May 2010
9 posts
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Academic Freedom: How Marquette Demonstrated Their...
[Last weekend, my brother and I had a conversation about Jodi O’Brien’s experience with Marquette, and I told him that if he wrote up his thoughts, I’d be happy to put them here. Now that he has, I’m even happier to: they’re well-considered, focused, and well expressed, which is why you should read this. But mostly you should read it because it’s important.
The...
“He told me “Being sustainable is living like you give a damn about the future.”
– from Wendy Joan’s Eat Media op-ed, “Sustainable Journalism and the Next Generation of Writers”
I like this piece, but this statement is wrong. Being sustainable is simpler to measure and more complicated to do: it’s just fucking surviving for a long time.* Valuing...
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“Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite...”
– Douglas Adams
RE: this:
1. Jodi O’Brien is a brilliant, challenging, and damn good professor, thinker, and person. She is funny, no-nonsense, compassionate, and memorable.
2. In class, she pointed out that “gay marriage” as it’s currently discussed gives her major pause, not because the privileges of marriage shouldn’t be extended to gay people or because of theological reasons,...
Marquette Withdraws Job... →
I took Jodi O’Brien’s Sexual Politics class in my last quarter at Seattle U. We covered basic feminism, sex work, gay marriage, and more—but mostly, she demanded that we deal with gender theory. In that class, I had to think about what it meant to be female, to be feminine, to be a person in a heteronormative world. She made us think about the concept and the realities of sex...
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Wild Geese →
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile…
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