Category: Gender & Sexuality

  • Twenty Things Higher Ed Can Learn from the Parkland High School Kids #MarchforOurLives #REV

    Twenty Things Higher Ed Can Learn from the Parkland High School Kids #MarchforOurLives #REV

      What Higher Ed Can Learn from High School Activists #MarchforOurLives #REV   I’m thinking about yesterday’s #MarchforOurLives protest in DC and all over America, how it was organized by high school students who had endured the most unimaginable violence, and how they turned something horrific into something productive, violence against them into an action […]

  • First Blog: #ToStartAConversation

    First Blog: #ToStartAConversation

    *** Trigger Warning: This blog post and/or references, contains information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors. ***  #MeToo #TimesUp #WhyWeWearBlack #RapeCultureIsWhen #LarryNassar #HarvyWeinstein #RapeCrisis #SexualAssault #StanfordRapist #BaylorScandal #CampusSexualAssault #ThingsLongerThanBrockTurnersRapeSentence #WomensMarch #InvestigateUSAGymnastics  In the last year, many of these hashtags have circulated the internet and social media. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and even on websites that don’t typically use hashtags were covered with these phrases. […]

  • CCSWG18 Week 1 Write-Up: Gender + Programming Culture

    CCSWG18 Week 1 Write-Up: Gender + Programming Culture

    WEEK 1: GENDER + PROGRAMING CULTURE by Ali Rachel Pearl   Week 1 Threads: Week 1: COLOSSUS and LUMINARY: The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) Code Code and computer’s creativity? hmmm… posted by Giuseppe Torre of his “AI Prison” Axes by Margaret Hamilton posted by Mark Marino FLOW-MATIC posted by Mark Marino   Week 1— […]

  • Feminist Futurisms (a HASTAC@ASU Bibliography)

    Feminist Futurisms (a HASTAC@ASU Bibliography)

    In the Fall of 2018 Anne Hammang, Rebecca Monteleone, and Kaethe Selkirk joined me in a directed reading on the topic of “Feminist Futures.” While each comes to her scholarship with different foci, as a group they were eager to find common ground in critical feminist STS scholarship. Additionally, we were all interested in thinking about the […]

  • Fighting to Heal: How Survivors are Finding Strength in Martial Arts

    Fighting to Heal: How Survivors are Finding Strength in Martial Arts

    After 6 months of collecting stories about why women participate in combat sports, such as Muay Thai, kickboxing, judo, jiu-jitsu, MMA, and more, I started to review my findings and realized, without anticipating it, that many women were sharing stories of overcoming violence and trauma and using martial arts as an outlet and a means of healing. […]

  • Writing A Book In And Of Real Life: An interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom

    Writing A Book In And Of Real Life: An interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom

    The name of Tressie McMillan Cottom should be familiar to HASTAC Scholars. She is a HASTAC Steering Committee member. She was on The Daily Show, interviewed by Trevor Noah at http://www.cc.com/video-clips/nsqb7g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tre…. And she is a plenary speaker for this year’s HASTAC conference in Orlando, Florida, from November 2 through November 4, 2017, at http://hastac2017.org. During […]