BRING YOUR OWN MUSIC, VOLUME 1
I have known two things for a while:1. I like music, and I have feelings about itand2. I like feminism, and I have feelings about itI realized in class that even if we don't end up with classes...
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Be Like Others: An Issue Transcending Borders
Of the many riveting cultural situations that we have only begun to explore in class so far, one of the most striking were those of men and women born in the body of a sex that they do not identify...
View Articlejust speak nearby/working towards ideas
Initially, I thought about feminism across different geographic locations as global feminism, as a feminism rooted in nations, defined and given flavor by the nation as a whole. That is, thinking about...
View ArticleBreathless and French Feminism
This semester I am taking Intro to Film with Michael Tratner. We recently watched a 1960’s French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless. This movie featured two main characters:...
View ArticleNGOs in Ghana – intial reflections on group project & trip
While in Ghana, I couldn’t help but think about my group’s discussion of NGOs in Ghana and their work, and compare these things to the realities that we saw on the ground. I still have a lot of...
View ArticleCountry Club discourse(s)
recall - - Discourse = “set of values and viewpoints in terms of which one must speak and act, at least while being in the discourse” (Gee)So Mia and I were talking about going to this country...
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The Miniature Earth Project- youtube video
This was something interesting that I found a while ago and todays class is reminding me of this video so I decided to post it to see what people think. I found it interesting that the She's the First...
View Articlehello, cruel world
I wanted to learn more about the outreach that Kate Bornstein does today, and her website "Hello Cruel World" is something that I feel is really great.www.hellocruelworld.net I think that most people...
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Janelle Monae Setting the Seen and Accompanying Links
I would suggest looking into all of Janelle Monáe's album The ArchAndroid both for musical/cultural value but also for its message and presentation (especially if you plan on reading the Moya Bailey...
View Articleworking towards a product/interrogating process/difficulties of form and method
I’m working to develop and create a storyboard for the video piece I want to produce for my final project, but I am wondering if the directive and narrative-reflective form of the storyboard. That is,...
View Articlejust speak nearby our minds::final project
[just speak nearby the borders of our minds] <-- linkThis is a piece about borders. About communities. About movement and restrictions and ideologies. I wanted to interrogate how feminism is at...
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MTV's Missing Piece
To Begin. . .As an avid TV junkie, I have stayed up many a night to watch re-runs of the shows “Teen Mom” and “16 & Pregnant.” I know you are probably rolling your eyes if you're not a fan of the...
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Mulan in Real Life: Chinese Women Soldiers and Feminism
The military has been traditionally defined as a masculine institution; actually it may be the most prototypically masculine one of all social institutions. Therefore, whenever women soldiers appear...
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Education is Life Itself: Evolution, Unconscious and Reflective Processes,...
by Paul Grobstein and Alice LesnickAbstractSchooling often rests uneasily on presumed dichotomies between coverage and inquiry, skill development and creativity. By drawing on the often...
View ArticleLearning and Narrating Childhoods Retrospective: Learning from Our 360 Final...
INTRODUCTION: What does it mean to visit an African country with a class from a US college in order to learn?Alice Lesnick, Term Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr CollegeJuly, 2012360: Learning and...
View ArticleThe Teaching & Learning Initiative: Nepali Style
Hello beautiful Serendip world! My name is Briana Bellamy, I'm a BMC alum '11. Recently, I returned from an incredible year of living in Nepal, working on a project funded by the Davis Projects for...
View Articlelabyrinthine thoughts
Where I am sitting now: in a Starbucks on Broadway near 110th St, on the Upper West Side of New York, nearly 10 o'clock on Saturday night, the only place and time I've managed to get internet access...
View ArticleHalf the Sky
Hey everybody, I don't really know if this has any place in this Ecological Imaginings class, but maybe if we can imagine the preservation of women to be a form of ecology, not unlike the preservation...
View Article'Color Of Christ': A Story Of Race And Religion In America
Our discussion today reminded me of a story I listened to on NPR last week about the multiple perceptions of Jesus. It is really very interesting. This is the link:...
View Articlecode switching between Bronx slang, kid Spanish, academic English and more.
I I like to write my posts in a cute little teal journal, accurately labled "thoughts." I wondered what the destiny of this book would be and I'm happy it's this. My entry started with three stick...
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