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So I loves me a campus visit, but my visit to Framingham State College on Monday — though exhausting! — took the cake. Heartfelt thanks to superorganizer Virginia Rutter and her amazing crew: Lisa Eck, Bridgette Sheridan, the Gender Interest Group, English, History, Psychology, Sociology, Academic Affairs, President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, Wellness Center, and Women’s Empowerment, with special kudos to students Chelsea Hastbacka and Ashley Barry.<\/p>\n
The day started with a first-run lecture\/discussion called “Gender Shakeup at the Recession,” in which I got to play professor once again.\u00c2\u00a0 I talked a bit about my personal experience with layoff, and national trends, and then had students go through two media pieces chock full of gender stereotypes (that DABA article from the New York Times from January<\/a> and my dear co-blogger Joe the Trader’s piece at Recessionwire called “Gendernomics”<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 The students really got it,<\/em> and I learned from the things they noticed as well.\u00c2\u00a0 We talked about why the return to these traditional notions and self-presentations of gender now<\/em>, and it’s something I sense I’ll be writing about more and more…<\/p>\n Then, a Sisterhood, Interrupted<\/em> talk in a church — I got to say words like “ass” and “bitch” in a church!\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, they’re in the section of my book that I read from; not like I planned it or anything.<\/p>\n Next up, a blogging workshop.\u00c2\u00a0 And finally, a wrap-up with the faculty Gender Interest Group and the kind of discussion that made me really miss academia.\u00c2\u00a0 As a freelancer out here who straddles academic and non-academic worlds, it was grounding and re-energizing to be among engaged students and engaging faculty for a whirlwind day of thinking, discussing, and mulling.<\/p>\n The feminist group on campus — who call themselves “Women’s Empowerment” — played a big role in getting me there, and they, together with the faculty I met, are the lifeblood of feminist consciousness on this campus.\u00c2\u00a0 As always, the sight of young people coming to — and questioning — their feminism inspires me to no end.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you, FSC, for reminding me why I do what I do!\u00c2\u00a0 You keep me going, you really do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I loves me a campus visit, but my visit to Framingham State College on Monday — though exhausting! — took the cake. Heartfelt thanks to superorganizer Virginia Rutter and her amazing crew: Lisa Eck, Bridgette Sheridan, the Gender Interest Group, English, History, Psychology, Sociology, Academic Affairs, President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, Wellness Center, and Women’s Empowerment, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21282,21328,245,71,21927],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crossover","tag-events","tag-feminism","tag-intergenerational","tag-womens-history-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}