http://eminism.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:17:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It looks like the stock of National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) has been going down steadily over the past twelve months. Why am I not surprised? Just kidding. NYSE:NWSA is the ticker symbol for the media conglomerate News Corp. http://eminism.org/blog/entry/42 In March, I was invited to speak at the "tribute panel" dedicated to Black feminist thought, especially the work and life of Audre Lorde during the National Women's Studies Association. I felt honored, and more than slightly intimidated, to be selected to address the importance of Audre Lorde's work in ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/41 I'm going to Eugene this Friday to present at Beyond Patriarchy conference. I was originally planning to do two workshops (one on intersex activism and another on sex worker feminisms) but due to my schedule (I'm hosting Good Asian Drivers' stop at In Other Words bookstore in Portland on Saturday) ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/40 Several weeks ago, I was contacted by the National Women's Studies Association and invited to speak on the "Tribute Panel" at this year's annual meeting in June. The tribute panel is designed to "honor past scholarship that set new directions for the field," and this year it is dedicated to ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/39 Email I received at Intersex Initiative. id love to meet a reallllllllllll hermorphadite in person. my email is *****@hotmail.com in *****. The first "*****" is part of an email address; the latter is a name of a City. I get these emails at least once a week. ISNA must receive it every day, ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/38 In case you are wondering why there hasn't been new post in a while--I'm having some technical difficulties with my installation of MovableType, and am considering switching to another application. Stay tuned... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/37 Élise, This is a response to your comments to "What 'Veiled Threat'? Response to Élise Hendrick." It became too long to post as a comment, so I'm making it a new entry. Certainly Dreger could have picked a different case to put her weight around around, but I don't think she approached ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/36 On Life After Gonzales, Élise Hendrick claims that I made a "veiled threat" against Joelle Ruby Ryan, a trans activist and graduate student at Bowling Green State University. Élise writes: Dreger repeats her unsupported and unspecified claims of misrepresentations (in one case “profound” misrepresentations”) and factual errors throughout her correspondence on the ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/35 While I feel that I made a point that needed to be made in my initial response to the student who kept requesting an interview, it occurred to me that publishing it on this blog would seriously discourage students from emailing me, not just for some class assignments that I ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/34 Hi Bee, To answer your question, yes I did indeed considered the potential positive impact of answering this student's questions. That said, I believed that there was a greater good to be gained from responding the way I did--and it's not extra time for me. You see, if I was simply trying ... http://eminism.org/blog/entry/33