This weekend, while I was working on a review of Galileo’s Middle Finger for The Daily Dose (going up next Monday), one of our cats – Geraldine – jumped up on the kitchen table and knocked my milk stout over with her tail. Beer all over the keyboard! Luckily, my computer still works. It’s just the left-hand SHIFT and CTRL keys that seem to be a little reluctant to perform. Last night, while I was trying to beta a piece of writing for my wife the CTRL key kept trying to make me cut and paste things superfluously. Such is life with cats and computers.
The gender wage gap for women of color.
Salon member P.G. forwarded me this piece from The Guardian on the cruelty of believing life is fair.
This past week Boston was talking about economic inequality in college.
25% of adjunct faculty are on some form of government assistance. (Don’t read the comments)
Policing the consumer choices of people on government assistance is incredibly petty – yet widely accepted.
Are workplace wellness programs useful … or not so much?
The American Library Association’s GLBT Roundtable has posted a new nonbinary bibliography.
What do we mean when we say a queer character (or actual co-human) “just happens to be gay!”?
Are you an author of color? Your work is more likely to be banned or challenged.
ICYMI in earlier incarnations, Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “Who Do You Think You Are?”: When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity is now available at ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
Working on feminist-related research and writing? May 1st is the deadline to sign up for the 2015 Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop, “an online, asynchronous, interdisciplinary, participant-driven workshop for individuals working on feminist-oriented research projects.”
What have you been reading this past week?
Amiable Archivists' Salon 