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Your Gender/Identity Post for the Day

Hello, Pride Month! African homophobia does not exist, nor does European homophobia, Asian homophobia or South American homophobia. Acts of homophobia occur in each of these spaces. …African conceptions of homosexuality are shaped by factors including nationalism, globalisation, migration, ethnicity, and religion. They are shaped by labour practices and national politics, by participation in sports [...]

Limited Hours of Productivity

This is why, in a 9-5 job, it can be next to impossible to pursue other interests and develop oneself. It’s hard enough to be “on top” of things in the evenings, let alone super-concentrate on any productivity: Grad school is a marathon not a sprint, and one of the big reasons people burn out [...]

Desigirls!

(via Feminist Review, where you can read what the heck it’s about, because it’s early and I have to go to work)

On Not Getting It

Been a while since I posted anything, though I’ve had a number of things I’ve wanted to share. But, this post struck me today as a thoroughly apt observation: You Just Don’t Get It John Stuart Mill says this …the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole [...]

Applied Linguistic Anthropology

…on a feminist website. (Well, sort of, it’s more just etymology with a cultural dimension, but anyway.) I love her run-through of trying to explain “Damn” and “pardon my french” to a non-native speaker. And the concluding paragraphs: …if there are words and phrases that I use, but haven’t actually thought about — idioms that [...]

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