In 1968, Jane Elliott created what would become known as the “Blue Eye/ Brown Eye Experiment,” dividing her class based on eye color and letting first one half, then the other, oppress their fellow students merely be telling them that one group was superior to the other. The exercise is used around the country to show that racism is a socially constructed phenomenon. Just as people are not essentially different based on eye color, so they are not essentially different based on race. The implications this has for feminism quickly become obvious. Students believe in the gender binary because

 

Proposal for Critical Feminist Studies Project

The project that I want to pursue this semester is going to be a bit experimental for me. I want to make a sort of intro feminist graphic zine. I’m not sure exactly what form this will take, but I have several ideas and sources of inspiration for this project.

The first impetus for this project came from my last paper for this course, envisioning my model for feminist

I've been working recently on a paper that reflects my interests in taking ideas from thinking about the brain and seeing how useful they are in trying to make sense of the social realm. And in issues of academic and political organization that seem to me intriguingly related. The paper will appear in the near future in the Journal of Research Practice, and I'll put a link to it here when it does. In the meanwhile, here's a link to a pdf of the latest draft of the paper