Toxic: on race, gender, and resilient labor on social media
This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. Concepts like “the male gaze” and “controlling images” are Gender Studies 101 material: they’re the basic terms in which many feminists understand the media’s oppression of white women (in the case of the male…
From “London Calling”‘s cold-war nuclear apocalypse to “NWO”‘s new world order
I’m teaching a music & society class this semester, and it’s focused on punk, hip hop, and disco. I’ve put together a set of songs (loosely within those genres and their progeny) that focus on the last decades of the cold…
To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes
To the cismen philosophy majors in my feminist philosophy classes: Yay! I’m so glad you’re here–both because that means you are interested in feminism, but also because you bring lots of philosophical expertise with you. Also, feminist philosophy has a…
it’s her factory: new site for Robin M. James
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CFP for the “The Others of Philosophy”: DePaul Philosophy Graduate Conference (I’m Keynoting)
I am delivering the keynote at this year’s DePaul Philosophy Graduate Conference. The theme is “Philosophy on Trial: The Others of Philosophy.” The CFP is below, and submissions are open until January 1 2014. I would LOVE to see some…
Bodies & affect but no feminist/queer/critical race theorists? Must be a philosophy conference.
I think it’s relatively uncontroversial to claim that feminist philosophy, feminist theory (which is basically feminist philosophy done outside philosophy departments, so this includes lots of continental feminists), queer theory, the critical philosophy of race, and postcolonial theory are responsible…
Visual v Musical Obscenity
X-Post from my tumblr: so, i grew up in Mapplethorpe-trial/Larry-Flynt-era Cincinnati. visual obscenity was like my hometown’s “thing.” maybe that’s the reason i’ve never really found it that interesting, philosophically. porn is always an interesting issue to teach in feminist…
Check out my tumblr (reminder)
Just a note to remind everyone that I’ve started posting shorter-form, less formalized thoughts, ideas, links, quotes, etc., over at my new tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty.tumblr.com.Here is a link to a post collecting some of my thoughts on a few things music…
I started a tumblr.
its her factory now has an associated tumblr, itsherfactoryitsherduty. I’m using the tumblr as a short-form notebook, mainly for ideas too short for the blog but longer than 140/280 characters.
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