Last Friday, the Toronto Star published a piece by columnist Carol Goar that combined useful (if depressing) information about postsecondary education in Ontario and important questions about “the quiet death…
Last Friday, the Toronto Star published a piece by columnist Carol Goar that combined useful (if depressing) information about postsecondary education in Ontario and important questions about “the quiet death…
I have, lately, been doing a series of posts on my personal blog responding to pieces on the site The Good Men Project. For various reasons, I’m doing these posts…
This is my first journalistic piece in quite some time, about last night’s “casseroles” demonstration by students and supporters in downtown Sudbury. It was original published at the Grassroots Sudbury…
Here’s another in my series of responses to articles published at The Good Men Project. Each post I do in this series is written in a deliberately brief period —…
As regular readers of my blog know, a long-term project of mine that is about to bear fruit is one based on doing oral history interviews with long-time Canadian activists…
I have, lately, been doing a series of posts series responding to pieces on the site The Good Men Project. For various reasons, I’m doing these posts quickly — in…
As regular readers of this site know, a long-term project of mine that is about to bear fruit is one based on doing oral history interviews with long-time Canadian activists…
The Measure of a Man is a delightful, well-written memoir about a man, the family he grew up in, and clothes. There are a number of different ways I could…
This is the third book about teaching and pedagogy by African-American feminist (and prolific writer on diverse topics) bell hooks. Her earlier two books on this topic made significant contributions…
This is my latest post in a series responding to pieces on the site The Good Men Project. Each post I do in this series is written in only an…
So, I’m done school…for real, completely, totally done. Contrary to what I expected when I wrote in early July, I no longer feel as much urgent need for acute detox…
This is the third book about teaching and pedagogy by African-American feminist (and prolific writer on diverse topics) bell hooks. Her earlier two books on this topic made significant contributions…
Himani Bannerji’s latest collection, Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology, builds a rich picture of the themes listed in the subtitle by passing through a broad range…
As proposed in an earlier post and enacted once so far in a more recent one, as I complete school I’ve taken on doing weekly-ish, timed, one-hour written responses to…
I wrote recently that as part of my efforts to shed some of the ways that my not-quite-done year-long foray into graduate studies have shaped my relationships to time, reading,…
I still have one month of school left, give or take, and it is going to be a hard go of it right to the end. This term has been…
The manufacture, possession, and deployment of weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, and nuclear) must be counted as instances of declared governmental readiness to inflict cruel death upon civilian populations…
The nation is comprised of sexed subjects whose “performativity” constructs not only their own gender identity but the identity of the entire nation as well. Through repetition of accepted norms…
Himani Bannerji’s latest collection, Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology, builds a rich picture of the themes listed in the subtitle by passing through a broad range…
