Indian Ocean By jogorman
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Hello all you lovely people.
The summer has gotten off to a great, albeit exhausting, start.
All quiet on the parental front, which is helping a lot.
I am taking 3 classes (1 online) this summer.
I am teaching 1 class. Trying to put the final touches on my syllabus and then I’ll begin the dreaded PDFing process.
I have been hired as a policy analyst for a statewide non-profit and it is presently the legislative session, so I’m having to spend a fair amount of time at the state Capitol. It’s surprisingly exhausting work, but it is also really fun and I’m learning a lot.
Dave is in New Orleans doing his USAO gig (it seems to be going REALLY well for him!). I’m doing OK here by myself except that I get really freaked out being here by myself at night. I’m always afraid that someone is going to break in, which is a larger stress/anxiety manifestation.
I’m working with my therapist this summer to relax more. I am full of internalized anxiety at all times and that is not a good way to live.
I am eating better and trying to sleep more. I am hoping to run on the treadmill for a bit tonight and do some yoga.
I was able to straighten up the house a lot last weekend and have been trying to keep up with it. It helps my mood considerably when the house is tidy. Dave and I are hoping to go through our closets on the weekends to get stuff organized and throw out stuff we don’t need. Extended summer cleaning. =)
We are flying to Arizona in a week and a half for the wedding of two of our good friends from Chicago. Super excited to see them. I’m also hopeful that I’ll be able to squeeze myself into this lovely summery long formal lavender and silver dress for the occasion. Fingers crossed.
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Oat and Poppy Field (detail), Giverny, oil on canvas, Claude Monet
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Just 27% of BA’s Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don’t Believe the Fed’s New Stat
Whenever you see a big, bold statistic about the fate of college grads, take it with a grain of salt.
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Just 27% of BA’s Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don’t Believe the Fed’s New Stat
Whenever you see a big, bold statistic about the fate of college grads, take it with a grain of salt.
Read more. [Image: Federal Reserve]
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If you are reading this in the United States or Canada, whose land are you on, dear reader? What are the specific names of the Native nation(s) who have historical claim to the territory on which you currently read this article? What are their histories before European invasion? What are their historical and present acts of resistance to colonial occupation? If you are like most people in the United States and Canada, you cannot answer these questions. And this disturbs me.
Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), “Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies” (via nepantlastrategies)
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There is no single jurisdiction in the U.S. where a minimum wage worker can afford the fair market rent for a home.
So I got sent to the dean today for wearing this top. My study tech teacher said that I was “exploiting” myself and that it could be a distraction to the other students. I got up out of my seat and told her that I wasn’t going to listen to her dress codes. In a way, she was being misogynist and slut shaming and I think that’s wrong. I will continue to wear what I want and nobody can tell me not to. The fact that womens bodies are sexualized and objectified so much angers me and that’s the reason why this happened. I’m going to wear what I want, how I want, when I want and that’s it.
I was there, reblog the shit out of this guys
I’m a guy. I can’t wear a shirt like this either, even though I’m not going to be wearing a bra. it’s dress code. It’s not slut shaming. You can’t show your bra like that at most jobs. why should you at school? Yes sexism is wrong and all that, but you can’t get ‘angry at the patriarchy” because you can’t show your undergarments in public. I’m not going to wear jeans with a rip in the side or the front that show off my flowery boxers, because that’s just not appropriate for school. Have some professionalism. You can wear whatever you like at home or with your friends or whatever, yes, but school prepares you for real life.
At work you can’t have this attitude of “I wear the fuck ever I want.” and expect to keep your job. School is the same way because it’s trying to teach you that lesson. That’s unrealistic; almost any job you get is going to have someone tell you what to wear or what to do because you work for them and you represent their company. If you don’t look the way they need you to look, that makes them look bad. A tattoo parlor probably isn’t going to hire someone who dresses like a nun and a top company isn’t going to hire someone who comes to work in a tank top that shows off her bra or a guy that shows off his ballsack.
You can’t blame patriarchy for this, I’m sorry. You can’t blame sexism for this. If I wore booty shorts and you could almost see my balls through my semi transparent flowery goddamn boxers, I would get in the same amount of trouble as you, and it’s within good reason.
Um. The teacher in question told this person that she was “exploiting” herself, which is quite clearly an insinuation that she looks like a prostitute. We are equating bras with ballsacks, now? Interesting. Who gets to define what is and is not “appropriate” for school has everything to do with dominant understandings of masculinity and femininity. Boys get sent home all the time for wearing skirts because they are a “distraction” just like girls get sent home all the time because of OTHER PEOPLE’S sexualization of them if their shorts are “too short,” tops are “too tight,” or bras are showing “too much.” Get real, you idiot. This has everything to do with patriarchy, misogyny, sexism, and oppressive control of women’s bodies and their ability to express those bodies. Because someone else gets a hard-on or gets wet from her bra showing really doesn’t have anything to do with her and really isn’t her fucking problem.
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