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robo-readers do what teachers can’t! Or, how we turned writing literacy into...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has this weekly radio show called “Spark.” It is, in my opinion, the best technology-focused show that Americans don’t know about. This week’s show included a...
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music review: Lucas Silveira’s “Mockingbird”
[post updated Friday, June 22, 1:46 p.m. EDT: The earlier version of this post failed to acknowledge Hill Kourkoutis's involvement in the production of the album discussed below. I further presumed,...
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Susan Powter is a lesbian.
file under: things you suspected but stopped really caring about for a while there You remember Susan Powter, right? Of Stop the Insanity! fame. She lost a ton of weight, cut her hair super short...
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Greek politician slaps female rival on TV, carries his party to victory...
file under: don’t you dare think it doesn’t happen in the United States too. The symbol of Greece's Golden Dawn party. Many have compared this symbol to the Nazi swastika. You may have missed this, if...
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Why I won’t be at the Chick Fil-A counterprotest
…and why you can’t win for losing, these days. A bunch of queerfolks around the world plan on queerin’ up Chick Fil-A today as a counterprotest to “Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day” (aka: “take a stand...
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Jenna McWilliams: still not a seminal thinker
Almost three years ago I explained why I hate the words ‘seminal’ and ‘disseminate.’ Here’s the explanation, in brief: Both words come from the latin root seminalis, or seed, from which we also get the...
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Ani DiFranco is bumming me out.
I’ve been a fan of Ani DiFranco since the late 1990s, when I bought cassette tapes of Little Plastic Castle and Out of Range–still my favorites, of the nearly two dozen albums she’s released. During...
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National Coming Out Day: Smash ALL the closets.
Yesterday, Oct. 11, was National Coming Out Day. I made this image in honor of the event: Then, on Facebook, I posted this: I really do believe in the importance of people coming out as LGBTQI allies....
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Zoe Weil on humane education
Here’s a Tedx talk by Zoe Weil, the founder of the Institute for Humane Education: About halfway through her talk, Weil talks about a game she does with students that she calls “True Price.” The idea...
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Against ‘Free Feline Friday’
If you live in Bloomington, Indiana, you may have heard about the local man who was arrested for torturing and killing several cats. The story, ripped directly from the Bloomington-Herald Times*, is...
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adventures in teaching Educational Psychology
This semester I’m teaching a new undergraduate course of my own design, a class I’m calling “learning in out-of-school contexts.” The OFFICIAL course title is General Educational Psychology, and it’s...
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gender bias: (yet) another reason to worry about MOOCs
Image source: http://cogdogblog.com/2012/07/17/mooc-hysertia/ You may have heard that Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are going to revolutionize and/or destroy higher education as we know it. A...
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It Gets Better: the LGBTQ Pride Film Festival, Dead Poets Society and Stephen...
When I was 12 years old, I went with my family to see the Robin Williams movie Dead Poets Society. One of the movie’s main characters is a troubled, sensitive teenager whose actions are controlled by...
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In case you were wondering about my position on marriage equality
This week the U.S. Supreme Court hears two cases about marriage equality. Today it’s Prop 8; tomorrow it’s DOMA. In case you were wondering, here’s how I feel about the fight to extend marriage...
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letter of concern regarding Jack Halberstam’s position on trans identity...
On Thursday, April 2, 2015, I attended a talk by Jack Halberstam at the University of Colorado Boulder. I was deeply concerned about the content of Dr. Halberstam’s talk, which I considered to be...
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academic conferences: advice for navigating the Q&A
ugh, AERA. I mean, hooray, AERA! In the land of educational research, a pretty enormous conference is coming up–the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). I’m the...
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academic conference advice: Navigating social events
Ugh, social events. We’re all in this together, people. Let’s be real—a super important piece of the AERA Annual Meeting is its social events. Attending business meetings, receptions, and social...
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“what gives you the moral authority?”
So here’s something that happened to me yesterday at the AERA Annual Meeting: I gave a talk about my dissertation (.pdf) in a roundtable sponsored by the Queer Studies Special Interest Group. I began...
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rationale for doing queer work in schools: dissertation excerpt
I wrote a lot over the last few years about doing queer work in schools. I wrote almost as much about doing trans* work in schools. (I typed the word ‘trans*’ so often that I put a sticker on my...
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Here’s an op/ed about the notion of “passing” as it relates to transgender folks. The author, Aiden James Kosciesza, describes “passing” as follows: The term “passing,” when applied to transgender...
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