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“Feminism for Sale”

Yazan: Candace | 14 January 2006 | Comments Off on “Feminism for Sale”
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Third Wave, Women's Studies

THIS magazine, “the leading alternative Canadian magazine of politics, pop culture, and the arts” still says that Heath and Potter’s article “Feminism for Sale” will be online soon. Harumph. I’m about ready to give up. I’ve been waiting since at least November for it to go public to put up this post. How can we […]

Doing too much (again)

Yazan: Candace | 13 January 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogging, Blogher, Family, Women's Studies

I don’t know how it happens. Last week I was enjoying a visit from my oldest and dearest friend and her son, cooking meals and eating them sitting down. I had clean laundry and exciting plans for the upcoming semester. Now it’s four days into classes, I’m overwhelmed by assignment due dates, already behind in […]

Canadian Federal Election

Yazan: Candace | 12 January 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Culture, Ecofeminism, Environment, Third Wave

We’re up for another federal election in just over a week. The Green Party has chosen not to put up signs this time. Not only are signs an eyesore in the community and a big litter maker post-election (and often during) but they are also doing this in an effort to make a responsible spending […]

Finding out

Yazan: Candace | 02 January 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Adultery, Bodies, Culture, Divorce, Family, Feminism, Marriage, Women's Studies

Someone I know is grappling with telling a friend that the friend’s husband is having an affair. She asked me what I would do – she didn’t know that I’d been through this. I was as naive as they come, and busy wrapped up in my miserable life looking after first one high needs child […]

This isn’t a gaming blog (or what a waste)

Yazan: Candace | 14 December 2005 | 4 Comments
Categories: Culture, Games, Technology

Eyetoy Kinetic is out but I don’t want to buy another Eyetoy.

Packaging

Yazan: Candace | 13 December 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Culture, Diversity, Feminism

Finding a bra that fits can be tough if you don’t fit the standard package

Our Influence on Language: “Podcast” is now a word

Yazan: Candace | 08 December 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Audiocast, Blogging, Culture, Cyberspace, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Language, Podcast, Technology, Third Wave, Women's Studies

This story today announces that the word “podcast” has made it into the New Oxford American Dictionary 2006. Originally coined as a combo of ‘ipod’ and ‘broadcast’ the word has spread into popular culture and beyond. My extended family now knows what a podcast is. My children know. Their friends know. The widespread popularity has […]

December 6 Memorial: Fourteen Not Forgotten

Yazan: Candace | 07 December 2005 | Comments Off on December 6 Memorial: Fourteen Not Forgotten
Categories: Academia, Activism, Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, History, Sexism, Third Wave, Women's Studies

Yesterday was December 6. It was the sixteenth anniversary of the Montréal Massacre that took place at École Polytechnique in Montréal, Québec, Canada. On this day, 14 women were massacred by a man with a semi automatic because he believed they had taken what should have been his place as a student in the faculty […]

Podcasts for Learning

Yazan: Candace | 02 December 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Audiocast, Canadiana, Culture, Cyberspace, Podcast, Technology, Women's Studies

I went to a session today on the how-to and why university faculty should incorporate audiocasts into their classrooms. What better way to share this info thought I then by creating an audiocast covering the major topics of the workshop.

The Myth of Mammy in The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts

Yazan: Candace | 18 November 2005 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Bodies, Culture, Diversity, Feminism, History, Racism, Women's Studies

The novel The Bondwoman’s Narrative recounts the journey of a fugitive slave woman named Hannah, from enslavement in North Carolina to freedom in New Jersey. She struggles through a life filled with cruel masters, lost-and-found-again friendships, and basic physical survival. Readers will find her positive outlook inspiring, but the amount of coincidental good fortune Hannah […]

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