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Blogging the Cs-Day 3

Submitted by dr. b. on Fri, 03/18/2005 - 1:01pm. 4Cs | Conferences | GLBT Issues | My Teacherly Self | This Is What a Feminist Looks Like
Day Two Continues: I went to a really good session on technology with Amy Kimme Hea, Gail Hawisher, and Cindy Selfe (after walking out of a panel billed as "role-playing games" that was actually about friggin' role playing, yeah, I know, rude but I don't really care at this point because some of these sessions have been really friggin' bad). Amy did a paper on wireless technologies, Gail on girl gamers and video games, and Cindy on violence in video games. Cindy's paper wasn't the usual video games are violent spiel, but rather looked at how violent video games are a product of our society rather than the other way around. She looked specifically at games created and/or used by the military. Good papers all around. They redeemed many of the crappy papers I had seen up until that point.

Meet with Will Banks and Barbara Schneider about the Technology Institute that we are doing at WPA this summer and then went to the Queer Caucus. I was elected co-chair, but I suspect it was a set-up :-)

Ensemble 2.5: Camo pants, black t-shirt, black doc martens

A night in the Castro

Yep, I have got to be the only queer person who ain't crazy about SF. Homelessness is rampant, even among young folks. The bars in the Castro were late and smelled really bad. There was good company though so it had its redeeming moments (notice that this post is all about redemption). Walked 4000 miles back to the hotel because we missed the last MUNI!

Day Three:

Ensemble 1: Spiderman pajama pants and a blue tank top.

Yep, slept in late because I have been busy as hell for the last two days and I have to be in sessions or SIGS until 7:30 tonight!

Planning on a video game panel at 11 and two featured sessions in the afternoon. Also a panel/book brainstorming meeting after the last featured session. Let's see if I make them all. More later.

Update: Enseble 1.5: I tried to wear jeans, I really did but I just couldn't. I opted for tan khaki, a red sweater, and white tennis shoes. Yep, just as I thought. I did get some strange looks as if I was just too casual. Me in Khakis and I'm watching other black women walking around in dresses and 3 inch heels (sorry, never happen)

I did see some good things today. I'll blog about them later when the level of snarkiness has decreased enough that I can blog about the good papers in the session without trashing the bad ones.

i.e. Paper titles: Technology the Great Equalizer*

Text of paper: blah blah blah technology blah blah blah white male privilege blah blah blah graduate student blah blah blah my first paper of my MA career .

Opps, see, sorry snarkiness quotient still too damned high.

More Later!

*Titles have been changed to protect the idocent .

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Really friggin' bad?

Submitted by clancy@culturec... on Sat, 03/19/2005 - 11:57am.
I guess I've been lucky; the sessions I've attended have been pretty impressive! I'm thinking about next year just taking a day and going to the sessions I usually dismiss out of hand to see if I'd change my tune about them.
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Not ALL of them were bad.

Submitted by dr. b. on Sun, 03/20/2005 - 1:55pm.
I did see some good sessions and I blogged those as well, but some of them were quite bad. It was much the case of this is something that I have just started to think about and haven't had time to really research. Or papers on blogs by people who haven't even READ a wide range of blogs, much less blogged themselves. There was a panel on Role-Playing Games in the classroom and all of the titles played off of gaming terms, but all of the papers were about doing role playing in the classroom. Yeah, right. I found myself feeling duped quite a few times this time around.
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Beaver Street

Submitted by alice@blogalice.com on Mon, 03/21/2005 - 11:09am.
Yes, there are many homeless there, especially under the overpasses and bridges. A few years back didn't New York or some other eastern demi-god send a busloads of homeless to SF? Claiming climate safety? Not sure if this is an urban legend or not; I can't seem to find anything on the internet about it. But on a lighter note, at the end of Beaver Street (ha!) in the Castro, there's a great butcher shop that sells big rolls of veggie salami. :o)
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