activist media
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Read More: We Walked OutAbout an hour into my course on Feminist Spaces Online a student informed us that an absent class member had just texted her suggesting that we should leave class and…
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Read More: Anxiety Is a State of Media/Mind: On SCMS and Feminist BloggingI’ve returned from SCMS and Louisiana (having seen two alligators in the wild on a hike and eaten crawfish and shrimp in innumerable yummy formats) and would like to briefly…
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Read More: CulturalStudies with Toby Miller
Toby Miller, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside, chatted with me over tofu for his podcast, CULTURALSTUDIES. Since last summer, Toby has recorded meandering, lively and detailed…
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Read More: Distraction Span: call for contributionsMy dear friend and colleague Brian Goldfarb and I are co-editing a section of MediaCommons’ New Everyday on youth, media, and distraction. Our call begins: “We invite short, lively, multi-modal…
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Read More: On Rallies Real and Fake
I’ve been mulling over both my take and my stake in regards to the Rally to Restore Sanity and the recent and related Tea Party March on Washington, not to…
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Read More: SexMoneyMedia: Feminist AftershocksI had the honor to give a keynote address at this international symposium, sponsored by Women in View, an association of Canadian media professionals. An astoundingly diverse and powerful group…
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Read More: Nowhere and Everywhere: The Place of Feminism on YouTubeI gave a talk last week at Berkeley’s Gender Consortium that points towards the (non)place, and yet somehow real focus and locus, of my future work: the nowheres and everywheres…
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Read More: Mogul is De- and Re-Mobilized
I’ve worked with, written about, and been a fan of the work of Susan Mogul for quite awhile. A early practitioner of feminist video via her radical education at the…
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Read More: Documentary Dıspatch from TurkeyI have been tourıng Istanbul, wındıng down on wındıng roads from the jam-packed Vısıble Evıdence conference (on documentary). I can’t do justıce to the many strong panels I saw: testıment…
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Read More: Films for the Feminist Classroom: “The Owls”FFFC, a new on-line journal that is a side-project of SIGNS, has just published my article, “A Lesbian Collective Aesthetic: Making and Teaching The Owls.” By including the written and…