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Precarious and Performative Play 2011 - Our Third Set of Web "Events"

Welcome. Below find a list of webpapers emerging from Precarious, Performative, Playful, Potential...Perspectives on Sex and Gender, an interdisciplinary course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2011. To conclude the third "act" of the course, "Relationships, Left and Right," students are here exploring the possibility of building some sort of "right relationship," with reference to a concrete contemporary problem that interests each of them.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about right relationships and activism?

alice.in.wonderland	Notes Toward Right Relationships Among Philly Bike Orgs
Amophrast	Right Relationships of Youth: Entangling Time
AmyMay	The Revolution is On
aybala50	Moving towards a right relationship between Bryn Mawr College and Transgender Students
charlie	The Arc
chelseam	Planting Justice: Examining the Potential for Alliances between Urban Garden Groups and Other Environmental Health Organizations
essietee	Make Me Feel So Damn Unpretty
Gavi	"Each is the Other": Israeli-Palestinian Literature and the Potentials for Right Relationships
jfwright	Activism Begins at Home: A Plenary Resolution Regarding the Admission of Trans Female Applicants to Bryn Mawr College
jmorgant	"Consent is Sexy" at Haverford: Not Yet
Kammy	Refugees and Right Relationships
Katie Randall	Communal clarity: Making Sense of Media
Kim K	Chain of Alliance
leamirella	The nature of our entangled relationships; can we actually form a right relationship?
lgleysteen	Searching for the Right Relationship Between Agency and Subjectivity
lwacker	Orange Alert
phenoms	Right Relationships in Urban Gardening - Overcoming the Race/Class Divide
rachelr	"The Ugly Footprint of Africa's Black Gold"
S. Yaeger	A (Hopefully) Inclusive Conversation About Right Relationships Between Cis and Trans Feminists
sel209	"A Scout Is...": Building a Right Relationship Between the Boy Scouts of America and the LGBTQ Community
Shlomo	Creating Right Relationships with the International Refugee Community in the Wake of Little Bee
someshine	A Response To President Creighton's Email "Sexual Misconduct Awareness"
venn diagram	Sex Workers’ Rights: A Call for Decriminalization

Precarious and Performative Play 2011 - Our Second Set of Web "Events"

Welcome. Below find a list of webpapers emerging from Precarious, Performative, Playful, Potential...Perspectives on Sex and Gender, an interdisciplinary course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2011. To conclude the second "act" of the course, "De/Meaning Sex and Gender," students are here explaining to a specific audience what's important about some dimension of the biology of gender or sexuality.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the biology of gender and sexuality?

alice.in.wonderland	And Tango Makes Three: Making Sense of the "Gay Penguin" Controversy
Amophrast	Humans Caged like Animals in Zoos Nationwide!!! Promoting the Study of Humans as Animals
AmyMay	Biological Discourse and Rape Culture at Haverford College
aybala50	All "Women's" College
charlie	Dear Middleschoolers, Love, Charlie
chelseam	Gender and Sexuality in the High School Biology Classroom: Fostering Critical Thinking and Active Engagement
essietee	You Went To School To Learn, Girl, Things You Never Ever Knew Before
Gavi	The Rainbow of Sex Difference: A Snippet from a Preteen Health Book
jfwright	The Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Beginning of a Book about Sex and Gender for Trans* and Intersex Kids
jmorgant	A response to “Miss Representation 8 min. trailer:” Changing gender stereotypes by increasing visibility of female athletes
Kammy	Sex and Gender Flowchart
Katie Randall	Presenting on Intersexuality-- A Template
Kim K	Reel Queer: A Movie Lover's Look into Films Dealing with LGBT Issues
leamirella	Public Sex Education in the Philippines
lgleysteen	Gay Marriage and Reproductive Options: An argument for Gay Marriage
lwacker	Uncovering the Cover-up: Gay Animals are in the Zoo too.
phenoms	Lesson Plan : Intersex
rachelr	What Makes Us- a response to Jordan-Young
S. Yaeger	An Open Letter to The ISNA Regarding How Discussing Intersex Is Vital to Our Understanding Of Gender Identity and Vice Versa
sel209	"Dex" and Diversity
Shlomo	Mommies, Daddies, Families
someshine	You need to learn a lesson, Alison. Love, A
venn diagram	Publications from Pregnancy Education Reform

Precarious, Performative, Playful, Potential ... Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 2011: Our First Set of Web "Events"

Welcome. Below find a list of webpapers emerging from Precarious, Performative, Playful, Potential...Perspectives on Sex and Gender, an interdisciplinary course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2011. To conclude the first "act" of the course, "Dis/Ability and Intra-Action," students are exploring here their current understandings of what it might mean to en-able intra-actions among gender, sexuality, disability studies and/or....?

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about gender and sexuality studies in intra-action with other fields of study?

alice.in.wonderland	"Descanting on Deformity:" A Gender/Disability Look at Shakespeare's Richard III
Amophrast	(In)visibility with Sex, Gender, and (Dis)ability: Correcting Images
AmyMay	Diffracting and Entangling System-Correcting Praxis
aybala50	A Dream Within a Dream
charlie	Portraying the Naked Woman
chelseam	Claiming the Stare: Jes Sachse and the Transformative Potential of Seeing
essietee	“Y’know what they call a unicorn without a horn? A friggin’ horse.” - Disability, Sexuality, and Passing in Glee
Gavi	Voicing Rhetorics of Beauty
jfwright	"Called Me Crazy": Insanity and Non-Normative, Butch Identities
jmorgant	Redefining Difference: The Emergence of the Disability Movement
Kammy	Finding “Home”: The Gay Evangelical Body
Katie Randall	Medical Authority in the Discourses of Disability and Transsexuality
Kim K	Out of the Closet: Fashion's Influence on Gender and Sexuality
leamirella	"You-Topia" And What It Means To Be At "Home".
lgleysteen	Nonverbal Communication as an Unclear Symbol of Gender and Identity
lwacker	Inter-acting with Art, Nina Berman's "marine wedding"
phenoms	Culturally constructed sexuality
rachelr	The Medical Treatment of… gayness?
S. Yaeger	Challenging The Idea of Independence As A Desirable End
sel209	Grey Matters: Age as Disability through the Lens of Sexuality
Shlomo	A Modern-Day Lysistrata: Sex Strikes, Diffraction, and Enabling Disability
someshine	Who was Ssehura/Sartjee/Saartje/Saat-je/Saartji/Saat-Jee/Saartjie/Sara(h) ?
venn diagram	The Perils of Passing as Explored by the Works of Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez

What is the revolutionary potential of comics as a medium?

Submitted by AnnaP on Fri, 05/06/2011 - 8:19pm

Hello classmates, professors, and visitors!

As the culmination of The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories, I have created a comic in dialogue with Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics that is meant to complement his work by both demonstrating how his ideas are useful and also highlighting some things that he left out of his theory of comics as a revolutionary medium.

Grace Hopper, Builder of Cyborgs

Submitted by Oak on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 11:41am

Grace Hopper is perhaps the most well-known pioneering figure in computer science. She coded the first compiler and is known as the “grandmother of Cobol.”[i] Her vision and drive helped spur computer innovation farther than was thought possible, and led to technologies that even she could not foresee. Her ideal of making computer use easier and more intuitive to humans was carried farther than she could have imagined by technologies like those Andy Clark speaks of in Natural Born Cyborgs.

Chorost & a Continuation of Teknolust

Submitted by Apocalipsis on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 10:17pm

Our in class conversation on Monday with author Michael Chorost's skype was certainly dynamic. Although I enjoyed the topics discussed, I found that at one point I asked the wrong question and didn't get the more appropriate one across. If I could get the chance to speak with Chorost again, I'd ask him the following:

Facebook: A New Way to Construct Identity

Submitted by spreston on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 8:48pm

Facebook: A New Way to Construct Identity

Feminist Science Studies: Questions of Necessity

Submitted by Hillary G on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 1:46am

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I am admittedly kind of divided on the subject of feminist science studies. On the one hand, I love the idea of combining the sciences and the humanities (as I have been trying to figure out a career path that combines the two). There is definitely a place in the sciences for an examination of women’s role in developing the scientific field. We have been kept out of the highest positions in science for too long, and I admire those who are fighting to change that reality.

RL social construction

Submitted by phreNic on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 3:49am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCPr0w5QaIA

Intersection of Panel Personal Practices

Submitted by anonymous123 on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 12:39am

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During this week's panel, I noticed that gender played more of an important role in the personal practices of certain individuals versus others. Individuals such as Jess Dobkin (Marina) use their bodies as an important component of their practice, while the work of other individuals such as Michelle Obama (myself) is separate yet relevant to her work. The work of the first lady is centered around an ideal or a concept of how a woman should behave. As the first lady of the United States, Michelle is expected to conduct herself in a manner that is appropriate for the wife of a president.

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