There comes a time in American politics where the Politicians take certain movements too far. Such as the banning of Gays in the military. Or the attempts to ban Firearms, and Violent Video Games (in California, no less.) What they try to make a point in, is that by taking away violence in video games, [...]
All posts for the month November, 2010
When Freedoms Are Threatened, #1
Posted by wallamazoo on November 24, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/when-freedoms-are-threatened-1/
“Dad, I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You: What Is A Slut?”
I was in the kitchen with our cis-gendered daughter of nine years age, a few weeks back. She was eating her dinner and I was reading a post by Rabbit White. Striking up a conversation, she asks me: “Dad, I’ve been meaning to ask you – What’s a ‘slut’?” Now, there’s an ice breaker. Of the [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on November 22, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/dad-ive-been-meaning-to-ask-you-what-is-a-slut/
Slipping Out Of Gendered Spaces
Earlier this week I was discussing Wuthering Heights with my class of 11th graders. We were talking about how demarcations, borders and outlines of the Body are continuously challenged in the text, in such a way that the Body becomes a hybrid of human and beast. At one point Catherine exclaims, “Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He is always, [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 21, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/slipping-out-of-gendered-spaces/
Caught Between Colonised Consonants
These last few weeks have been rather stressful for me, so by the time I get home, I’m more than exhausted, crash on my sofa and let the TeeVee numb my LadyLobes into oblivion for a while. This is around the time my grandmother’s favourite soaps are aired and we’ve developed a routine between the [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 18, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/caught-between-colonised-consonants/
Dislocating Discourses; Rewriting Boundaries
This weekend my parents’ friends are visiting some obscure little village in some Dusty Part of India, because they apparently have a house there — and they didn’t even know it! — and the lovely Government wants to run it down and make a road connecting two villages, all in the name of progress that [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 26, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/dislocating-discourses-rewriting-boundaries/