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.
This is a collection of rudimentary thoughts from last night’s Feminist Philosophy class. We read Gayle Rubin’s “The Traffic in Women” and Luce Irigaray’s “Women on the Market.” Both of these are decades-old analyses of the “exchange of women”. Rubin…
My “Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen” piece is part of the Public/Private group show at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. It runs from 18 January-21 February. Here‘s the link to the gallery’s page about the show. I’ll be at the…
Here I rework my earlier reading of Taio Cruz’s “Hangover” to show how neoliberalism actively cultivates transgression, producing what I call a “faux-gression” that gets fed back into neoliberal means of production, augmenting privilege, hegemony, etc. I cut this from…
As always, this is pretty raw, first-draft stage material. I welcome your feedback 🙂 Thanks to everyone who has read and given feedback on part 1 of this series! The continued outcry and worry about Rihanna and her album clearly…
–> There is an article in today’s Inside Higher Ed that argues philosophy, as a discipline, needs to be less insular and more interdisciplinary. I totally and enthusiastically concur with that claim. However, the article is framed in a way…
Or, Why I Will Not Sign The “Increase Safety Measures On Campus To Prevent Future Attacks” Petition Recently there was a male-on-female sexual assault in a classroom building at UNC Charlotte. I teach a class in that building this semester,…
On 11/11/12, Ludacris (feat. Usher & David Guetta) posted a video for his single “Rest of My life” to YouTube. Interestingly, and awesomely, this video all but explicitly posits the main claim of my article on EDM and neoliberalism in…
“…mistaking anti-social surrealism for social realism” (Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun). People keep accusing Rihanna of this, that, and the other, when really she’s doing us such a favor that the least we could do is maybe buy…
Thoughts on SPEP 2012 Part 2 This post is about the comments and discussion about my paper “I’ve Lost Control: Negative Affect, Feminism, and Race.” You can find links to the paper and the media I discuss in it here….
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