About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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banning wikipedia: irresponsible
David Perry has an editorial up on Science Progress in which he argues that it’s irresponsible to ban Wikipedia at a school: And this is why digital literacy is so crucial for educational institutions: we do a fundamental disservice to … Continue reading
Posted in Information Literacy, Internet culture, Literacy, New Media, Wikipedia
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banished: 60 years of making your hometown white
Chuck Tryon reminds us to watch Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings, a PBS Documentary that starts airing on February 19. The film documents the actions of white folk in various counties in the United States that expelled African Americans between 1864 … Continue reading
Posted in Race, Social Justice
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construction
i’ve felt this way walking on campus before. well, not quite this severe.
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notes from the interblags: the childish edition
I want to write extensively on these, but given time constraints, I’ll just give some links and let you think, with perhaps a bit of musing from myself: • There is a viral video going around that is supposed to … Continue reading
“lesbians leave their footprint on other people’s faces”
I just finished reading For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology by tatiana de la tierra, a fantastic collection of poems (prose poems? a manifesto [sic]? a “wishful thinking”? tatiana de la tierra admits herself that it is hard to … Continue reading
Posted in Queer issues and theory
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