Anger
the ethics of anger and rhetoric
I’ve become quite obsessive about thinking about anger recently. It’s quite apparent that liberal sensibility doesn’t lend itself to angry rhetoric. Watch how folks react to angry queers or angry women or angry working poor or angry people of color or angry anyone. They only listen if they identify with them — that is, agree with [...]
An Open Letter to My White LGBT Siblings
Printed today in the OSU Barometer: This letter will be angry. I won’t apologize for any vitriol or confrontation here. I don’t believe that we can have honest public discussions without being confrontational. My anger comes from hearing, with dismay, about a party last weekend themed “Cowboys and Indians.” I don’t know a lot about [...]
Ann Coulter, the Liberal Blogosphere, and the (Straight, Liberal) Male Bond
Here is my talk from The Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference last week. I’ll put the abstract here and the talk below the cut. I also added links within the text to blogs I discuss. To forefront on concern of mine about the talk, I use the term “critical-rational,” which I find problematic because it might [...]
working class and the classroom
Like Donna LeCourt, and many other academics, I grew up pretty working class. My dad helps Grandpa run the family farm — in the family for 103 years now, I believe — while also taking on three part-time jobs. Mom works 40 hours a week and is always tired, it seems, because of her hard [...]
more from Lorde
From”Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger”: “I don’t like to talk about hate. I don’t like to remember the cancellation and hatred, heavy as my wished-for death, seen in the eyes of so many white people from the time I could see. It was echoed in newspapers and movies and holy pictures and [...]
some quotes from Audre Lorde
From “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”: My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to ue it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it in silence, afraid of the weight. My fear of [...]
journaling on anger, emotions, compositions
From my journal this morning: If literature and the humanities are about exploring the human condition, then teaching, learning, and writing are about becoming more human. If we are engaged in an ongoing soft revolution (Zizek), our societal changes cannot just happen in the head, but must also happen in the heart. We must begin [...]
on anger
I wrote this a few days ago in my journal and posted it on my personal blog, but I thought I’d go ahead and post it here. I stopped watching corporate news television years ago. I become too angry watch it. Now the only time I watch is when I’m at the gym on the [...]
