Category: Writing
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Best Practices in Experiential Learning – now available in Arabic!
My report on Best Practices in Experiential Learning has been translated into Arabic by Mohamed Abu Maliq. Download Best Practices in Experiential Learning in English [pdf] Download الممارسات المثلى في التعلم التجريبي (Best Practices in Experiential Learning in Arabic) [pdf]
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Movie Reviews: Inside Out and Hot Docs Film Festivals
I wrote the following reviews for Shameless Magazine. They originally appeared here: Hot Docs reviews, Inside Out reviews THE LEGACY OF FRIDA KAHLO DIRECTOR: TADASUKE KOTANI 2015, JAPAN, 89 MINUTES This hypnotic film captures the convergence of two unique women, Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist famous for her searing and allegorical self-portraits, and Japanese photographer Ishiuchi…
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It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War
IT’S WHAT I DO: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE OF LOVE AND WAR Lynsey Addario [Penguin Press] Throughout her memoir, It’s What I Do, photojournalist Lynsey Addario reiterates the reason why she has risked her life – time and again – to capture images in the world’s most dangerous places. Her goal has been to bring awareness…
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Tool reviews for DiRT
As part of my duties as an editorial board member of DiRT, I agreed to start writing some reviews for digital research tools. The first one, for TimeMapper, has now been posted. As I experiment with more tools for use with LGLC data, I hope to write more. Read my review for TimeMapper on DiRT.
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New book chapter, due out in May 2015!
“Representing Canadian Queer Authorship: Making the Internet a Women’s Place,” an essay Constance Crompton and I wrote about the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project, will be published in May in Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere: Place and Space from the University of Alberta Press.
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How Poetry Saved My Life
HOW POETRY SAVED MY LIFE: A HUSTLER’S MEMOIR Amber Dawn [Arsenal Pulp Press] Midway through How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn’s memoir of her life as a sex worker, she recalls a client telling her “Now I feel human again.” A few pages later she asks “What would I pay to feel human again?” This…
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Canadian History through the Stories of Activists
GENDER AND SEXUALITY: CANADIAN HISTORY THROUGH THE STORIES OF ACTIVISTS & RESISTING THE STATE: CANADIAN HISTORY THROUGH THE STORIES OF ACTIVISTS Scott Neigh [Fernwood Publishing], http://talkingradical.ca/ History is often described as being written by the victors; a single story in which voices of struggle and resistance are often lost. Scott Neigh’s pair of books, Resisting…
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Venus With Biceps
VENUS WITH BICEPS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF MUSCULAR WOMEN David L. Chapman and Patricia Vertinsky Arsenal Pulp Press For David L. Chapman, the bodybuilding women of 1950’s-era Muscle Beach inspired a fascination with muscular women that has lasted for decades. This passion led him to amass a collection of rare postcards, photographs, and broadsides depicting…
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Counter Culture Classics: Bikini Kill
This summer I found myself standing in the narrow aisles of the stacks of New York University’s Fales Library, reaching inside a shallow cardboard box to touch the thin fabric of a musty dress. “That,” exclaimed the excited librarian of the Riot Grrrl Collection, “is the dress from the cover of Bikini Kill’s Pussy Whipped.”…
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Unpersons
UNPERSONS The Pack a.d. [Mint Records] Unpersons is an unrepentant breakup album, with all of The Pack a.d.’s quieter, gentler tendencies drained away and distilled into tight, angry rock. Drummer Maya Miller bangs out backing rhythms as vocalist Becky Black howls out the pain of a broken heart. But even in their sadness, The Pack…