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pedagogy of the non-oppressed
Since I rediscovered and posted one of my favorite bell hooks quotes the other day, I have been thinking about whether her pedagogy or any of those based on Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed are actually relevant to teaching today’s American college students. I asked this question once before, when at Marlboro College I…
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this is what I have to say about that
Early on, it was Friere’s insistence that education could be the practice of freedom that encouraged me to create strategies for what he called “conscientization” in the classroom. Translating that term to critical awareness and engagement, I entered classrooms with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an…
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Did Someone Say Vagina?
Cross posted at Ms. When I heard the news from Michigan, the first person I thought of was Eve Ensler. I’ve directed The Vagina Monologues twice and, despite unsettling doubts that the play does not actually work as V-Day events intend it to (to end violence), I loved doing it both times. In theater speak,…
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A Woman and Her Doctor
A Woman and Her Doctor a short play by Holly L. Derr Scene One A WOMAN and her DOCTOR. Doctor A: What can I help you with today? Woman: I’m here for procedure 132. Doctor A: Procedure 132. Pause. Doctor A: Procedure 132A or 132B? Pause. The DOCTOR hands her a pamphlet. Woman sighs. Scene…
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Coming to Sandra, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sandra Bernhard
Cross posted at Ms. I have never really understood Sandra Bernhard. It’s not that I haven’t tried. After admiring her fantastic turn as ballsy sexual harassment lawyer Caroline Poop on Ally McBeal, my absolutely favorite show at the time (1997) about my absolutely favorite “dead feminist,” I told a friend, “I’ve never really gotten the…
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is this feminist?
Check out this hilarious tumblr.
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A Look Inside the Mind of a Suffragist
Cross-posted at Ms. Picture it: 1917. Susan B. Anthony has been dead for 11 years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton for 15. Carrie Chapman Catt has been agitating with the National American Woman Suffrage Association since 1900. But women in America still do not have the right to vote. Fed up, a group of militant suffragists called the National…
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Style
“Style is knowing what kind of play you’re in.” – Sir John Gielgud
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Company Creation Festival 2012 – The Shows
Company Creation Festival 2012 from Matthew McCray on Vimeo.
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Helen Hunt Runs the Show in Our Town
Cross posted at Ms. The moment she enters, walking quickly, in her masculine work boots and jeans, you know that she is a woman in charge. That’s what a real stage manager is, after all, but in most productions of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-Prize winning classic, Our Town, the Stage Manager is an old white man,…
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