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A teacher’s blog for the less traditional, or those with names they don’t like.
“Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri
“Sexy” is a short story written by Jhumpa Lahiri in 1998. It is about a woman, Miranda, who lives in Boston and begins an affair with a married Indian man named Dev. All the while, Miranda’s best friend, Laxmi, is telling her of the way her cousin’s husband has begun an affair with a women…
On “Guilty Pleasures” by Jackson Katz
In Jackson Katz’s essay “Guilty Pleasures: Pornography, Prostitution, and Stripping” (Chapter 10 of the linked book) from 2006, the title explains it all. Well, sort of. Katz goes in detail to explain the view of pornography from the feminist perspective, including both the view of the feminists that are for or adamantly against the porn…
Lahiri Interview
The interview with Jhumpa Lahiri comes following the debut of her first novel The Namesake. It focuses much on her influences as a writer, particularly when it comes to her Indian heritage. It poses questions such as how much of her work was driven from experience and how this first novel will hold up to…
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri was born July 11, 1967 in London, England, but from the age of three, lived in Rhode Island in the United States. Lahiri grew up a more introverted child, turning to books and writing in elementary school as an outlet. She felt like an outsider in the United States because of her strong…
“Violence Against Women – it’s a Men’s Issue”
Jackson Katz – “Violence Against Women – it’s a Men’s Issue” Jackson Katz begins his TED Talk by explaining the way that we as a society have begun taking men out of the conversation about sexual and domestic abuse. In turn, we focus on the victim, women, and what they are doing to be placed…
Jackson Katz
Jackson Katz was born May 7, 1960 in Swampscott, Maryland. Katz is currently married to his wife, Shelley, and has a son named Judah. He is an activist in masculine studies, specifically focusing on the way that norms have focused on creating a culture of “misogyny, homophobia, and violence” (182). Prior, Kats studied at UMass…
Something Something Linguistics
Being in a Linguistics class this semester has really left me with language on the brain, folks. Today, it just so happened to come up in my readings. Paul Kei Matsuda and Matthew J. Hammill’s essay “Second Language Writing Pedagogy” discusses the way second language learners can struggle in English classrooms in terms of writing.…
You had Me at Research (Please Drop the Paper)
Hold on folks, I found yet ANOTHER blurb today while reading that made me feel incredibly guilty. So. I feel pretty confident in saying that none of us probably wrote like experts in high school, especially when doing research projects. I mean I can at least speak for myself and say that I was a…
There is an Alternative to Essays You Know.
So, it’s time we have a serious talk that is honestly a little sad for me to admit. *deep breath* Okay, so, even in the day and age that I have grown up in, I’m still incredibly bad at working technology and digital media into the classroom. There I said it. “Well, good for you.…
Please Try Harder than Using Facebook in the Classroom.
Raise your hand if you were ever a victim of a high school teacher telling you to write a blog post or a Facebook page that was in all actuality completely pointless and you didn’t know what you were doing anyway. Honestly, these were the worst assignments when I was at school for several reasons. …
Okay, But What Does a Feminist Classroom Look Like?
In my favorite classroom in high school, practically every day was based in class discussion and argument about what we were reading. We were encouraged to sit however we wanted in order to be most comfortable, and run the classroom like a conversation, no raised hands or waiting for permission to speak. If I close…
A Little About Me
My name is Micky Shorter and I’m currently a junior in college, attempting to get my Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education for English and a minor in Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies. “So why do you wanna teach?” Words in particular are a powerful thing. I learned that in my high school English courses. Unfortunately,…
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