Here’s a teaser of my review of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist for Women in Higher Education. In the review essay, I describe my own ambivalence about the term “feminism” and my experiences being a feminist in academia. (Note to self: Some people are jerks.) This book is fabulous, and I would argue that what higher ed needs is more …
This is the big girl’s current favorite song. Awesome parent? Maybe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJjeWDvh6J0 Mary, Mary, quite contrary, we get bored and then get married… Kacey Musgraves’s “Merry Go ‘Round” lingers with me. I find myself humming this song in my office and singing it my car. Partially, it is her voice, but mostly, it is the haunting lyrics of the song that tap into my memories of …
Revisions are keeping me very busy these days, so the posting has been few and far between. My sincere apologies for my dastardly neglect. I could promise to be more faithful to this little blog, but why make promises that I know will fall apart when the fall semester starts anyway. I sent off one …
that I love this parody of “Call Me Maybe” (as does the big girl). Enjoy!
And rock out to some Skynard on me: Or some Aerosmith: Or even some AC/DC: http://youtu.be/0fSEjlLQcRY P.S. He’s cooler than all the other dads. P.P.S. All my bad habits, and much of my taste in music, come from him. Mostly.