After watching this piece about California's draconian "sentence enhancement" policies, I went to the GED site to see about getting the test in Spanish.
2/29/2016
two new things
Brittney Cooper is my favorite news commentator.
She spoke at the Y a few weeks ago, and they taped it, so I watched it.
Two (of the) things I learned from her:
(1) The sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline. I knew that many, many people who are incarcerated -- especially women --- are survivors of sexual abuse, but I'd never heard that term before, and I think it's a brilliant way of naming that reality. Naming is so important.
(2) The critique of intersectionality coming from scholars arguing for assemblage as a more helpful construct. I don't exactly understand the distinction, but now I want to.
Also, at 59:30, she gets asked about the 2016 election, and the way she responds is so YEAH YEAH EXACTLY YEAH.
She spoke at the Y a few weeks ago, and they taped it, so I watched it.
Two (of the) things I learned from her:
(1) The sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline. I knew that many, many people who are incarcerated -- especially women --- are survivors of sexual abuse, but I'd never heard that term before, and I think it's a brilliant way of naming that reality. Naming is so important.
(2) The critique of intersectionality coming from scholars arguing for assemblage as a more helpful construct. I don't exactly understand the distinction, but now I want to.
Also, at 59:30, she gets asked about the 2016 election, and the way she responds is so YEAH YEAH EXACTLY YEAH.
T-O-M-A-S-Z-K-I-E-W-I-C-Z
Pronounced TOM-uh-SKEV-itch.
Mrs. Tomaskiewicz was my third grade teacher. I remembered the other day that she used to say to us, whenever we boasted about some accomplishment, "Do you want a parade or a party?"
That was kind of mean because we were only nine and we were proud of ourselves.
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When I wrote the pronunciation, I noticed that it was the opposite of iambic (as in Shakespeare's iambic pentameter -- five iambs in a row: "From FORTH the FAtal LOINS of THESE two FOE"). I looked it up and when the stressed syllable comes before the unstressed syllable, it's called a trochee (adj trochaic): "DID he WHO made THE lamb MAKE thee?" The poetic norm is trochaic tetrameter, four trochees in a row, as we see above. In the case of Tomaskiewicz, we have trochaic dimeter.
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She had a greenhouse in her classroom where we kept the paper towels, and she always had a desk in her seating chart that was left empty but had a name-tag on it for Jesus.
Mrs. Tomaskiewicz was my third grade teacher. I remembered the other day that she used to say to us, whenever we boasted about some accomplishment, "Do you want a parade or a party?"
That was kind of mean because we were only nine and we were proud of ourselves.
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When I wrote the pronunciation, I noticed that it was the opposite of iambic (as in Shakespeare's iambic pentameter -- five iambs in a row: "From FORTH the FAtal LOINS of THESE two FOE"). I looked it up and when the stressed syllable comes before the unstressed syllable, it's called a trochee (adj trochaic): "DID he WHO made THE lamb MAKE thee?" The poetic norm is trochaic tetrameter, four trochees in a row, as we see above. In the case of Tomaskiewicz, we have trochaic dimeter.
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She had a greenhouse in her classroom where we kept the paper towels, and she always had a desk in her seating chart that was left empty but had a name-tag on it for Jesus.
2/02/2016
Navigating all that unpacking and complicating and problemetizing.
Walking down the hallway at Mills yesterday, I heard just these words from a conversation two women were having:
Just now though, it's making me think of the Bechdel test for movies, TV, etc.:
(1) Does it have two named female characters?
(2) Do they talk to each other?
(3) ...About anything other than a man?
Clicking the link above will take you to a sad long list of all the movies that fail the test. More movies need to feature women talking about the notions of how we position concepts. I'd go to those movies.
"...notion that how we position the concept..."I immediately texted the words to myself so that I could remember them because I thought they were so funny. I love graduate school jargon.
Just now though, it's making me think of the Bechdel test for movies, TV, etc.:
(1) Does it have two named female characters?
(2) Do they talk to each other?
(3) ...About anything other than a man?
Clicking the link above will take you to a sad long list of all the movies that fail the test. More movies need to feature women talking about the notions of how we position concepts. I'd go to those movies.
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