I think best when writing. I am, therefore, considering methodologies for writing future papers, and simultaneously doing a quick review of them. This should aid…
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Community Service Personal Reflection Journal
Most of my journaling for this class has already been posted here, in Collie’s Bestiary. However, in perusing the syllabus for this class, I re-read…
Continue Reading“Ending Violent Crime Cheaply & Permanently” by Medicine Story, pt. 2
In a fascinating storytelling style, Medicine Story shares the startlingly successful program he and various other Native American elders created to assist incarcerated men. Initially…
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Ending Violent Crime Cheaply & Permanently: A Vision of A Society Free of Violence by Manitonquat (Medicine Story) is an astonishing little book — one…
Continue Reading“The Next American Revolution” by Boggs & Kurashige
After reading The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige, I confess my primary reaction was a…
Continue Reading“Feminism & the Mastery of Nature” by Val Plumwood
This is an astonishingly “chewy” book! I’m impressed, as well as greatly enjoying Plumwood’s fascinatingly erudite, logical — and yet, I feel, still thoughtfully spiritual…
Continue Reading“Unbowed: A Memoir” by Wangari Maathai, pt. 2
Being a child of the US, I’ve only seen online, rather than face-to-face, the types of deeply vicious and misogynistic attacks which Maathai describes: [C]ertain…
Continue Reading“Unbowed: A Memoir” by Wangari Maathai, pt. 1
There is a phrase that’s apparently become popular on Twitter conversations where someone wishes to point out unconscious privilege: they state that the issue under…
Continue ReadingAdvanced Research Methodologies journaling
I dedicated most of this week to (amongst other things) catching up on the readings for this class, so I could start on the required…
Continue ReadingMore ecofeminism thoughts
I think what has astonished me the most this week is how (sometimes unwittingly?) destructive humans are. I had time to muse on this as…
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