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Associate Professor, Concordia Univ., Dept of Communication Studies
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Craziness
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I am really a California girl
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Media Reform Conference
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July Reads
July 31, 2007
What if?
Miranda July's short story Roy Spivey in The New Yorker's Summer Fiction Issue.
A middle-aged woman recounts an experience she had sitting on a plane beside a Hollywood hearthrob years ago and wonders...what if...she had called him at his kids' nanny's personal line?
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July Reads
July 27, 2007
Sara Paretsky's Writing in an Age of Silence, Verso Books, 2007.
How do writers create and sustain the (fictional) voices that animate dedicated readers over decades; how do they imagine believable characters that embody morals within social and political currents, role models for these crazy and fractured times? I guess if I could be resurrected V.I. Warshawski would be one dame whose feet I'd love to fall into. And behind that tough dame is one tough writer, here vulnerable to all with her account of growing up in the midwest in the '50s and '60s, dealing with gender and racial politics in America, developing a core ethos later reflected in Warshawski, one of the few feminist lady 'dicks' that can run circles around the holey triumvirate of Marlowe-Spade-Hammer. The book's also about post-9/11 infringements - blatant and some sneakier than others -- on civil rights, freedom of expression... and the passion we need to maintain for these times.
July Reads
James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar's Ivory Tower Blues: A University System in Crisis, University of Toronto Press, 2007.
And another meditation on the '70s, (see extended entry)...
Seeing as it's a languid July en vacances, where the farthest I want to be in my mental space is thinking about pedagogy or the progress of my grad student's various theses, I admit to reading this book in chunks in between lighter fare, like the New Yorker's Summer Fiction Issue...
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July 24, 2007
Mary Vaughn. As reported in today's Globe and Mail by Oliver Moore, Halifax senior facing eviction for salty language: "He was being rude and interrupting and just being a pig. I just turned around very slowly and said '---, f.o.'"
(This is actually spelled out in the G&M).
Heroine of the Day
July 21, 2007
We All Loved Lucy...
In today's Globe and Mail John Allemang reports on Alan Weisman's book The World Without Us, where...poof! bam! annihilation! From Allemang: "he describes in loving detail how human stuff will decompose and decay as nature rushes back in..." What's eternity? "Fragmented radio waves from episodes of I Love Lucy continue their journey into intergalactic space". I always knew Lucy rocked.
CRTC Diversity Submissions
July 20, 2007
147 records up for the 2007-5 public process of the Diversity of Voices proceedings...
Bet there is some juicy stuff in here...watch out students! Within the various intervenor names there can often be found multiple signatories/endorsers, for instance with Michael Lithgow's intervention which several of us at Con U signed on as endorsers...
Colleagues I quickly recognize:
David Skinner and Bob Hackett...
Catherine Murray ...
and many of the usual suspects.
July Reads...'70s Redux
Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution....
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz...
Dana Spiotto's Eat the Document (reviewed in NY Times )...
Megan Kelso's Watergate Sue in the Sunday NY Times Magazine
..read alongside the previous July's '70s crop:
Susan Choi's American Woman...
Neil Gordon's The Company You Keep...
Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind ...
On the same topic...
Caryl Rivers has a great overview in today's Alternet on Bush's War on Women Is a War on Science. She writes:
Continue reading "On the same topic..."July Reads
Why are these men in dark suits smiling and chortling? It's 2003 and gawd bless america, they're signing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. If you too have a visceral reaction to this image essential reading is Cristina Page's How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex. (NY: Perseus, 2006).
Page examines the discourses and debates amongst the pro-life movement and the pro-choice movement in the US. How, she asks, does the pro-life movement, with its alleged championing of 'life', serve to restrict women's access to birth control mechanisms that, yeah, stop the need for abortion? Birth control? Ha! For the pro-lifer's it a dirty 'lil word, and they'll just export that sensibility abroad. Or call for Abstinence, as the Vatican promotes the stance that using condoms is immoral, and the Bush Admin attempts to stop women's access to the emerg contraceptive Plan B ...I'm reeling in the years. Is this 1957?