Today's topic was dis/ability and identity. Here is a selection of videos shown.

Bill Shannon - work it out
(his blog is http://whatiswhat.com/)

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( 2 more by Mad Hatters of Bath and Greg Walloch )

( intro to the piece )

These 2 quotes are about sociologist/ethnographer Pierre Bordieu, one of my academic crushes.  The first one is about class and the second on society and hyerarchy. The man is challenging me to rethink of the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, post-modernism and post-structuralism.

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( Snipet from a disabled manifesto )

I'm linking this here for personal/academic use later but I thought others might be interested in it. It's an article on the federal government under funding 1st Nations schools across the country, with a focus on a case in New Brunswick where a school had mould problems, was shut down and the kids continued to be taught in temporary quarters that ( Read more... )

( Before I go into this week's quote selection )

( Why I'm doing this )

( Unrelated to the rest of the entry, I called Brassard's office )

( part 1 of a poem )

I'm tempted to say that I want to marry the man who wrote the majority of the texts in my Tuesday course reader.
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