White (?) Culture
One of the most striking moments to me in the readings for Friday was Eula Biss’ statement: “Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture.” Although I had never thought about it in those terms before, I realized how true it was; one of the unexpected consequences of considering whiteness the norm is that it immediately lacks any sort of community (apart from, as Biss points out, the shared social privileges that we… Read More
Just Being Human
Annie and I talked about the assumption that being human is immediately equated to heterosexual white men, discussed in Dyer’s article “The Matter of Whiteness.” We did a google search of the word ‘person’ and took a screen shot of the first 19 results that popped up- not surprisingly, only 3 results were people of color. This included President Obama, the most powerful man in the free world; Kim Jong-un, who is… Read More
Tip: Stay Focused
Hey all, Below is a link to “Stay Focusd,” a downloadable extension of Google Chrome that you can use to restrict your time on distracting sites and focus on your work. You can choose which websites you would like to block for whatever time interval you prefer. If you try to get onto the site you blocked, “Stay Focusd” penalizes you by adding even more time to the time interval you set. It looks… Read More
Tip: Annotating Web Pages
The other day I stumbled upon Diigo, a multi-platform annotator. It allows you to bookmark and annotate webpages and PDFs on your computer, tablet or cell phone. To get started using Diigo on your computer visit Diigo to set up a free account: After you verify your email, you will be prompted to install the Diigo extension if you are using Chrome or add Diigolet to your favorites bar depending on your browser. After… Read More
Tip: Separating Paragraphs
When you’re constructing a blog post, for one reason or another, you sometimes type/edit a perfectly formatted post only to discover that the published version has no paragraph breaks. I couldn’t begin to tell you why, but I’ve found a simple – if a touch inelegant – solution. When in the “Edit Post” (“New Post”) screen like this: …you have two tabs in the creation section: “Visual” (where you see what the… Read More