Superheroes and makeup
So today’s panel of fictional characters got me thinking more about the superheroes and superheroines of popular culture (because my knowledge of comics and superheroes is REALLY limited) and how...
View ArticleNadya Suleman on Panel 3
I just wanted to write a little bit about the person I’m representing on Monday’s panel: Nadya Suleman, nicknamed “Octo-Mom.” She currently has 14 children, all conceived via IVF treatments, and...
View ArticleWomen who undergo IVF treatments to conceive
Just an overview of my findings about IVF patients, who I’ll be representing on Monday’s panel: Overwhelmingly, the data I’ve come across has dealt exclusively with married heterosexual women. I have a...
View ArticleMy dog, Gilead, and Breast Implants (?)
My dog had to get a single stitch on his eyelid over break… (this is relevant, I promise)…And we had to get him one of those cone or lampshade looking things to put around his neck so that he couldn’t...
View ArticleThird Quarter Feedback
1. what connections have you seen among all the imaginative representations of gender and technology that we’ve looked @? I think that in The Handmaid’s Tale and Watchmen gender was portrayed as...
View ArticleRecap of small-group discussion
In our group, containing Natasha, Julia, Maddie, and Michelle, we mostly focused on the question about Turkle’s text concerning the (virtual) reality of relationships. After Julia told us her anecdote...
View ArticleHaneke’s “Funny Games” (1998)
Going along with the movie theme we seem to be following, I recently saw “Funny Games” in a screening for another class, and in our discussion of the movie, I was struck by the overlap between this...
View Article“Library of Dust”
Today in film class we discussed permanence or mortality of images, and the discussion led to a place that I think is pertinent to our discussion of death from yesterday. The professor showed us this...
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