Category: Blog
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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Wikipedia gives the summary, “Stone Butch Blues is a novel written by the revolutionary communist Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America.” Generally with a book like this, I try to get the background and plot before I read it, so that I’m able to absorb it all. I started doing…
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EDC: Queer Student in Oakland, CA
I have moved to Oakland, CA to focus on getting a degree in Urban Studies at SFSU as well as working on lots of exciting queer activism and housing activism. Here is my updated everyday carry. Combination Charger and Battery This is life changing. Why are all chargers not also batteries!? Short Right-Angle USB-C Cords…
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Sexual Violence at Sierra College
CJ Trowbridge WMST1 2020-03-01 Prompt: This is a two part question. Be sure to answer both parts: Write the sample text a college could use to realistically warn potential students about the risk of sexual violence they could face if they enroll. (About one paragraph) THEN write the concrete policy steps that YOU WISH the…
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Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
This book was very interesting to read. Reading this book showed me how little the POC experience is represented in the curriculum. This is part of what inspired me to pursue Race and Resistance Studies at SFSU in my later educational career.This book is an autobiographical narrative. We go with the author through her own…
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Calling gender a spectrum is almost as problematic as calling it a binary.
CJ Trowbridge 2020-02-16 Women’s Studies Gender Identity Prompt: With evidence, support the following statement: Gender is a spectrum, not a binary. Calling gender a spectrum is almost as problematic as calling it a binary. Gender is not a spectrum anymore than it is a binary. A better analogy would be a map of the world,…
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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room is not a true story, but it parallels the author’s life. It’s somewhere between a fictionalized autobiography and historical fiction. It’s a very sad story which I really related to. The story follows a young man in Paris who falls in love with another man, much to his own surprise. Everything goes horribly…
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Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. This is a very strange and interesting story. Written almost 250 years ago, it takes place in two-dimensional space which makes it challenging to even consider at first. Once you get the idea, it explores many interesting sociological concepts from class mobility to gender. The two-dimensional nature of the…
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Fall 2019: Weekly Intersectional Privilege Event
I am an affluent, white, male, cis, able person who has these privileged identities within the American white-cis-ablist-classist-patriarchy. I am also a gay, socialesque, atheist which are marginalized identities within American hetero-ancap-christian culture. I see many gay, affluent, white, cis men forgetting about the fact that they are affluent, white, cis, men. This has led…
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Short Story: Gaudi Geodesic Masion Park Enclave
short story idea: geodesic gaudi mansion park enclave arcology as a condensing symbol for ignoring negative externalities