From noted feminist theorist Elle Macpherson: Q: How important is fashion in our world today? A; What’s really important is our health, our family, our well-being. Fashion is not important. But if we can feel creative by putting together certain outfits that make us feel good about ourselves, well, that’s a way of expressing ourselves …
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One of the best things I’ve read on sexual harassment and hostile climate is the “Sexual Harassment” chapter in Nelson and Watt’s Academic Keywords.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/news/story.cfm?type=News%20Feature I have occasionally deferred answers to questions in this space about my leaving Pitt in 2004. No doubt, this article clarifies a little but not a lot. It’s also a big step for me personally. I decided that it was better to do the right thing and risk pissing off a lot of people …
In working on a review, I had occasion to reference George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language. While I’m not a particular partisan of plain prose, his advice on writing is — in general — still quite sound for anyone today, and especially scholars.
One reason why I have been blogging less lately — besides travel and the fact that September appears to be the Devil’s Month at McGill (as February was at my last job) — is that my move to administration, while taking up some time, doesn’t make for interesting blogging. And when it does make for …
first of all, I am absolutely and completely in love with this Besnard Lakes CD and am sorry I had to miss them in pop montreal while I was in Durham, but that happens. I am especially fond of a song called Thomasina that compresses just so in my headphones or on my earbuds. Interestingly, …
. . .I have returned to Montreal and undertaken the long and complex process of reducing the huge piles of paper (and bits) awaiting me. But I write not to complain about impending fellowship deadlines. Rather, I write to extoll the virtues of the podcasting conference. It was an unusual conference for me, since it …
