studies who announced that I was the least oppressed person on the faculty: no husband, no children, not a woman of color, not disabled, not gay. As the least oppressed person, it … More Patriarchal Women I
Monday was Blogging for Sex Education Day and I did not know, but I know now, and my favorite post on this topic is from Jack’s Non-Blog. It says in part that [s]ex has, for many people, an emotional impact that is rarely discussed logically in any form, and is normally reduced to saccharine conceptions … More Blogging for Sex Education
I have very little knowledge of Lacan and cannot comment seriously on him, but observe this: Between man and love, there is woman; between man and woman, there is a world; betwen man and the world, there is a wall. What is at stake in a serious love relationship between a man and a woman … More Jacques Lacan
Why does writing appear to be so closely imbricated with managing the self? This post does not answer that question. I Now I have made a small amount of progress on this paper. I have discovered a way to redefine it, at least for myself, so that it is less intimidating: I will think of … More On Writing: Notes
Ralph Ellison and Octavio Paz? I am not sure this would work, but it occurs to me. Read this and think about it: Ralph Ellison and alienation: It would seem an obvious pairing. After all, he won his initial acclaim for extending the most fashionable affectation of the 1950s onto black America. Yet he may … More Dissertation Topic
I would like to repeat these words by Martin Duberman, who I really do not think wrote them to defend a false universalism: For women, the common enemy remains the patriarchy. For blacks and Latinos, it is still white racism. For gay people, heterosexual oppression. None of these movements function effectively when the focus is … More On Individualism
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