tangle's blog

Oh progressive u, how I've missed thee lo this past year. My blogging had become less frequent during my graduate school days, because working full time and graduate school together left me little time for idle blogging.  Read More »

This summer at UCLA I was introduced to the idea of performing gender. That is, the ways that we daily act out our assigned – or assumed as the case may be – gender roles. Performing gender comprises many things, ordinary things that many of us take for granted and do not second guess. For women this would be things like shaving your legs, wearing make-up and jewelry. For men this would be things like consistently wearing pants and the grooming of your facial hair.  Read More »

We’ll consider this my preliminary Skeptical Feminist FAQ:

• What is feminism? Is it a philosophy, an ideology, or just another ism?  Read More »

Abortion has always been a women's issue. It has not always been a medical issue, or a legal issue, but it has always been an issue of personal liberty and reproductive freedom for women.  Read More »

To be, or not to be a feminist? I've blogged about this before, but recently I've had to yet again reconsider my position. This is no doubt because I've been consumed lately with the idea of sex work.  Read More »

As I lamented to my sociology professor yesterday, I have a bad habit of thinking in terms of overly-broad, dissertation-length concepts, which is a bit premature at this stage in my academic career. And so, in keeping with my goal of paring down my interests into more focused topics, I'm setting out to once again blog about race, specifically about whiteness and the subtle privileges enjoyed by those with a light skin tone.  Read More »

I cannot escape racism. It paints my world in stark, thick, contrasting strokes of black and white. So it goes that I devote much thought to the matter of that social construct so casually referred to as race. (In a very similar manner, I might add, that I cannot help but to constantly consider gender as it shapes my world.  Read More »

Have you given much consideration to the inevitable fact of your death?  Read More »