Shaping the self via journaling
“The movement they seek to bring about is the reverse of that: the intent is not to pursue the unspeakable, nor to reveal the hidden, nor to say the unsaid, … Continue readingShaping the self via journaling
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“The movement they seek to bring about is the reverse of that: the intent is not to pursue the unspeakable, nor to reveal the hidden, nor to say the unsaid, … Continue readingShaping the self via journaling
“Finally, writing about inner impulses appears, also according to Athanasius’s text, as a weapon in spiritual combat. While the Devil is a power who deceives and causes one to be … Continue readingthe darker side of “spiritual combat”
bell hooks writes, “This to me is what makes feminist transformation possible. Personal testimony, personal experience, is such fertile ground for the production of liberatory feminist theory because it usually … Continue readingLiberatory theory and women on YouTube
“It is evident that one of the many uses of theory in academic locations is in the production of an intellectual class hierarchy where the only work deemed truly theoretical … Continue readinghooks, Butler, and the theoretical hierarchy
As I’ve had time to think about her ideas, I’ve realized that Hooks’ vision for a dynamic, collaborative classroom is nearly the perfect inverse to my own high school experience. … Continue readingHooks Vs. Cyber High School
A core, overarching idea offered by hooks, is that “…any radical pedagogy must insist that everyone’s presence is acknowledged” (8). Further, hooks states that “[Students’] contributions are resources” (8). This … Continue readinghooks’ vision for the collaborative classroom
I’d like to discuss yet another YouTube video! This time, it’s a short segment from a video by Cammie Scott. Specifically, the video covers her own coming out story. Butler … Continue readingThe “troubled” relationship of gender & sexuality
Judith Butler states, in the bottom portion of page 10, that “Gender Trouble sought to refuse the notion that lesbian practice instantiates feminist theory, and set up a more troubled … Continue readingThe Lesbian and the Feminist
A few years back, one of my favourite online content creators (Brittany Simon) posted a YouTube video titled “I was raised as a boy.” Within this short video (embedded below, … Continue reading“I was raised as a boy.”
Toward the end of the 1990 preface to Gender Trouble, Judith Butler briefly sheds light onto an idea that is fundamental not only to her own text, but to the … Continue readingUnraveling gender