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Welcome to our March issue of the SSME Bulletin. For college students all across the country, March means one thing … Spring Break. This year our spring break here at UT runs from March 10-14. And while UT students don't have to actively seek a warmer climate for their spring break; they certainly cherish their break nonetheless.
Seldom however do we think about how our college faculty members utilize this important time. For many faculty members spring break serves as an important half-time marker in the semester; but more importantly when the students return from their break, there always seems to be a steady rush toward the end of the academic year. So in many ways faculty members utilize this down time to reassess the pace of their classes and make whatever adjustments they may need to ensure a smooth march to the finish line.
And speaking of the finish line, let's not forget that we will all shortly be wishing our graduating seniors a fond farewell as we assemble in the Tampa Bay Times Forum on May 10 for The University of Tampa's 136th Commencement. This year an estimated 900 students will be participating, with close to 200 of them receiving a degree conferred by our College of Social Sciences, Mathematics and Education. Many faculty, students and university administrators throughout higher education agree that spring commencement is the best day of the year; and I certainly can't argue with that!
So with that said, I hope you find the articles and activities described below informative and of interest. These activities simply confirm what I already knew and profess as I near the completion of my first year as Dean; that our college is comprised of extraordinary students from all across the country and across the globe, being mentored by a well-credentialed and engaged faculty. They are a faculty closely engaged with their students; engaged in their disciplinary scholarship; and engaged in our Tampa Bay community. Needless to say, it has been a great first year for me here at the University of Tampa.
Jack Geller, Dean
Bringing Together Descendants of Nazis and Holocaust Victims to Discover Healing
On January 23, 2014, students in Dr. Susan Brinkley's Death Penalty and Comparative Criminal Justice Systems courses learned firsthand about the difficulties of being German after World War II from Dr. Martina Emme, founder of One-by-One. One-by-One is an organization that brings descendants of Nazis together with descendants of Holocaust victims and the German resistance in an effort to address the guilt, shame, revenge and hatred of the participants while working toward forgiveness.
Because of her own family's reluctance to answer questions regarding the pre-war and war years, Dr. Emme began investigating her family's role in the war. Her investigation discovered that her family was complicit in some key events and the revelation that her grandfather worked for the Gestapo led her to help found One-by-One.
Dr. Emme opened up the floor for questions after her presentation. One question in particular that piqued much interest related to the bronze Stolperstein or Stumble Stones that are placed in the sidewalks of many German cities. Each Stolperstein lists the name, date of birth and death (if available) of a Holocaust victim and is placed as close to the original home of the victim as possible. These stones provide a public memorial for a loved one where no grave exists.
Dr. Brinkley and several Criminology and Criminal Justice students will have the opportunity to meet again with Dr. Emme during the 2015 education abroad course to Western and Central Europe. This course will provide students the opportunity to study not only the criminal justice systems of each country visited, but also to introduce the human rights issues that have haunted that area of the world.
Dr. Brinkley would like to thank all the sponsoring colleges and offices of Dr. Emme's visit, with special thanks to Deans Geller and Mardirosian for helping arrange for Dr. Emme's visit to her class.
Graduate Students in the Instructional Design & Technology Program Participate in Professional Internships!
During the Fall 2014 semester, Instructional Design & Technology students Michelle Schumacher and Diane Olsen secured professional instructional design internships at Artisan E-Learning. The opportunity to participate in this internship was the results of their involvement with the local chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). During one of the events hosted by the local chapter of ASTD Michelle and Diane met Nick Elkins, ASTD's Webinar Chair and a member of Artisan E-Learning's management team who encouraged the two students to interview for a paid internship. Both Michelle and Diane were asked to start their internships at the beginning of the Fall 2013 semester working on average 20 hours per week.
"The entire internship was conducted digitally at a distance. Artisan has an existing client for whom they are building online lessons from existing instructor led training materials (Michelle)." As part of their internship, Michelle and Diane were responsible for producing one of these lessons from beginning to end. The process involved familiarizing themselves with "the client's instructor led materials; being prepared to pose any questions to our client during a weekly conference call; utilizing our project manager as a resource for additional questions throughout the design and development process; pulling all of the information together in order to write a cohesive storyboard; selecting graphics; and learning and building the lesson in Articulate Storyline." Overall, the experience has been very positive for the students. According to Michelle, "It's by far the most-hands on, real- world experience I've received thus far during my time in the program. I'm learning this whole process from beginning to end, including the use of the Storyline software, and best of all, I'm get paid for it! It's been an awesome opportunity for which I am very grateful. I'm only half way through my graduate studies, yet I can legitimately call myself an instructional designer because I am working on an actual deliverable online lesson that will be used by paying customers."
Faculty Spotlight
New to the University of Tampa this year is Dr. Renee Patrick, assistant professor of psychology. Dr. Patrick is a developmental psychologist who enjoys teaching Child Psychology, Adulthood & Aging, and Statistics & Experimental Research Methods. Her research agenda focuses on the factors that contribute to children's social and antisocial behavior. "I am especially interested in the relation of parenting, peers, moral reasoning/identity, emotion (empathy), and culture-related variables to the social development in children." Dr. Patrick's most current project concerns children's moral identity and judgment as it relates to active defending in bullying situations. In 2014, she will be presenting the findings from her study at the Association for Psychological Science 26th Annual Conference in San Francisco, California. If you would like to contact Dr. Patrick, email her at email@example.com.
Student Spotlight
For her Senior Seminar during the Fall 2013 semester mathematics major Betsie Last, combined her love of sports with her love of mathematics. As a high school student in Maryland Betsie enjoyed playing soccer and softball. As a result she decided to study "Sabermetrics" for her Senior Seminar in mathematics. In "Sabermetrics", the number of runs allowed and runs scored are applied to the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball in order to predict a team's winning percentage. Under the guidance of Dr. Leslie Jones, Betsie studied past models of the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball used in Sabermetrics and analyzed her collected data. She discovered the second-order Taylor expansion of the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball was a statistically significant improvement to the results of the first-order approximation of M. Jones and L. Tappin.
After graduating from the University of Tampa, Betsie plans to attend graduate school at either the Georgia Institute of Technology or Tulane University in pursuit of a Master's degree in mathematics.
Kagan Cooperative Learning Workshop
Thanks to a partnership with the Herff Jones Corporation, all of the second semester junior and senior education students, along with our faculty participated in a full day Kagan Cooperative Learning workshop in the Fletcher Lounge on January 21st.
Dr. Kagan, a clinical psychologist and researcher started training teachers in cooperative learning back in 1969. He developed his cooperative learning strategies because students who wanted to move and talk during class were typically viewed as discipline problems. He found that when students were having fun and interacting there were far fewer discipline issues. Spencer Kagan's materials have now been translated into six languages. Win-Win Discipline and cooperative learning techniques are used widely throughout Singapore and Netherlands.
Below is the framework of a Kagan Cooperative Learning Workshop:
For more information, go to kaganonline.com.
Mastering Math
Dr. Leslie Jones, assistant professor of mathematics, Colleen Beaudoin, Instructor of mathematics, and Dr. Dan Huber, associate professor of biology comprise the University of Tampa's Science Math Master Geometry team. Science Math Master provides skill-building workshops for Biology and Geometry teachers throughout the State of Florida. Following are the topics presented during each of the Geometry workshops:
On-line resources, including modules, videos, coursework examples, demonstration ideas and curriculum tools, are also available to teachers through the program. The program endeavors to enhance high school students' performance in science and mathematics in order to prepare them for future education and career challenges. To find out more about this innovating program, please visit http://waggett.weebly.com/science-math-master.html
SSME Faculty Awards and Accolades
Promotion and Tenure
On Tuesday, January 23rd, the University of Tampa Board of Trustees approved the following CSSME faculty for tenure and/or promotion:
Promoted to Rank of Associate Professor with Tenure
Dr. Patricia Johnston, Assistant Professor, Education
Dr. Patricia O'Grady, Assistant Professor, Education
Dr. Denis Rey, Assistant Professor, Government and World Affairs
Dr. Tammy Schimmel, Assistant Professor, Education
Promoted to Rank of Professor
Dr. Alisa Smith, Associate Professor, Law and Justice
A reception will be held on Thursday, March 20th, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Plant Hall's Grand Salon to honor these faculty members. Congratulations to our newly tenured and promoted faculty!
Sharing Her Expertise in the Teaching Community
Patty O'Grady, associate professor of education, is a featured expert whose interview will be included as part of an online neuroscience primer targeting practicing teachers who want to incorporate neuro-anatomy, learning, science, and teacher practice. The Phoenix Rising School, the Olympia Waldorf School, and the University of Washington's College of Education are developing and launching this educator resource as a project of the Northwest Association of Independent schools Fellowship for Collaborative Innovation. The free online course will include readings, a narrated PowerPoint lecture presentation, related videos, and expert interviews.
Featured Faculty
National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth recently featured a study coauthored by Kathryn Branch, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice, "Examining Parental and Peer Social Support as a Buffer Between Dating Violence Victimization and Negative Outcomes Among Female Adolescents" in the research summary, "Research Roundup: Friends and Caregivers Help Young People Avoid, Recover From Violence". The research summary can be viewed at the following link:
Associate professor of sociology, Ryan Cragun's article "The Oprah-Nyad Affair" was published in the January/February 2014 issue of The Humanist magazine and can be viewed at: http://thehumanist.com/magazine/january-february-2014/features/the-oprah-nyad-affair
Erin Koterba, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored "Object exploration at 6 and 9 months in infants with and without risk for autism," which was published in the February 2014 issue of Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice. The article can be viewed at http://aut.sagepub.com/content/18/2/97
A recent Florida Bar Association article highlighted the Florida State Senate testimony and recent law review article of Alisa Smith, Associate Professor of Law and Justice regarding a bill that would increase the number of jurors on life-felony cases from 6 to 12. As a follow-up, after Dr. Smith's testimony the bill easily passed through the Senate Committee.
SSME Faculty and Students on the Move
Criminology Faculty Give Presentations at ACJS Annual Meeting
Kathryn Branch, Susan Brinkley, and Sean Maddan of the Criminology department gave academic presentations at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 51st Annual Meeting: "Perceptions of Crime and Justice" in Philadelphia February 18 - 22, 2014.
Susan Brinkley presented her paper, "Human Rights Issues in European Prisons". Dr. Brinkley explored some of the human rights violations that have been reported in European prisons and their outcomes. These reports were also compared with prisoner rights cases in the United States. A comparison was offered on the resolution of complaints.
Sean Maddan with Richard Hartley of the University of Texas discussed the focal concerns perspective, which is the dominant theoretical framework used to explain sentencing disparities, during their presentation titled "Federal Sentencing Practices and the Focal Concerns Perspective". Usage of the focal concerns perspective can explain the differences in sentences meted out to females, non-whites, and Hispanics. Drs. Hartley and Maddan discussed how utilization of federal sentencing data could help in more effectively modeling the concepts associated with the focal concerns perspective and also the associated policy implications.
Kathryn Branch along with colleagues from the University of Baltimore and the University of Delaware presented "Faculty Perceptions and Utilization of the Clery Act During Student Disclosures of Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization". The presentation examined whether the Clery Act's mandate has changed university faculty's crime reporting behavior and also faculty's perceptions regarding the impact of the act on student victims.
Dr. Branch also presented "An Examination of Rape Myths in Comic Books" along with colleagues from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. This presentation examined the prevalence of rape in comic books and the myths used to create such portrayals and discussed the negative impact the perpetuation of rape culture has on society.
UT Students Visit Cuba
UT students enrolled in GWAH 265, Revolutionary Cuba, visited Cuba during winter break after learning about the political, economic and cultural aspects over the fall semester. Students spent 12 days traversing the island, from Baracoa to Havana, visiting cultural and historic sites, engaging in conversations with citizens, and interacting with representatives of governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The students also had the rare opportunity of attending a baseball game between the University of Tampa and Artemisa Hunters. A few of the students were able to share their impressions of Cuban society at a recent Honors Symposium held on January 28th. During the symposium Jacob Loken, Kimberly Gordon, Maritza Jamarillo, and Anna Lee Haragan reflected on the natural beauty, receptiveness of the people, and economic hardships endured by all Cubans. Drs. Lopez and Rey plan to offer a new May Term travel course this year, Cuba and the US: Then and Now, that will be taught at the Centro de Estudious Martianos in Havana. Students will receive instruction from both UT and Cuban professors during the two-week session.
Additional Faculty Scholarship
Mary Anderson and Kevin Fridy, associate professors of government and world affairs presented "A Study of The Sense of Community Index in Ghana" at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in January 2014.
William Myers, assistant professor of government and world affairs, will be attending the Florida Political Science Association Conference in St. Augustine March 7th - 9th. Dr. Myers will present "Making the Electoral Connection to Judicial Review" as part of a section on Comparative Politics: The Role of Institutions.
Patty O'Grady, associate professor of education, will present the "Language of Positive Psychology" at the Young Child Expo in New York in April 2014 at the New Yorker Hotel. This international conference on early childhood education is a joint project of Fordham University and Los Ninos Services. Sponsors include NLPA, NAC, NYASP, NYU Langone Medical Center Child Study Center, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied Psychology, Teach for America, and others.
Spencer Segalla, associate professor of history, recently attended the American Historical Association's 128th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. Segalla presented his paper, "The Decolonization of the Dead: Exhumation and Repatriation after the 1960 Agadir Earthquake".
Michael Stasio, associate professor of psychology, will be attending the Southeastern Psychological Association's 60th Annual Meeting on March 5th - 8th. Dr. Stasio along with University of Tampa psychology major, Victoria Lopez, will be presenting "Perfectionism Related to Body Image Concerns and Social Judgments".
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Montana Emergency Management Training - Updated 8 August 2014
1. The Yellowstone Co. LEPC is hosting a three-day workshop for All-Hazard IMT personnel on Sep. 16-18. This is funded in part through a Homeland Security Grant administered by the Montana Fire Chief's Association. This is a chance for personnel to hone their position-specific skills, e.g. Planning Section Chief, with mentors in a structured environment--and the workshop will conclude with a final capstone exercise. Please note: Attendance is not restricted to members of standing AH IMTs and/or those who perform at a Type 3 level or higher. The intent of the grant was to assist with a local incident management capability—anyone with responsibilities for one or more of the Command and General Staff positions during an incident or EOC activation should consider attending. There is some travel reimbursement available as well.
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3. National funding for the RDPC Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents 8-hour course continues to be a challenge. Currently, we have one delivery scheduled for Kalispell on Sept. 19th, see the calender for a link to the course description and details or register here.
4. We send many students from fire, law enforcement, and health care to the Center for Domestic Preparedness Training Campus in Anniston, Alabama. The quality of training is superb and CDP provides all travel, lodging, and meals to students from Tribal, city, county, and state jurisdictions—as well as affiliated private/and volunteer organizations with a role in local emergency response or management. The specific offerings are too numerous to list, but in general the CDP offers hands-on training and exercises in HAZMAT response, field tactics for law enforcement, EMS/health care leadership and crisis, public information, and many other topics. Please see the main training page here: https://cdp.dhs.gov/training/resident/ I can assist with applications. (Note these classes fill fast).
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Whether driving to services this morning or just trying to clear a driveway, that Sunday morning snow was something Eastern Iowans couldn't avoid.
It must be a running joke from higher powers. More salt is needed on the roads as another layer of snow covers Eastern Iowa.
"Its wet, perfect for snowmen," Jill Mrazek of Ely said.
She said she wouldn't call all of this shoveling a perfect Sunday morning.
"I was hoping for some 60 degree weather, but it just doesn't seem to want to come," Mzarek said
As snow easily decorates the trees and bare limbs, people scurried through the morning's errands, running from flurries instead of basking under a warm, spring sun.
"We have a brand new patio I want to use, and I'm really frustrated that spring's not here yet," Leslie Buscher of Cedar Rapids said.
The calendar and the weather don't seem to be on the same page, but many Eastern Iowans agree with Leslie Buscher. They're not pleased about a late March weekend that looks more like a Sunday back in mid-January than an early Spring.
Mike Buscher hopes that means the gift of warmth is on its way.
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Body lice are tiny insects (Pediculus humanus corporis) that are spread through close contact with other people.
Two other types of lice are:
Lice - body; Pediculosis; Vagabond's disease
Body lice live in the seams and folds of clothing. They feed on human blood and lay their eggs and deposit waste matter on the skin and clothing.
You can catch body lice if you come in direct contact with someone who has lice. You can also get lice from infected clothing, towels, or bedding.
Body lice are bigger than other types of lice.
You are more likely to get body lice if you do not bathe and wash your clothes often or live in close (overcrowded) conditions. Lice are unlikely to last if you:
Placing clothes in a hot dryer helps kill lice on clothing.
Lice causes severe itching. Itching is usually worse around the waist, under the arms, and places where clothing is tighter and closer to the body (such as near bra straps).
You may have red bumps on your skin. The bumps may scab or become crusty after scratching.
Skin around the waist or groin may become thickened or change color if you have been infected with lice in that area for a long time.
Your doctor will look at your skin and clothing for signs of lice.
You should also be checked for head and public lice if you have body lice.
Body lice mainly live in clothing. To get rid of lice, destroy infected clothing or carefully wash items in hot water (at least 130 degrees F), then machine dry using a hot cycle.
Your doctor may also prescribe a cream that you put on your skin or a wash that contains permethrin, malathione, or benzyl alcohol.
Bathing and washing clothes, bedding, and towels are most important steps in treating lice. Doing these things usually gets rid of the problem.
With effective treatment, the lice can be completely destroyed.
Scratching can make your skin more likely to become infected. Rarely, lice may carry uncommon diseases, such as trench fever. Because body lice spreads easily to others, people you live with and sexual partners need to be treated as well.
Call your health care provider if you have lice in your clothing or itching that does not go away.
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Diaz JH. Lice (pediculosis). In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 293.
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The Vasco Núñez de Balboa hall in the El Panama hotel will serve as the event venue. This athletic event is being organized by the Panamanian Federation of Associated Wrestling and the Panamanian Sports Institute (Pandeportes), with the endorsement of the Pan American Federation and the World Federation.
In its bid to host the event, Panama had to compete against countries like the United States and Colombia. The deciding factors that led to our country being chosen to organize the championship were technology, transportation, communication and services to provide accommodation and meals for the athletes, coaches and delegates who will participate in the three days of competition.
Augusto Batista, president of the Panamanian Wrestling Federation, explained that Olympic-level competitors will be wrestling in this championship, and that Panama will be represented by a delegation of 27 people, among athletes, coaches and delegates.
"The ideals of the sport of wrestling will be seen at its best during this unique opportunity to watch real wrestlers, in a competition where athletes of excellent quality, technique and skill will participate, with admission completely free for Panamanians," said Batista.


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With the coming of spring, students enjoy the Conococheague Creek for leisure activities. But, they also litter without realizing the far-reaching, ecological impact of their actions on the Chesapeake Bay. Asst. Prof. of Environmental Studies, Edward Wells challenges his Ecological Perspectives class to think locally as they develop semester-long, senior projects to improve the Bay's declining health.
Most of the students chose a subject relating to water quality as their research topic. Tina Brown '12 is interested in pharmaceutical waste and its consequences for the Bay's ecology. "Even common medication, like ibuprofen, doesn't get filtered out of our water during treatment. It is passed into local streams and then goes into the Bay," says Brown.
"I like students to do real world things, to get involved in real issues and their community, not to just write a paper and then forget about the topic," says Wells.
Student projects for the Ecological Perspectives class:
Difficult Projects Have Lasting Impact
Students admit difficulties in starting their projects. "Just finding resources is tough," says Alicia Mills '12. Her goal is to make the public aware of an obscure, but very useful fish called menhaden.
Despite the challenges, the students appreciate their work's value. Lois Collingwood '12 intends to gain experience for her future career in education. She is developing an education plan for Pa. schools. "Lessons exist for the Bay now, but they come from Maryland. Pennsylvania requires a different standard," she says.
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Wells allowed his class to choose the ecological area for study. "Everyone agreed on the Chesapeake Bay. I didn't have much experience with the Bay, but I knew that it had many impacts, like education, legislation, and pollution. The students would be able to focus their projects based on their individual interests," says Wells.
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Fresno escapes over Cowgirls
Mar 17, 2013 - The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS -- Univers-ity of Wyoming sophomore Kayla Woodward is the Cowgirls' go-to player in game-winning situations. For Fresno State, it's junior Ki-Ki Moore.
Both all-conference performers came through with big hoops late in their Mountain West Tournament semifinal matchup in Las Vegas on Friday.
Moore's big shot came just after Woodward's.
Moore hit a driving jumper with 2.5 seconds left to give Fresno State the lead, and when Wyoming's Chelan Landry narrowly missed a three-quarter court shot, the Bulldogs escaped with a 63-62 win.
Wyoming (24-7) will wait until Monday night to see about their postseason hopes. Fresno State (23-8) advances to the conference title game at 8 p.m. today against San Diego State.
"Against Colorado State (a 60-58 win by UW in Thursday's quarterfinals) we made one play and had the ball bounce our way," UW coach Joe Legerski said. "They (Fresno State) made one more play and we just came up so very short."
Woodward almost personally stole this one from the Bulldogs.
The former Sheridan star kept the Cowgirls in the game in the first half when it looked like FSU might run away with it.
Woodward scored 12 of her game-high 22 points in a first half in which the Bulldogs led by as many as 10 points. The Cowgirls trailed 34-31 at the break.
Fresno State again showed signs of pulling away in the second half, building a 55-46 lead with a little more than eight minutes to go.
With the Cowgirls flirting with a blowout loss, UW senior Chaundra Sewell responded.
Sewell scored nine points in a 14-6 Wyoming run to pull the Cowgirls within a point with 57.9 seconds remaining.
After Moore missed a shot in the paint, the Cowgirls got the ball with 35 seconds left. UW called timeout at 16.9 seconds to draw up a play.
Off the inbounds pass, Woodward got the ball at the top of the key and the shot clock showing less than 10 seconds. Woodward blew past her defender and scored on a layup with 13.7 seconds to go for a 62-61 UW lead.
"It was just whoever was open," Woodward said. "But I knew we needed a basket so I just tried to be aggressive."


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text: Trace Adkins broke his foot and thanks to social media we get to see a disgusting photo of it. Here's the photo he posted on Instagram. Trace didn't mention what happened, he only wrote, quote, "This is gross. Broke my foot the other day. Still kinda hurts." Looks to me like he could use a good pedicure as well!


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Who will miss figment or yoyo when they are gone!?!?!
Who will miss figment or yoyo when they are gone!?!?!
i haven't really gotten to know them but yoyo is my friend so i may miss him. And i have never met figment so..
WHEN THEY"RE GONE?!!?!?!!? what do you mean!!!
Where Are They Going@!!!!
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Calm down people. Figment, Yoyoflamingo, BigPigletFan and myself are having a mice chat meet at WDW this weekend. So they will only be gone for a few days.
Figment will be gone 5 days, yoyo 7 days and me 10 days - sorta. I won't be far, so play nice!Originally Posted by SummerInFL
Awww I will miss them both dearly <33
I'm not going to have anyone to play with on vmk (except for summer! )
Have fun in WDW, BPF, Figment, & Yoyo! We will all miss you!
Bring back lots of pics!
& Summer we'll miss you on sunday
When do you all leave?
So far this is how I get this..
BPF: Tomorrow
Figment: Tomorrow
Yoyo: Sunday
Summer: ?
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Figment, Friday. Summer, just Sunday I believe.Originally Posted by pinkCHICLETT
I should host a Small VMK DLR meet this weekend.
I dont know what I will do while there gone
I will have no one to play with on vmk (except pink and summer)
Aww me and summer are here for you
I just saw QA_caffdawg. She was in castle forecourt.
Or, you could go to the Micechat meet every sunday in the Hub at noon....Originally Posted by barfownz
Whatever works...


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YOU could call it a batty idea, but bats seem to be more closely related to horses than cows are.
Once thought to belong to the same group as primates, bats actually belong to the super-order Pegasoferae, which contains horses, cats and dogs, cows, whales and hedgehogs. Within this group, bats were thought to be only distant cousins to horses, but DNA analysis suggests that only cats and dogs are more closely related to horses than bats are (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0603797103).
"I think this will be a surprise for many scientists," says Norihiro Okada at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. "No one expected this."
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African leaders from three regional economic blocs are due to hold a historic joint summit in Uganda this month to harmonise regional integration policies and programmes in a move that may give fresh impetus to the long-conceived goal of an African Economic Community.
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will meet in the Ugandan capital Kampala on 20 October to, among other issues, resolve an overlapping membership conundrum that has threatened to derail efforts at deeper economic integration.
Membership overlaps exist among all three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) which plan to create customs unions, a situation that presents technical challenges as a country cannot belong to more than one customs union.
Eight SADC members -- the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe -- also belong to COMESA, while Angola is a member of the Economic Community of Central African States and Tanzania belongs to the EAC.
With Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland being members of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), only one out of the 15 SADC member states is a member of a single REC - and that is Mozambique.
Four out of five EAC members -- Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda -- belong to COMESA, the exception being Tanzania.
Yet SADC, COMESA and EAC either plan to create customs unions or have already declared one.
The three RECs have all attained Free Trade Area (FTA) status, the first major step towards creating a customs union. In an FTA, members agree to remove tariffs and non-tariff barriers on most, if not all, trading among them. Similarly, in a customs union, members agree among other issues, to charge a common external tariff to third countries.
The EAC is the most advanced of the three RECs, having already launched its customs union while COMESA plans to have its own by December this year.
SADC has just launched its FTA (in August this year) and plans to create a customs union by 2010.
Since all SACU members belong to SADC, it does not present much of a technical problem as the SACU arrangement automatically falls away with the creation of a SADC customs union.
However, real problems exist between SADC countries' membership to either COMESA or the EAC.
The tripartite summit is expected to address some of these challenges and possibly agree on a framework that would allow for the creation of a grand FTA and customs union from Cape to Cairo.
If successful, the plan would merge as many as 26 African countries into a single trading zone, opening borders for literally half of the continent spanning the entire southern and eastern regions of Africa from South Africa to Egypt.
That would be a formidable economic bloc with a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$625 billion.
And with a combined population of 527 million, it comes as no surprise that the joint summit will be seeking to facilitate easier movement of people across borders.
COMESA, EAC and SADC are three of the eight RECs that are officially recognized by the African Union (AU), and seen as building blocks of the envisaged African Economic Community.
Secretariats of the three RECs were optimistic about the prospects of forming a single trading zone when they met last month to work out logistics and finalise the agenda for the summit.
"The EAC-SADC-COMESA Summit is considered historic because for the first time since the birth of the AU, key building blocks of the African Economic Community are meeting on how to integrate territories and moving towards deepening and widening integration within the overall Abuja Treaty for the establishment of the African Economic Community," said a statement issued after the preparatory meeting held in September in Nairobi, Kenya.
The preparatory meeting was attended by Juma Mwapachu, Secretary General of the EAC, Stephen Karangizi, COMESA Assistant Secretary General and Joao Caholo, SADC Deputy Executive Secretary.
"The summit is expected to decide on matters related to enhancing cooperation among EAC, COMESA and SADC, including deepening trade, investments, and infrastructure, linking transport corridors, promoting joint projects to boost industrialization of agriculture and food security as well as enabling free movement of people between the three RECs with the ultimate aim of creating a single market and investment area," reads the statement in part.
The treaty establishing the African Economic Community, popularly known as the Abuja Treaty, was signed in 1991 by leaders of the Organisation of African Unity, the precursor to the AU. The treaty envisages a continental economic zone by 2028, gradually built upon merging of the many RECs across the African continent.
Thus the creation of a single market and investment area involving half of the continent in COMESA, EAC and SADC would represent a major step towards the continental target. sardc.net


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Love scenes in America are getting even worse
Mick LaSalle, Hearst | April 29, 2014
The best love scenes in cinemaThe Dreamers: Basically anything with Eva Green in it qualifies. This is the Bertolucci film, also one of the best movies of the last decade.
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART -- by popular demand.
MASQUERADE -- Rob Lowe and Meg Tilley in 1988.
Desire: A French erotic drama from 2011, starring Deborah Revy (above). Wow.
En La Cama -- the whole movie, from Chile, is one extended sex scene, with breaks for conversation.
Photo By Takashi SeidaA History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello -- always lucky with her lovers.
NINE 1/2 WEEKS, with Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger.
Photo By HOBound -- memorable for the lesbian love scene between Jennifer Tilley and Gina Gershon.
BASIC INSTINCT, Jean Tripplehorn, and Michael Douglas.
Photo By KIMBERLY FRENCH/ASSOCIATED PRESSHeath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in a scene from Brokeback Mountain.
Y Tu Mama Tambien: At the time of its release, Carla Meyer wrote, To call Y Tu Mama Tambien sexually explicit doesn't do it justice. The Mexican movie is sexually obsessed, just like its teenage protagonists.
Last Tango in Paris -- with Brando and Maria Schneider.
Jenny Agutter (above) -- She was in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and had an interlude with David Naughton.
Photo By Getty ImagesSHOWGIRLS -- a very good suggestion for its very BAD sex scenes, especially the hysterically funny one in the swimming pool.
MA MERE: A bad sex extravaganza starring Isabelle Huppert, in which she has sex with her own son -- and commits suicide at the same time. Talk about screwing up a guy for life.
Rachel Weisz and Jude Law in Enemy at the Gates, about Stalingrad.
Photo By HANDOUT/SFCMullholland Drive: You know the scene. It's the one everyone skips to.
Photo By Francois Durand/Getty ImagesAn Affair of Love -- with Nathalie Baye (above).
Aitana Sanchez Gijon (and Javier Bardem) in MOUTH TO MOUTH. This film was supposed to open (many years ago) in San Francisco -- and never did. But it does have five good minutes.
The Piano Teacher -- features great depictions of really, really bad sex.
Victoria Abril (above) appeared in Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down by Almodovar.
Juliette Binoche (above) in DAMAGE. Personally, I think the scene in which Binoche and Jeremy Irons have sex and he starts squawking like a duck is comical, but to each his own.
Photo By APCharlotte Rampling and Mickey Rourke in the film Angel Heart in 1987.
ATONEMENT -- with Keira Knightley -- was suggested for the scene in the library.
Photo By Time & Life Pictures/Time Life Pictures/Getty ImagesEllen Barkin, photographed a few years before SEA OF LOVE, chosen by one of our readers.
Photo By courtesy Outsider ProductionsVelvet Goldmine -- from the days of glam rock or what was called the glitter era.
The Hunger (with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon). For the lesbian love scene, rare for the early 1980s.
Photo By ho/HandoutBeatrice Dalle in Betty Blue.
Greta Gerwig (above) and Ben Stiller in Greenberg: Another example of really bad movie sex.
The Cooler: Maria Bello always finds attentive lovers in her films, as in this one, co-starring William H. Macy.
Secretary: James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal in a good example of BAD sex in the movies.
Paz Vega in SEX AND LUCIA.
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY -- Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster. Not exactly sex, but we get the idea.
Photo By SarisSophie Marceau and Jacques Dutronc in MY NIGHTS ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOUR DAYS. And they may be right.
Erotique: An erotic gem from the 1990s, barely known today.
Photo By EMIAntares: In Gotz Spielmann's films, sex scenes are not just about sex. They provide pivotal moments of character revelation.
Michael Fassbender in Shame. Readers approve.
FINGERS: OK, the still is from Fingers, but the sex scene that's memorable does not involve Tisa Farrow but Keitel and Tanya Roberts.
Friday Night
Naked Killer -- Carrie Ng and Madoka Sugawawa in the second of two classic sex scenes in Naked Killer
Henry and June -- which got an NC-17 rating.
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING was suggested, for Juliette Binoche, depicted here years later.
Wide Sargasso Sea was recommended for Karina Lombard -- seen here, ten years later and definitely not mellowed, on the cable show The L Word.
Photo By JIM COOPERLinda Fiorentino -- unforgettable in THE LAST SEDUCTION.
LUST, CAUTION: I found these scenes un-erotic -- so graphic they made me feel uncomfortable for the actors. But others saw it differently.
Dangerous Game with Madonna.
Joanna Pacula (with William Hurt) in GORKY PARK.
Bulletproof Heart (for the love scene with Mimi Rogers, above).
Photo By HANDOUT/SFCMONSTER'S BALL -- the great sex scene won Halle Berry the Oscar.
Chingmy Yau (with Simon Yam) in Naked Killer.
WILD THINGS -- of course -- with Denise Richards and Neve Campbell.
Photo By Jay MaidmentCasino Royale -- Eva Green and Daniel Craig.
Photo By SFCOut of Sight -- the scene between Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney was mentioned by several people.
Photo By Warner Bros. 1966ECSTASY -- Hedy Lamarr in a groundbreaking sex scene from 1933.
Photo By LARRY HORRICKS/ASSOCIATED PRESSVera Farmiga and Paul Walker in Running Scared: Happily married.
Photo By Sophie Muller/SonyRevanche -- incidentally one of the best films of the last ten years, from Austrian director Gotz Spielmann.
sex, lies and videotape, with Andie McDowell. Here she is, at the 20th anniversary screening of the film.
Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels in SOMETHING WILD.
Photo By MELINDA SUE GORDON C2004/ASSOCIATED PRESSTEAM AMERICA -- lots of interest in the doll pornography.
THE BIG EASY: 25 years later, the ONLY thing anybody remembers from this movie, with Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid, is the bedroom scene.
Photo By Columbia Pictures/PhotofestJulie Christie (depicted here in Steven Rea's Hollywood Rides a Bike) in DON'T LOOK NOW.
Photo By Paramount 1976/Paramount PicturesINGRID BOULTING AND ROBERT DE NIRO IN THE LAST TYCOON
Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson wrecking the house in their big scene from THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
THE TWO JAKES, with Jack Nicholson.
Jane March (above) in THE LOVER (with Tony Leung).
Thelma and Louise -- for the scene with Brad Pitt.
Photo By HANDOUT/SFCSophie Marceau in Firelight.
Unfaithful -- this was cited by several people. It's one of the most memorable sex scenes of the last ten years, largely to do with the way director Adrian Lyne chose to edit it.
Photo By APThis is here because someone recommended UP IN THE AIR, but I don't remember a sex scene in it.
Photo By HOWalk On the Moon -- with Diane Lane.
Wedding Crashers -- sex in between the hijinks.
Young Adam. By popular demand.
Photo By GEMMA LAMANA-WILLS/ASSOCIATED PRESSSean Young and Kevin Costner in No Way Out.
For decades, love scenes in American movies have been the worst in the western world. They usually take place solely as a plot point, before the characters get to know each other, so there's no quality of longing about them. They often take place standing up — don't try that at home –which is invariably presented as the easiest thing in the world to do, because, according to the movies, American women never wear any undergarments below the waist.
Or, if in a comedy, the sex usually takes place only after two people, in their lust, destroy an entire apartment and presumably have sex with the apartment door open.
There are sociological reasons for both tendencies, which I wrote about THE BEAUTY OF THE REAL, but that's not the topic under discussion now. What I want to talk about is how American movie sex scenes have recently managed to take a turn for the worse, as though that were possible.
The new trend in Hollywood movies is to show people having sex for the first time . . . with the woman fully clothed.
Now this is not a plea for more nudity. Shut the lights, pull up the sheets, have the lovers go under the covers, shoot from behind furniture — all that is fine. And all those options are available if the actress doesn't want to take her clothes off. That's perfectly reasonable. If I were an actress, I wouldn't want to take my clothes off, either. But please don't insult our intelligence and don't misrepresent sex as it's actually practiced in America. It is giving the rest of the world a really strange impression of us.
This trend has been around for a while but bubbled to public awareness in KNOCKED UP, in the early scene where Katherine Heigl leaves her underwear on while having sex with Seth Rogen. This struck me at the time as quite an oversight on the part of the character played by Rogen, indicating extreme impatience and a profound lack of curiosity.
But it was brought to mind again watching John Turturro, as a male prostitute, have a fully clothed menage a trois with Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara in the upcoming FADING GIGOLO.
Again, this is not a plea for nudity. Shoot it in some way that we don't see anything. But don't present a sex scene that makes us think the women are weird and the man is downright demented. Instead of watching the scene, I'm thinking, "What is wrong with this guy? When did he die, and why he still able to walk and talk?"
I can only wonder what European women must expect when they arrive in the United States.


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This essay from Mattilda's Nobody Passes starts out with a brief history of the Battered Women's Movement, its emergence from the second wave of feminism and subsequent "victories" throughout the last forty years. What the author, Priya Kandaswamy, seeks to highlight is that in the process of trying to gain legitimacy and funding the movement kind of "sold out" from its original grassroots framework. In gaining government funding for social programs the movement has appropriated some the "language and goals of the state" therefore compromising some important factors. By creating campaign slogans like "domestic violence can happen to anyone" the movement reinforces the idea that domestic violence only matters when it starts happening to white middle and upper class women. Also, by portraying battered women as "innocent victims" it creates this ideal of the "good victim" that reinforces gender norms and creates an environment of having to pass and in turn marginalizes individuals on the bases of race, class, gender, and sexuality among other things. All in All, what the author aimed to point out is that the success of the Battered Women's Movement is due mostly to the fact that it no longer challenges "important principles of straight bourgeois society" but instead continues to perpetuate classist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic norms in dominate culture. I think this essay highlights the way the heteronormative structure can invade and continue to exact punishment on those outside of its form, even within one of the very programs that was initially intent on challenging those very norms. As well, in other essays by Dean Spade I've highlighted how the intersection of race, class and gender variant identities in folks leaves them incredibly vulnerable to domestic violence but they will more than likely be turned away from a shelter for the exact same reasons. I like this essay because it is a good example of how queer studies and feminist studies can lend themselves to each other to create a more inclusive understanding of an issue.
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I come back to this chapter of Undoing Gender by Butler because in my first read of it I highlighted several points that related to my term and in revisiting it find that it fits quite nicely with how I have been looking at my term this semester. I will not under any circumstances claim that I completely understand Butler. For me, it may be worlds away before I do, but in this chapter I think most of what she is doing is exploring the ways societal norms of heteronormativity (white, male, upper-class) are taken for granted when thinking about what constitutes a human and in turn how we establish human rights.
She states: "local conceptions of what is human or, indeed, of what the basic conditions and need of human life are, must be subjected to reinterpretation, since there are historical and cultural circumstances in which the human is defined differently." (p37)
And in that notion of taking this very basic concept for granted, those that are (as of right now) not considered fully human in terms of rights, autonomy and so on are at risk for extreme instances of violence. This is where my term comes in, where I have been looking at it as the consequences and punishments to bodies and individuals because of the overarching heteronormative structure, violence is the instrument through which it is carried out. And Butler argues that no one, except the privileged white heterosexual male, is out of the discussion of what qualifies as human. She points out the consequences of this; the ways in which violence is acted upon gender non-conforming subjects and how they are not protected by the state and often times the state is the one inflicting violence.
She says: "The violence emerges from a profound desire to keep the order of binary gender natural or necessary, to make of it a structure, either natural or cultural, or both, that no human can oppose, and still remain human." (p35)
This in itself, the norms established through it, is what prevents us from having complete sexual autonomy, and I would argue the very real threats of bodily harm and our ability to thrive are the ways of policing that. My feeling on this are pretty dark, I can see this pretty clearly but am trapped and implicated within it as well. Butler calls for a real discussion on what constitutes humanness with the International Human Rights commission so that we can evaluate some of these issues instead of taking the category for granted. I would say that sounds nice, but still years away from any conclusion. In the meantime, people are facing real violence and discrimination every day.
Although I don't think that I could completely unpack this essay, I want to at least try to say a little bit about it in relation to my term. "Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots" by Jasbir Puar and Amit Rai seeks to analyze how the U.S. has, through the use of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism, produced more obedient patriots in this country by invoking age-old notions of "heteronormativity, white supremacy, and nationalism" into the way their combating "terrorism" to create a new formation of "monster, terrorist, fag" for citizens to Other and align in opposition to. They discuss the way that the U.S. media and government has both constructed and isolated the "monster" or racialized other through sexual deviancy. This has been entirely common with the way black men have been made into monsters in the past by proliferating the image of them a sexually deviant and the "white" patriot must save the virtue of women. Now this has been reformulated to focus on the "terrorist" as monster and how they sexually deviate them through sodomy, again taking to task the "saving" of women. They work to show how this has reinforced heteronormativity and fear even within leftist or resistance groups. As far as consequence/punishment goes I found it interesting how the authors point out the use of sodomy by the U.S. government as a form of punishment on Bin Laden and how they seek to emasculate him and "turn him into a fag." They explore how this is internalized by the American population that in order to be a good patriot you must exhibit heightened masculinity and/or other normative behaviors that align as such. What I found incredibly interesting about this is just simply how the authors totally broke down the process by which the U.S. media and government have worked again to create another racialized Other through heteronormal structures thus complicating some work already being done here to subvert said structure. This idea of punishment through sodomy (which is then associated with emasculation) is rampant in this country and although it has a long history in general this essay highlights maybe why it might be so drastic in recent years and how intertwined it is with hate and fear and the "war on terror."
With this annotated bibliography I wanted to focus primarily on sources that dealt with the gender binary and children through the lens of punishment and consequences. I came across this first source because my sister had an issue of Elle magazine and said I really needed to read this article, it sparked my interest as far as the pressures put on children to comply to strict gender roles and how adults in the midst of child rearing get very caught up in it as well, so I shaped the rest of by bibliography around it. Most, if not all, children do not fit into these normative standards of gender but they are socially constructed into them over time and I think it could be hypothesized that it is the root for a lot of problems in our society, hence punishment and consequences.
Girl Crazy: Women who suffer from Gender Disappointment
Shalit Barrett, Ruth. "Girl Crazy." Elle Magazine 291 (2009): 242-46.
I couldn't find an actual direct link to this article but I have linked to another article by Barbara Kay at the National Post that responds to the article and outlines a lot of it, this article is problematic as well but whatever...it gives you an idea. So this article called "Girl Crazy" is a super disturbing recent segment in the Psychology section of Elle Magazine that is supposed to highlight a new made up condition called Gender Disappointment. The article is about women who have had only male children and are basically obsessed with trying to conceive a female child, hence Gender Disappointment. They try a variety of homeopathic and scientific methods (and some stuff that just sounds like a home science project) to try to achieve their ultimate goal of having a "little princess." Throughout the article the author proceeds to "discover" an underground nest of women who have met online to swap stories and techniques and to commiserate about their failed attempts at getting a girl (they talk about their sons as "failed sways"). As the writer interviews these women she finds stories of incredible disappointment and debilitating depression. The women go so far as to discuss aborting their male fetuses and giving their existing male children up for adoption because they can't love them the way they deserve to be loved. Then it goes on more about whether this is a real condition or not and then even further into the latest technology to specifically implant girl embryos and blah blah blah. Never...at any time...does the writer indicate how god dam off kilter this all is.
So I'm going to try to keep my temper cool with analyzing this, but it's a doozy and I knowingly cannot look at this from all the angles possible...you could write a dissertation on this one I think. It's a must read. I think articles like this are useful for analyzing the way the pink/blue culture has infiltrated our society and the consequences of focusing so heavily the binary gender framework, creating incredibly rigid stereotypes of what it means to be a "little boy" or a "little girl." These ideals of pretty in pink girls and rough'n'tumble boys are unrealistic (kids aren't that simple); they put an unreasonable amount of pressure on children and can have major consequences for families and individuals. At the end of the article one of the women interviewed that was able to conceive twin girls through scientific sorting and was STILL not happy:
"'In the end, my expectations of what it would be like to mother a daughter were not fully realized." Eliza and Jamisyn don't like to play with dolls, don't enjoy ballet. "Neither is really frilly," Lewis laments." (pg.322)
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. New York: Picador, 2002.
Middlesex is a fictional novel by Jeffery Eugenides that chronicles three generations of a Greek-American family to tell the story of Cal (Calliope) Stephanides (our narrator) who is an intersex individual. The story spans all the way from Cal's paternal grandparents fleeing their Greek village in the 1920's to Detroit, Michigan where their family grows over the course of fifty or sixty years. It is a coming of age story for the main character as they struggle to find themselves amidst immense family and societal pressures. I chose this book to add to my bibliography because I think it works in a couple of different ways. As Cal was raised female, even before his body began to change his mother was frenzied first about having a girl, then later about correct clothing, behavior, activities, and looks for a girl, none of which Cal necessarily wanted, embodied or even liked. When it came to the moment where Cal was faced with receiving sex assignment procedures and medical treatment he simply just ran away from his family at fourteen years old. A couple of things arise in terms of Punishment/Consequences: One being the frenzy surrounding "girl lust" on the part of the mother and the enculturation of "appropriate" behaviors according to gender, this can cause stress, tension, and anxiety amongst other things, its incredible pressure to comply to a strict binary. Also, the whole controversy surrounding "sex assignment" surgeries and medical treatments which are determined by some doctor whose goal is to categorize individuals as either male or female (in the book Cal lies a bit, out of fear, leading to a "mis-diagnoses," proving in just one of the many ways the problem with this), in the real world outside this book and as I have outlined in other direct engagements there is a lot of politics surrounding this very issue. And lastly, the issue of Cal running from his family completely removed from the only life he knows, Cal goes on to see the world and become successful but as we know from activists like Dean Spade, this is not usually the case for young runaway intersex individuals, they are often exposed to a barrage of violence. I don't know how this book was received by the intersex community, especially it's inciting of the "incest taboo," but I do think it can be helpful in some ways, even in just asking questions.
Gender Lessons for Adults by Barrie Thorne Pgs.254-57
Lorber, Judith, ed. Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: Roxbury, 2005.
This is an excerpt essay from feminist theory book that was highlighted in a chapter called Social Construction Feminism. In keeping with my "theme" for this bibliography which centers around children this essay focuses on the some of the practices in schools that enhance a gender binary with children and encourages unhealthy competition, stereotypes and behavioral issues. The author, Barrie Thorne, is a professor of Sociology and Women's Studies that has spent time doing research regarding gender in a couple of schools and has highlighted several techniques that are regularly used in school settings that can be troublesome. Some examples are: Lining up children by "boys" and "girls," seating your classroom by the same standard or letting them seat themselves can cause a split as well (mostly because binaries have already been made habit), creating teams or classroom competitions by "boys" and "girls," blue nametags for boys and pink name tags for girls, stereotyped graphics displayed in classrooms, verbally separating them by scolding them in groups "you girls get busy!" So these types of practices used to maintain order in school settings often if not always perpetuate extreme polarization and the notion that they are opposites. It focuses on differences rather than similarities which encourages stereotyping and objectification of each other that often leads to teasing and fighting. The author highlights a few alternatives to these practices, like lining kids up according likes/dislikes or hot lunch/cold lunch, using gender neutral colors, nametags or classroom graphics, and assembling groups and teams according to ability. So in terms of consequences of this, I work in a public school and obviously was a kid myself once so I see how it creates environments prime for teasing, bullying and sexual harassment among other things, which is bad enough in itself but also causes anxiety, stress and low self-esteem (among other things) in children and into adolescence. Just a little personal story to highlight this, I actually spent my last couple of years of high school at a private boarding school which housed girls in "girls dorms" and boys in "boys dorms." Basically, the girls dorm was the only dorm with a security system on it to keep us in or keep people out (not sure which) but the boys dorm was not secured and they were allowed to roam free and sneak out etc. As well, the girl's dorm parent schooled us in proper hygiene and cleaning habits while the boy's dorm parent did not (his form of education came by way of telling the guys to "wrap it up" and "stay away from the sluts"). Needless to say, this created a lot of tensions and inequalities, ones that the headmaster oddly never felt the need to address.
So this week we started reading in Nobody Passes edited by Mattilda. The concept behind this project for Mattilda was to really expose, undermine and/or dissect the idea of passing in whatever capacity that took place in. Within this text the first essay I read was this one (Undermining Gender Regulation) by Dean Spade who I discovered this semester as much of his work, for me, is tangible not to mention relevant to the term I have been tracking, punishment. Spade works quite specifically in trans-politics on the many different levels that is required of him (i.e. advocate, policy making, legal-aid, consciousness raising). In reference to my term his essays speak of the violence committed against gender transgressive people and who are placed in vulnerable positions because of the government's transphobic policies, only to be exposed to more potential violence in the system. In this essay specifically Spades writes about his own experiences and challenges surrounding passing that arise simply as someone who is a representative within the transgender community. He transitions this into a discussion about the government's regulations of gender and authenticity of gender. The rest of the essay reads kind of like a "what to know" cautionary tail to dealing with state policies that attempt to coerce people into assimilation. As someone who is a lawyer fighting against these policies Spade highlights that the overwhelming commonality between the cases he battles is that the state feels it is there job to determine peoples gender identity using binary gender as the model. Here are just a couple of highlights:
* Shelters often use what's called a "bigot's veto" when denying a trans women a space on the basis that it would make the other women uncomfortable.
* Prisons, foster cares, and shelters all place people based on legal documents, meaning trans women in men's facilities, trans men in women's facilities and gender nonconforming individuals in whatever facility their birth certificate indicates.
* Healthcare is focused on gender confirming. It's highly regulated and often not included in plans even though the same prescription and procedures are included for other conditions. (Spade says this is against federal law)
* Tans youth (under 18) has little to know access to hormones or "gender confirming" care based on the systems notion that they cannot make those decisions for themselves.
This is just a couple of the ways the government regulates gender and spade says that almost always these laws and policies are "made by people who know nothing about trans healthcare, and you can see that in the inconsistencies" (pg. 69). He confirms this by pointing out how in some state policies gender confirming is based on what body parts you take away and others are focused on what body parts you add.
Here is a great quote at the end of the essay that articulates what it was about and how it applies to my term better than I could:
"They punish you for not having medical authorization to be yourself, but then refuse to see that medical authorization as legitimate when you need help paying for the care. Yes, being trans is real enough to get you falsely arrested and beaten, raped, or killed in prison, but not real enough to get you access to a domestic violence shelter, a drug treatment program that provides an alternative to incarceration, or a homeless shelter that recognizes your gender." (pg.70)
So one of the reasons I really like Dean Spade (and now probably Mattilda too) is because his work is like theory vs. practice. As someone who is admittedly new to theory, especially queer theory, I struggle with seeing the practical application to a lot of the points of analysis we study. So in my eyes, Dean understands theory thoroughly and then shows me how it is affecting real people in the most oppressive ways, and how understanding it can help create individual and collaborative points of rejection and activism. Aside from the fact that Spade has really focused in on who is most affected and who will suffer the most severe consequences of the government's gender regulation and sex segregation, he is really helping individuals and groups of people navigate through the rhetoric. I also feel personally invested in what he is trying to accomplish within a really messed up system as I myself grew up on welfare, was considerably poor growing up, (although I know it gets much worse) there were times we didn't know where we would live, where the next meal was coming from and so on. And when you are in that position you are incredibly vulnerable to being put in the system, my sister did spend time in juvenile centers and foster care homes and I came incredibly close as well. So it dictated how I conducted myself, that fear debilitates you into coercion. But if you can't or won't do that then the racist, elitist and transphobic culture/government we live in punishes you even more severely. So any one who wants to change that is good in my book.
Hopefully through my direct engagement of Dean Spade's essay "Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy" I will be able to better describe what it was about then I did in class. Dean spade is the founder of the non-profit collective Sylvia Rivera Law Project which provides free legal services to people within the transgender and intersex community that are confronting issues of poverty, racism and/or discrimination. So a great deal of his writing focuses on, especially in this piece, what kind of legal help is needed, why it's needed, why this type of work is necessary. In this essay it is explained how all of our governments social service programs, welfare systems, public school systems, correctional facilities, drug treatment centers, homeless shelters, public facilities...everything is rigidly mandated by the gender binary. This in combination with the fact that all of these things listed only recognize legal gender classification meaning they only acknowledge birth certificates and/or legal documents of gender identity in determining where in the system you belong, they do not acknowledge self-determination of gender identity. So with this essay Dean asks the question, "who is at the greatest risk for extreme consequences within this system?"
This is where he really critiques how the GLBT movement has missed the mark. Dean feels that it is transgender and intersex individuals whose identities intersect with race and class (in this case poor/low income) that are the most susceptible to the types of violence doled out by these institutions. And since there is much evidence to support that within the transgender community there are disproportionately high numbers of people whose identities would intersect this way it begs to ask the question...who says welfare reform and immigration reform aren't queer issues when it greatly effects those individuals lives? However, the GLB movements of the last how every many years have continued to ignore the T in GLBT by focusing mostly on marriage rights and assimilation to norms which Spade considers to only to be issues for people who already have a warm bed to sleep in at night, a job to by basic necessities or haven't been placed in the system simply for using a public restroom because they don't have their own (basically middle to upper-class among other things). So Spade chooses to focus on ways feminist, anti-capitalist and antiracist analysis can lend a hand to GLBT discourse and vice versa in an effort to better understand how the these systems strategically place people in the system and how their treated once they're there, and most importantly how our activism can be shaped around it.
To be honest, there was much more than this in the essay but I hope I cracked into it a little more clearly. I know for me personally one of the reasons I like Spade so much is because he's truly concerned with improving the quality of people's lives, fighting injustice and acting as a resource for people (in the trenches so to speak). What I think is really interesting and productive about this work though is that Dean Spade is really thinking outside the box. He explains to his audience that he, as the child of a single mother, spent his childhood on welfare and is all too familiar with the ways in which you have to comply with gender norms in order to receive assistance (hence: Compliance is Gendered) and the ways you are punished if you cannot. As well, having a good understanding of how capitalism, racism and the gender binary all work in overlapping ways to exclude, mark and create hierarchies is allowing him to see the issues surrounding the transgender community in a very helpful way. Not to be too pessimistic, but what I'm not sure about is whether or not it falls on deaf ears. Spades call is to work together on issues that apply to a variety different perspectives, the question is will they listen?
In relation to my term, Punishment, I have this overwhelming idea of how the hetero-normative matrix that we've discussed numerous times is just controlling and dictating everything around it. Just like the donut diagram I handed out in class, the matrix is in the center and everything orbits around it. If you can comply or pass than you may access some or all of the benefits, but if you cannot you are at risk for a barrage of punishments. And no matter how minimal or severe those punishments are, either the reality or the fear of them nonetheless shapes who we become, how we interpret our world, and how we conduct ourselves within society, hence social construction.
"Bollywood Challenge." America's Best Dance Crew. Per. Vogue Evolution. MTV. Season 4, Episode 4. 30 Aug. 2009.
This season on Americas Best Dance Crew on MTV there is a crew from the underground New York "vogue" house/ballroom scene and one of their members of this group is a transgender female, Leiomy Maldonado. In this particular episode they took time to reflect on some backstage "drama" between the group members. Leiomy was feeling what seemed to be homesick and it was affecting the rest of the group. After their dance performance the judges had an opportunity to comment and when judge Lil' Mama got her opportunity this is what she chose to say, "Your behavior...come on...its unacceptable...you need to remember your truth...you were born a man, you are becoming a woman...don't be a bird, like, 'oh my god I'm not doing this'...if you're gonna become a woman, act like a lady...you're doing this for America...even though you're the face of transgender, you're the face for America right now." The minute this came out of Lil' Mama's mouth Leiomy rolled her eyes and then proceeded to look pretty hurt and defeated throughout the rest of the judging. In connecting this to my term it speaks again to this concept of public spectacle like in Paris Is Burning, or with Caster Semenya or Sara Baartman. The fact that Lil'Mama felt it was OK to comment on Leiomy's gender performativity and say she was somehow doing it wrong and commenting on remembering your truth indicating"un-realness." She was basically saying "you're an example for others so you better do it "right!" and she was doing it in the most public way possible.
Thompson, Mark. "Anti-gay Rights Flyer Circulates K'zoo." Wood TV8 20 Oct. 2009. 21 Oct. 2009
In Kalamazoo, Michigan citizens are trying to pass an ordinance that prohibits "discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people for hiring, housing and other accommodations." However, the group that opposes the ordinance, the Kalamazoo Citizens Voting NO to Special Rights Discrimination, has created a flyer that is being distributed depicting several "cross-dressing and transgendered individuals" and addresses the part of the ordinance that deals with public accommodations. The flyer is an attempt to drum up irrational fears of "men" using women's restroom and violating their privacy among other things. It's a tactic to deter people from the real issues. However, the executive director of the Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center comments on this fact and further stresses that a man choosing to dress up like a woman to enter a women's restroom with the intent to rape someone, "ordinance or no ordinance, you're not going to stop some sicko (from) doing that. That's not a trans-issue. That's a criminal issue." This article and issue, and aspect of my term, that speaks to the way individuals are un-fairly and ridiculously criminalized as some kind of sexual degenerate that prey on "the innocence of femininity."
Spade, Dean. "Fighting to Win." That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for resisting assimilation. Ed. Matilda and Sycamore. Brooklyn: Soft Show Press, 2004
This essay by Dean Spade highlights some of the issues for low-income queer and trans folks within the GLBT movements and how these issues are being put on the back burner by the movement. In recent years New York state has adopted the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA) which excludes gender identity discrimination protection and instead focuses only on sexual orientation. Spade finds this a horrible injustice considering it was the "low-income people, people of color, trans people...and other sex/gender outsiders" that were key in sparking the Stonewall Rebellion in the late sixties which is arguably credited as setting the platform for the GLBT Rights movement. Now we have this seperation between the interests of the "wealthy gay and lesbian people" and the "low income, trans people and queers of color." Spade asks, "What happened to the alliance?" He further reinforces how necessary it is to have a "trans activism and trans analysis" that addresses the most urgent issues facing this community of people. He says, "I'm dead set on seeking an analysis and praxis for trans activism that starts with those facing the most severe consequences of the gender binary: the people who are struggling against white supremacy, xenophobia, ageism, and the criminalization of poverty." (Spade, 32) Spade goes on to describe many of the ways the gender binary of this culture seeks to discriminate against trans people in "education, employment, health care, and public benefits." He also highlights the ways gender binaries are enforced in "gender-segregated facilities and institutions" by way of "humiliation, assault, and rape." (spade, 34) This source ties nicely in with my term as Spade speaks directly about the consequences inflicted on a community of people based on their sex/gender identity. It also points out how their is little being done by the umbrella of GLBT rights to stop these injustices. In another source regarding the use of public restrooms in Kalamazoo this piece compliments it by fleshing out some more details regarding that issue.
In Bell Hooks "Black Looks: Race and Representation" she analyzes the inherit idealization of the "white woman" in the documentary Paris is Burning. However, when considering this piece through the lens of her description of the treatment of this subculture as spectacle and not part of any larger community to be applicable to my term.
Hooks states: "Moments of pain and sadness were quickly covered up by dramatic scenes from drag balls...much of the individual testimony makes it appear that the characters are estranged from any community beyond themselves. Families, friends, etc., are not shown, which adds to the representation of these black gay men as cut off, living on the edge." (Hooks, 154)
The lack of emphasis on these individual's personal lives and stories further marginalizes them and lacks in providing the viewer with a whole person behind these characters. It portrays them as not fully developed people; the balls are what define them.
Hooks goes on to state how this heightened portrayal of "black men in this gay subculture are portrayed as cut off from a "real" world...when we are told that the fair skinned Venus has been murdered, and yet there is no mourning of him/her in the film, no intense focus on the sadness of this murder. Having served the purpose of "spectacle" the film abandons him/her...her dying is upstaged by spectacle." (Hooks, 155)
I have to say that Venus was one of my favorite people in this documentary and I too felt disappointed when there was no further depiction of what happened to her. I wanted know why she was murdered and how it affected her friends and family, did they find who killed her? But the subject was dropped as though the director was saying that her murder was a consequence of her "lifestyle choice" and she wasn't worth mourning. Like Hooks says, she served her purpose for the film and then was dropped further reinforcing the portrayal of this life as lived on the "outskirts" of society where it's dangerous with both monetary and life-threatening consequences.
In Butler 's 1999 preface of Gender Trouble she claims that part of her analysis is seeing how certain sexual practice calls into question the "dominant heterosexual framework" which in turn can cause one "to lose something of one's sense of place in gender," and in doing so can cause "terror and anxiety. " Butler states, "I sought to understand some of the terror and anxiety that some people suffer in "becoming gay," the fear of losing one's place in gender or of not knowing who one will be if one sleeps with someone of the ostensibly "same" gender." (Butler, xi) In trying to look at my term from as many different angles as possible I see this part of Butler's analysis as speaking to the consequences of the hetero-normative matrix of sex/gender/sexuality that we've discussed in class. Although I feel there are many consequences of this matrix I think this part speaks directly to a psychological one that calls one's vision of oneself into question and how it is so restrictive and excluding that it can cause some individuals to "fear losing one's place in gender or of not knowing who one will be."


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Uptown Bistro, Inc. filed as a Domestic for Profit Corporation in the State of Florida on Thursday, March 19, 1998. This corporation is no longer active according to documents filed with Florida Department of State.
Rene's past corporate interests include the President of Uptown Bistro, Inc. .
Key roles for Rene Arnet
Uptown Bistro, Inc.
President, Secretary, Director