Posted in Eugene, Oregon, Gender, Sarah Palin, South Park, celebrities, culture, entertainment, herstory, life, opinion, politics, women, tagged abortion, daughters, feminism, Gender, gender equality, herstory, hierarchy, mothers, patriarchy, post-feminism, poverty, refugees, relationships of power, Sarah Palin, Sarah Silverman, sexual abuse, single mothers, social justice, structural violence, the state, ugly sister, uglysister, women on August 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So in the last 15 years the relationship between femininity and sexuality (never straight-forward) has become increasingly problematic. While I was busy watching cartoons and playing with action figures with my kids, the role of women and girls within the narrative of twenty-first-century American identity became publicly sexualized in a way that makes me feel [...]
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Posted in Eugene, Oregon, Gender, culture, herstory, life, opinion, social justice, women, tagged 13, astrology, feminism, Friday the 13th, Gender, herstory, hierarchy, landscape architecture, Mary Magdalene, Ophiuchus, patriarchy, post-feminism, relationships of power, sexual abuse, social justice, the state, thirteen, twelve in design, ugly sister, uglysister, women, zodiac on August 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So I was sitting in a landscape architecture design class a few years ago, when the Professor asked us to reflect on the deeper aesthetic, and perhaps collectively human, significance of the number twelve. At his invitation students began to offer up examples – twelve months in a year and twelve signs of the Zodiac [...]
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