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Notes Towards Day 18: A Visit with Kate Bornstein

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 9:26pm

Thursday, November 5
Public Event @ Bryn Mawr College
Transcending Gender: An Informal Conversation
with Kate Bornstein
Time: 10 - 11:30 AM
Location: Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall

"I've never been hurt by an honest question....I want this...to be
the conversation I always wanted as I was growing up,
and never had the chance to have" (Gender Outlaw, 9, 12).

Reading Notes: Hello, Cruel World

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 3:03pm

Reading Notes on
Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide
for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

Reading Notes: My Gender Workbook

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 2:39pm

Reading Notes on My Gender Workbook:
how to become a real man, a real woman,
the real you, or something else entirely

Notes Towards Day 17: Towards New Forms (of Identity and Expression)

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 1:37pm

Music to get us in the mood:
Garth Brooks (via Owl): "We Shall Be Free"
and/or Lucinda Williams (via holsn39): "What If"
and/or The Distillers (via ebock): Seneca Falls...

Reading Notes: Gender Outlaw

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 1:28pm

Reading Notes
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

transgender style: based on collage; a more playful, less dictatorial style
of self-expression; trying on accessories for next phase of my life (3-4)

Notes Towards Day 16: Freaks and Other Outlaws

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:24am

To our new mood music (courtesy of Elephant and holsn39 and eshaw)

please sign up on board: which Bornstein book did you read=are prepared to "teach"?

The Impact of Environmental Changes on Zoonotic Diseases

Submitted by ttruong on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 6:55pm

The Impact of Environmental Changes on Zoonotic Diseases

The Classification Problem - Fungal Considerations

philosophy

THE CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM - FUNGAL CONSIDERATIONS

by Wilfred Franklin

Back to The Classification Problem - Implications for Intentionality

Taxonomists and systematists are interested in understanding evolutionary relationships between living organisms. This in turn is motivated by an interest to understand the forces and factors that influence evolution within taxa and in so doing, evolution in general.

What is the Teaching and Learning Initiative at Bryn Mawr College?

Submitted by alesnick on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 10:02am

A case study of a campus initiative to build relationships and dialogues about teaching and learning among faculty, staff and students (www.brynmawr.edu/tli).

Empowering Learners Handbook Acknowledgments

The Empowering Learners Handbook is the work of many hands. Grateful thanks to Ann Dixon and Laura Hummer for editing and updating the 2009 edition, and for their guidance and encouragement. Deep thanks as well to Nell Anderson, Jody Cohen, Alison Cook-Sather, Anne Dalke, Victor Donnay, Paul Grobstein, and Amanda Root, Bryn Mawr College colleagues who have supported the development and growth of the Empowering Learners course, the creation and revision of the handbook at various points, and students' connections with many of the settings featured in its pages. Joyful thanks to the students, at Bryn Mawr and Haverford and in many other schools and settings, whose work this is, and is about.