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Web Papers and Events

Final Web Event: The Closet

Dec 19 2013 - 9:51am

Coming out. What people don’t understand is that coming out of any closet is hardest for the person actually having to do it. People receiving news like that selfishly feel blind-sighted and they blame themselves while not giving that person’s feelings a second thought. The sad part is, people struggle so much with coming out because of the fear of other people’s reactions and they only get proved right in many situations. I think the hardest person to come to terms with coming out with is...

Web Event #3: Unbinding Mourning

Dec 8 2013 - 4:56pm

The definition of unbinding is formally “to release from bonds or restraints.” When I think of feminism unbound, I think of it in terms of unbinding the traditional idea of feminism, “queering” it in the sense that normative views and ideas on feminism are released from bonds or restraints. Everything goes beyond the surface of its normative definition and in this case, feminism and mourning can be related in terms of unbinding traditional definitions of the two. Mourning on the surface is...

Web Event 2: Queer Disability

Nov 8 2013 - 2:00pm

A fifteen year-old boy is beginning high school today, the school he is attending was just renovated under a very large budget, it is now very aesthetically pleasing. His mom will drop him off and most likely embarrass him just as any parent of a freshman in high school would. There is a twist in this seemingly “typical” day, his mother will have to lift his wheelchair out of the back of the car and then lift him into it in order for him to get around for the day. She’ll wheel him into the...

Silence in Spoken Word--Web Event #1

Oct 6 2013 - 3:21pm

The class is averagely sized, large by Bryn Mawr’s standards though. The atmosphere is a bit chaotic, I walk in to a whirlwind of questions and answers and voices a few minutes after the “getting to know you” activity has started. The professor says list every pronoun you know to this person across from you that you’ve never spoken to…go.

Posts

On Mourning -- Dec 1 2013 - 8:24pm

Power Feminism -- Nov 17 2013 - 8:42pm

Thoughts on Home -- Oct 30 2013 - 5:34pm

intense class discussion -- Oct 28 2013 - 1:00pm

Binary Slam -- Sep 15 2013 - 3:25pm

Gender in Language -- Sep 8 2013 - 3:15pm

My Avatar -- Sep 4 2013 - 1:25pm

Comments

We both discussed the -- Nov 13 2013 - 11:26pm

we both talked a lot about -- Nov 13 2013 - 11:20pm

I have never taken a class -- Oct 20 2013 - 3:39pm

You and I both discussed our -- Oct 9 2013 - 11:37pm

Our papers are related in the -- Oct 9 2013 - 11:32pm

To comment on the staring -- Sep 29 2013 - 6:42pm

I agree in that I am also not -- Sep 22 2013 - 10:45pm

Self Evalution

Self-Evalution -- Dec 19 2013 - 10:20am

I began this semester with really no idea what this class was going to mean to me. I thought okay we’ll talk about feminism and empowerment it’ll be great. I could have never prepared myself for the journey that I feel I’ve taken with myself and the rest of the class. The class has made me question everything I knew to be true and actually able to teach people some things about my learning and experience. I’ve never been an academic person, that sounds crazy because I’ve been in school my whole life, I just mean I’ve never been excited about school until I came to Bryn Mawr. And I’ve never been excited about anything in particular until I came to this class. I’ve never felt so connected to the world and present issues, most everything we read and discussed has an important place in our world today and that is so important to me.

I’ve really never been one to be silent in the classroom but I found that side of me in this class, which disappointed you and me both. My silence...

Group / Course Home Pages

Critical Feminist Studies 2013