Can you still do research if you're not in school?
Happy Spring. You can tell it's Spring by the snow.
My two youngest were up at 11:48pm to say the Easter Bunny had been there and should they wake up their older sister before looking for the eggs. I told them it was midnight and they needed to go back to sleep. They were sleeping on the living room floor. They are very cute, I guess. They let me sleep until almost 8am and then they had the traditional Easter breakfast of peeps and jellybeans.
I will be starting a new tradition this year. It's the Easter Film Fest. It involves and orgy of movie and TV viewing. I have some good, child-appropriate movies, some old propaganda Bugs Bunny episodes and some Torchwoods to watch. The kids can come and go as they please.
So I'm trying to find out some information and I'm not sure where to start. I don't have access to the university library anymore. I do have some access through the public library, but I can't seem to get to JSTORE or EBSCO.
I want to find out what the trends are in community centers like the one at which I work. How are they faring nation-wide? How are they doing specifically in towns with similar demographics - median income, population - as mine? It's all tied into how people identify now and changes in society. I notice many people in their 20s and younger eschew any labels and don't even see the point of them. Which I think is great - I'm just wondering how this affects identity politics and institutions such as GLBT organizations that center around a specific identity. Is this model important anymore? Necessary? Vital? Blocking the path of other ways of organizing/creating social capital that might be important?
Someone mentioned "Bowling Alone." I had read it and critiqued it without realizing the applicability to my own questions. If I felt that the forms of social capital and civic engagement Putnam cites reflect his heterosexism/classicism, and that his perception of a lack of civic engagement reflects his lack of ability to see the new, evolving forms of engagement that exist, etc, then that must apply to ALL communities, including the Queer community. I think the GLBTQ community center, especially one like ours that offers mostly referrals to social services - not political advocacy, not counseling - is becoming irrelevant.
I know there is a Third Wave of feminist thought. I could use some good recommendations for that. I have Colonize This! and one other that I can't remember. Is there any kind of second or third wave queer studies writers than someone can recommend? This is not really my background at all. My studies have been in the political science/nationalism field. I know there is a lot of overlap.
Recommendations for books, authors, journal articles, websites, etc. would be much appreciated!
My two youngest were up at 11:48pm to say the Easter Bunny had been there and should they wake up their older sister before looking for the eggs. I told them it was midnight and they needed to go back to sleep. They were sleeping on the living room floor. They are very cute, I guess. They let me sleep until almost 8am and then they had the traditional Easter breakfast of peeps and jellybeans.
I will be starting a new tradition this year. It's the Easter Film Fest. It involves and orgy of movie and TV viewing. I have some good, child-appropriate movies, some old propaganda Bugs Bunny episodes and some Torchwoods to watch. The kids can come and go as they please.
So I'm trying to find out some information and I'm not sure where to start. I don't have access to the university library anymore. I do have some access through the public library, but I can't seem to get to JSTORE or EBSCO.
I want to find out what the trends are in community centers like the one at which I work. How are they faring nation-wide? How are they doing specifically in towns with similar demographics - median income, population - as mine? It's all tied into how people identify now and changes in society. I notice many people in their 20s and younger eschew any labels and don't even see the point of them. Which I think is great - I'm just wondering how this affects identity politics and institutions such as GLBT organizations that center around a specific identity. Is this model important anymore? Necessary? Vital? Blocking the path of other ways of organizing/creating social capital that might be important?
Someone mentioned "Bowling Alone." I had read it and critiqued it without realizing the applicability to my own questions. If I felt that the forms of social capital and civic engagement Putnam cites reflect his heterosexism/classicism, and that his perception of a lack of civic engagement reflects his lack of ability to see the new, evolving forms of engagement that exist, etc, then that must apply to ALL communities, including the Queer community. I think the GLBTQ community center, especially one like ours that offers mostly referrals to social services - not political advocacy, not counseling - is becoming irrelevant.
I know there is a Third Wave of feminist thought. I could use some good recommendations for that. I have Colonize This! and one other that I can't remember. Is there any kind of second or third wave queer studies writers than someone can recommend? This is not really my background at all. My studies have been in the political science/nationalism field. I know there is a lot of overlap.
Recommendations for books, authors, journal articles, websites, etc. would be much appreciated!