A few thoughts
1) As the Red Queen said, "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" When I got to sit in on a group of high school seniors in Rincon H.S. talking about body image, I was in total awe. They were talking about Bourdieu, habitus, and decolonizing language and body. They were doing surveys, taking field notes, and becoming involved in school policy-making. It was awesome. And there wasn't a blonde head in the room.
2) I'm getting really excited about Bakhtin. Especially the ideas that Kit Woolard develops about moving bilingualism to the center rather than relegating it to the margins. When I think about my own research, and why I want to be working with immigrant Latinas, this is a big part of why (metaphorically, since I'm interested more in expectations and norms and embodiment than language, and what I'm interested in re: language has more to do with stance than codeswitching).
3) I love this. I definitely want to be an anthropologist. I just wish that I could take the pace down a notch.
4) We may be buying a house much sooner than I expected.
5) Brain, Child is an awesome magazine, and makes me remember why - even with all it's massive problems - 2nd Wave feminism still has some good things to offer. (Which is not to say I identify as 2nd Wave, cuz there's just too much wrong there, but there's some lessons I think get lost in later iterations. I'm especially fond of the importance of over-representing in your personal life - and your teaching of children - what is under-represented outside.) I was especially a fan of the article on cursing like a sailor.
6) Ack! I have class in an hour and SO MUCH LEFT TO READ! LJ, you time-succubus.
2) I'm getting really excited about Bakhtin. Especially the ideas that Kit Woolard develops about moving bilingualism to the center rather than relegating it to the margins. When I think about my own research, and why I want to be working with immigrant Latinas, this is a big part of why (metaphorically, since I'm interested more in expectations and norms and embodiment than language, and what I'm interested in re: language has more to do with stance than codeswitching).
3) I love this. I definitely want to be an anthropologist. I just wish that I could take the pace down a notch.
4) We may be buying a house much sooner than I expected.
5) Brain, Child is an awesome magazine, and makes me remember why - even with all it's massive problems - 2nd Wave feminism still has some good things to offer. (Which is not to say I identify as 2nd Wave, cuz there's just too much wrong there, but there's some lessons I think get lost in later iterations. I'm especially fond of the importance of over-representing in your personal life - and your teaching of children - what is under-represented outside.) I was especially a fan of the article on cursing like a sailor.
6) Ack! I have class in an hour and SO MUCH LEFT TO READ! LJ, you time-succubus.