Outside of academia and other sites of rebellious conformity, most people have experienced the trans phenomenon as unprecedentedly weird. Almost on a dime, we were asked to turn from viewing the sexual binary as a basic reality to viewing it as a pernicious lie perpetuated to defend positions of power. The fact that the two […]| Fairer Disputations
One sunny afternoon in March 2024, I walked into a flea market in Chengdu, China — a labyrinth of book stalls, shadowed corridors, and a handful of solitary customers. The vendors were largely absent, or perhaps stationed on stools in darkened corners, their faces illuminated by the glow of mobile screens. Each stall overflowed with dust: old magazines, documents, books, and well-worn notebooks that formed towers of forgotten knowledge. I pulled one volume after another from these stacks, h...| Platypus
By Bonnie Shishko and Shawn Bowers As college professors with three combined decades of First-Year Writing experience, we’re observing two unsettling trends: first, that traditional undergraduate students are increasingly unlikely to tackle academic writing without relying on AI-tools, and second, that they are increasingly likely to hold rigid beliefs about writing—what it is, what it … Continue reading Recipes as Pedagogical Resistance: Teaching Food Writing in an AI-Era →| The Recipes Project
BLOG ALERT! | DIASPORIC CAPITAL: CANADIAN SEX WORKERS OF COLOR HACKING SEXUAL RACISM Dr. Menaka Raguparan examines how Canadian sex workers of color utilize diasporic capital to juxtapose dominant …| Gender & Society
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I recently had a new co-authored research article published in the journal Body & Society, titled Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy. It is part of a special issue on Pregnant Bodies and Embodied Pregnancy. For this piece of writing, we were particularly interested in how embodiment is gendered and vice-versa. In the article, we draw […]| Dr Ruth Pearce
I often hear Contact Improvisation teachers emphasizing the importance of ‘keeping one’s own solo dance’ (variously phrased). What they...| Dhammavicaya
At a recent workshop in Vienna, Ralf Jaroschinski proposed to reflect and approach contact improvisation from the point of view of...| Dhammavicaya
I walk. People around. A lot. But are they there? Social roles, of course, keep us apart. Everybody is playing their part. You must...| Dhammavicaya
I’m on my way back from another very inspiring week of the CI teacher training in Freiburg. This time the most insightful aspect emerged...| Dhammavicaya
—Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Virgil’s The Aeneid) And perhaps it will be a joy to remember these things one day by Brooke Thomas I found out my student had passed when another student pulled me aside in the hallway just before the start of our Monday lecture. She had known him–let’s call him […]| Visible Pedagogy
January is a hectic month at the gym. I race over right after school drop-off, just to get a parking spot. The treadmills are often taken, and it may take a little muscle to get a bench. By mid-February things will have calmed down, and by April we’ll be back to “Cheers bar” days, just […]| Fairer Disputations
I spend quite some time without thinking much at anything. Often when I walk, or sit, or just attend to ordinary activities, I like being quiet and silent inside. But I like thinking, namely, I like trying to articulate and spelling out what often seems intuitively clear and interesting, but at first also a bit mysterious. The point is not to take the mystery away, but just to fully understand what the mystery is about. Over the past four months or so, I transitioned from a very still and re...| Dhammavicaya
A meditation on embodiment and calling, attention and social media and physical presence—inspired by seeing many friends at EmberConf.| v4.chriskrycho.com
In “The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept”, Karma Chavez critically examines how rhetoric historically privileges certain abstract bodies, i.e. white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterose…| Critical Posthumanism Network
