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Arkansas abortion law
The following is pulled directly from a breaking New York Times story. Notice that ultrasound–a medical digital imaging process that pro-lifers often try to frame as objective–features prominently in the lede. “Arkansas adopted what is by far the country’s most restrictive ban on abortion on Wednesday — at 12 weeks of pregnancy, when a…
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The Right to Choose
I just spotted this headline on CNN.com: “Surrogate mother had right to choose.” (If you need the background for this short opinion piece, go here. The short version, though, is that a surrogate mother refused to abort her pregnancy when the parents asked her to.) While I certainly don’t agree with…
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Pedagogies of dissent
I’m still reviewing my notes from the Chandra Mohanty talk mentioned in my last post, and I came across her list of ideas for enacting pedagogies of dissent. As rendered through the lens of my perception (including my deciphering of my own handwriting): Connect the academy to transnational movements and…
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Sustainable travel
Some time ago, I attended a talk by Chandra Mohanty in which she mentioned that cosmopolitanism–and traveling, specifically–is a lifestyle that occurs at the expense of marginalized people who are incarcerated, or held in place, in order to make the system work. (Think, for example, of the many essays that…
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Teaching with Technology
Just searching for some new tech ideas for the Spring, and thought this was a pretty good one …
Erin Anne Clark 