Author: cjtrowbridge
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XXI
“Drunk one night, Sarah had told me Women are the race… No two ways about it. Male is just a mutation with more muscle and half the nerves. Fighting, fucking machines… To be a woman was a sensory experience beyond the male. Touch and texture ran deeper, an interface with environment that male flesh seemed…
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Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
Prompt: Why are we so afraid of reproductive technologies?” Who is “we?” Intro Systems of oppression exist on three levels. First, the pervasive and ubiquitous sociocultural level which encompasses all the ideas (or discourses) in our society’s collective culture. Second, the institutional level, where people enact the sociocultural discourses as policy in order to make…
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USP 514 Session 15 Notes
November 18th Session Fifteen: The Covid 19 Pandemic REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION FIFTEEN (click on Session 14 on left side to access reading) The Fullest Look Yet at Racial Inequalty of Covid 19 –https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html How Covid 19 is laying bare inequality in Europe Black New Deal Community Ready Corps and The Anti Police-Terror Project convened a wide…
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USP 515 Session 13 Notes
November 16th and 18th Session Thirteen: Addressing Environmental Injustices/Cost Benefit Analysis/Precautionary Principle ASSIGNED READING FOR SESSION THIRTEEN (click on session 13 on left to access reading) Pricing the Priceless (this is a legal article so you may have to review it several times Cost-benefit analysis is a deeply flawed method that repeatedly leads to biased and…
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USP 514 Session 14 Notes
November 16th Session Fourteen: Green New Deal REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION FOURTEEN Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition – https://report.gndforeurope.com/ Austerity is not a solution to the climate collapse. Progress is expensive. You can’t get progress with austerity. Economic inequality is another major problem facing civilization. Democracies are collapsing around the world as a result of the unaddressed economic…
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Thankful for Hot Springs
<main id=”main” class=”site-main”><article id=”post-13575″ class=”post-13575 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-preparing-for-2021″> <div class=”entry-content”> Public health officials across the country are arguing that <a href=”https://blog.cjtrowbridge.com/2020/12/26/public-health-officials-say-that-camping-is-one-of-the-safest-things-to-do-during-covid/”>camping is the safest thing to be doing during covid</a>. I built a <a href=”https://blog.cjtrowbridge.com/2020/09/24/building-a-travel-trailer/”>moving cabin</a> in order to do more camping and spend time away from other people. I wanted to spend a…
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Group Communication Theory Tension and Conflict Summary
In small group communication theory, there are several stages of tension which all groups must work through. These stages generally happen in a certain order but changes or conflicts in the group can lead to returning to earlier stages at any point. Primary tension is the initial process whereby a group overcomes the initial uncertainty…
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USP 515 Session 12 Notes
November 9th Session Twelve: Civil Rights Part One of this session will focus on how voting rights restoration schemes deny the right to vote to those who cannot afford to pay legal debt. Part Two will focus on Prison Abolition. ASSIGNED READING FOR SESSION TWELVE Part One: Voting Rights/Disenfranchisement Can’t Pay/Can’t Vote Poll taxes, or…
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USP 514 Session 13 Notes
November 9th Session Thirteen: Cost Benefit Analysis and Precautionary Principle REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION THIRTEEN (click on Session 13 on left side to access reading) Pricing the Priceless (this is a legal article so you may have to review it several times Cost-benefit analysis is a deeply flawed method that repeatedly leads to biased and misleading…