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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Category Archives: Anger
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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