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Category Archives: WS399: LGBT Studies
using feed2js in blackboard
Alright, I hate Blackboard, but we’re using it at OSU. A month or so ago, Jon Dorbolo (of Technology Across the Curriculum) showed me how I can pull in an RSS feed into my Blackboard site using feed2js. You can … Continue reading
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notes from the interblags: just some links
I’m going to have to give up on writing on some of these things, though I’ve wanted to. Some tabs that have been left open on my browser over the last month or so: • “The White Anti-Racist is an … Continue reading
questions of history and identities
Friday night, I’m sitting on the balcony of my New Orleans hotel room reading Thomas Piontek’s Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies, sections of which we are reading in Heather and my LGBT Studies course. A man walks up to smoke … Continue reading
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new course at OSU: LGBT Studies
I haven’t written about this yet, despite being very excited for it for the last few weeks: My friend Heather, in Women Studies, and I will be co-teaching a new course at OSU, Women Studies 399: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and … Continue reading
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