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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more on post-election race and sexuality thoughts
Thanks to Feminist Philosophers (I love this blog), some links: Pam Spaulding writes here and here. Alex Blaze writes here. Blaze’s post is particularly interesting because it covers all those who overwhelming voted against same-sex marriage who are not African … Continue reading
Posted in Queer issues and theory, Race
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the need for alliance building: fighting racism and homophobia
A friend of mine is working on a zine about queer politics and has asked me to write something. Below the cut is the draft I have so far — pretty rough, but a start. Related to this, today I … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Queer issues and theory, Race, Social Justice
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notes from the interblags: post election etc.
• Inside Higher Ed: Temple College in Texas bans the Nietzschean phrase Gott ist tot from a professor’s door on the grounds that it is religious and offensive to some. (EDIT: Temple College president reversed the decision and allows the … Continue reading
post election thoughts: morning in America
cross-posted As I listened to NPR this morning, I heard Representative Lewis’s acceptance speech, where he talked about Obama’s win, rather than his own, and Jesse Jackson’s reaction as well. I teared up a little, thinking about how monumental this … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Feminism, Gender, publics, Queer issues and theory, Race, Social Justice
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notes from the interblags: racism, transphobia, marginalia
• via Dennis, BooMan on explicit racism in this election. An excerpt: Anytime they poll the American people about racism, blacks say there is more of it than whites. The raw racism on display this election season is probably more … Continue reading