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Winter Projects

Yazan: Candace | 02 February 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Activism, Blogging, Blogher, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, Happy, History, Life, northernvoice, School, Technology, Third Wave, Women's Studies

I turned in my application to the MA history program with an exciting proposal to collect oral histories from the last women to give birth on Pelee Island,Ontario, back in the 1950s. By then most women were relocating to either mainland Ontario (Leamington or Windsor) or to Ohio to give birth. I’m excited because there’s […]

And today is December 6

Yazan: Candace | 06 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Canadiana, Feminism, History, School, Women's Studies

Today is December 6, 2006. It is 17 years after the day a gunman shot and killed 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Thirteen were students and one was an employee of the university. Today we remember these victims of gendered violence and reflect on women everywhere who are victims of gendered […]

Writing an abstract

Yazan: Candace | 29 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, School

This is based on my experience as an undergraduate TA. I thought I would share what I’ve put together to help students understand what an abstract does if they’ve never done one before. An abstract is brief, clear, and concise. It gives the reader enough information to know what an article is about but not […]

Addressing race, class, and sexuality in the environmental movement

Yazan: Candace | 14 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Ecofeminism, Environment, Racism, Sexism, Women's Studies

The environmental movement has inadequately addressed issues of race, class, and sexuality. The feminist movement has only recently identified the need to consider race, class, and sexuality, and made concentrated efforts to be inclusive in their concerns, structures, and practices. As the environmental movement faces increasing pressure to align itself with social justice issues and […]

In another life

Yazan: Candace | 08 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Aging, Life, School, Technology

In another life I wanted to be an aerospace engineer. This was back in grade 11 physics, which I loved. My teacher recognized that and talked to me about engineering, and I was drawn in to aerospace. I wanted to make rockets. I was sure that this is what I would do until I discovered […]

Driving too slow

Yazan: Candace | 06 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Life, School

I went to a grad school workshop today (not inspiring). And then I read this from Joel Spolsky, posted a week and a half ago on Joel on Software. The combination of the two is pretty bad. You see, if you can’t whiz through the easy stuff at 100 m.p.h., you’re never gonna get the […]

The F-word again: what’s the diff between ‘egalitarianism’ and ‘feminism’?

Yazan: Candace | 14 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Bodies, Culture, Diversity, Ecofeminism, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Language, Sexism, Women's Studies

An egalitarian believes in equality for all people: equal opportunity, equal access to resources, regardless of their gender, age, skin colour, language, culture, sexual orientation, religion, ability, etc. A feminist shares this belief but takes it further and says that women’s oppression must be acknowledged and eliminated before an egalitarian society can exist. We cannot […]

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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