Notes
Trapper Keeper is back but I’m holding out for the re-release of the unicorn in front of a waterfall.
How come every time Rachel Cohn & David Levithan collaborate the result is adorable? What’s up with that? 📚
Casey Fiesler asked for tips for creating equal participation in breakout rooms. One strategy to try is providing distinct roles for each individual. Cal State-San Marcos Instructional & Information Technology Services explains why & how to do this.
Younger S7E5 is delighting me with Janeane Garofalo as an art college dean and Sutton Foster as Liza Miller dancing to a recording of Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
🎙️ Listening to Keegan-Michael Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy on Audible & in ep 5 he mentions the Carol Burnett Show. Comedian guests on The Hilarious World of Depression consistently cited that show as their earliest comedic influence. It’s mine, too. ♥️
One of the many straws on the proverbial camel’s back that led me to stop watching THE CHAIR after only 8 minutes was when the dean said “We can’t add another line” for the junior scholar. 📺
About to go pick kid up from first day of preschool. (1/2 day today, full day Thurs). Achieved:
- made coffee
- made breakfast
- drank coffee
- ate breakfast
- took meds
- finished reading Data Feminism intro
- replied to email
- measured feet
- ordered motion control shoes
📚 Just finished the introduction of Data Feminism & am jotting down some thoughts. I hope to expand on these later.
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To what extent and how do the 7 principles of data feminism intersect/interact with Jennifer Armbrust’s 12 principles for prototyping a feminist business?
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Women were the first computers. Is there a relationship between this history and the default woman-coded voices of digital virtual assistants that goes beyond generic sexism?
📚 Data Feminism has the best (and perhaps only) definition of positionality I’ve ever seen: “Positionality is a term that describes how individuals come to knowledge-making processes from multiple positions, including race, gender, geography, class, ability, and more. Each of these positions is shaped by culture and context, and they intersect and interact.”
Colleagues are all “I forgot how exhausting teaching in person is!” & I’m all “I forgot how exhausting getting your kid ready to go to preschool in person is!”
Me, prepping for my kid’s very masked return to preschool:
IMAGE: Liz Lemon (from the TV show 30 Rock), a white woman with brown hair wearing glasses, says, “I’m going to become wonderful.”
Want to read: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly 📚
📺 It’s been interesting seeing other (current or former) academians’ responses to THE CHAIR. I made it 8 minutes but once the notion of just getting through the tenure process and THEN shaking things up was mentioned, I had to stop. My heart was hurting.
Setting aside my TIME 100 list plan to play in the land of YA rom-coms. Just started NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST. 📚
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Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling â Scalawag scalawagmagazine.org.Read: scalawagmagazine.org
Read this because it’s on Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Human-Information Interaction syllabus for this semester. (I like to look at updated syllabi for classes I’ve already taken to see what I might have missed recently.) Going to pull out a couple of quotes that stuck with me. I hope in time I’ll write a more robust response to this article.
The public rarely sees the many processes that happen behind the scenes at librariesâwhich cultural priorities inform decisions of what to include in a collection, or to digitize; which books to display; which films or speakers wind up on the calendarâall of these choices are determined by the priorities designated by the library leadership. And, of course, their biases play a part.
The ALA isn’t a worker’s union. It’s an association that includes everyone from paraprofessionals to directors of large systems. Several people told me that as library workers, they didn’t feel represented by the organizationâfar from it.
I clocked a solid chunk of time on my current consulting contract today and I really enjoyed the work. That’s such a good feeling.
“Being a mom is my calling, and being a writer is also my calling, so they have to both exist simultaneously.” Well said, A’Ziah King.
Today, in Sesame Street Is the Best Comedy School, Grover and Campers Learn About Trees. Excellent use of the rule of three and a beautiful button.
Who’s your favorite fictional character with an extreme love of school supplies? Mine is Amy Santiago. (I’m super behind on B99 y’all.)
We might need to have a talk about how I don’t want to eat any actual meals, just leftovers of the Fran’s Torte L’Orange that my bonus mother-in-law made me for my belated birthday celebration at her house.
I just processed all the action items from the beginning of the year email the head teacher at my kid’s preschool sent out, capturing them in my bullet journal, and I feel like I deserve a long rest. I haven’t done any of them. Just putting them on a list wore me out.
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Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? - The New York Times nytimes.com.Read: www.nytimes.com
I’ll be watching this with interest. Big organizations like iO & Second City, especially iO, have operated in the past on a model where the community was a product more than the comedy and the performers customers more than the audience. A lot of theaters operate on a similar model, with student tuition funding most of the enterprise and volunteer labor greasing the wheels. I think these components of models will have to change before the theaters can fully address racism, sexism, and harassment.
If you’re interested in learning more, I highly recommend Amy E. Seham’s book, Whose Improv Is It Anyway?
I use Old Spice Krakengard mostly because the name and graphic amuse me. I always thought it was protecting me from the Kraken but I read the container for the first time & the Kraken is actually protecting me from smelling bad.
I can’t get a good picture of it but right now there is a lone piece of green glitter sitting on top of my biggest, most obvious gall bladder surgery scar and the whole thing feels very me.