perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
I’ve been getting fed up with university this semester. I’ve really gotten to the point where I don’t want to be there at all, and so I’m having huge trouble motivating myself to do anything uni-related when I’ve always got something more interesting to do.
I’ve taken some frustrating courses in my time, but this semester […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
There’s a piece of news I’ve been meaning to blog about for a few days: it seems that I’ve finally found an honours supervisor.
I’ve been planning for a while now to write my thesis on cissexual appropriation of trans identities, lives and experiences within queer and feminist theory. I’d always had the problem, however, that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
Finally, tonight, I need to rant. I have the course from utter hell this semester, and it just keeps getting worse and worse with every passing week. It’s the ultimate in ignorant, entitled white middle-class feminism mixed with quite a bit of plain there-are-no-words crazy, and after a string of “OH NO YOU DID NOT […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2008
I’m entering my last year of an undergraduate gender studies major at the moment, and as much as I love it, I’m getting increasingly frustrated with the way that it’s taught.
Women’s studies as a discipline is essentially dead in Australia - I don’t know of any university that still maintains an undergraduate department in it. […]