July 10, 2016 | Bridget Moynihan
What does a spoon have to do with mental or physical well-being? How can a metaphor or other form of figurative language help someone communicate an experience that might otherwise be very difficult to explain? How do the existing resonances that surround our everyday objects, like spoons, inform and empower our chosen metaphors?
June 13, 2016 | Bridget Moynihan
[tw: discussions of rape, sexual assault]
Sara Ahmed’s making-visible of the willful subject’s feminist role in her widely-cited 2010 article “Feminist Killjoys (and Other Willful Subjects)” continues to resonate deeply with intersectional feminist communities, and the significance of reclaiming the feminist killjoy cannot be overestimated. [1] Recently, I have been newly reminded of a very important point that Ahmed makes regarding anger in this same article.
April 18, 2016 | Bridget Moynihan.
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘scrapbook’? Why might an archive save a scrapbook and why would researchers turn to archived scrapbooks as objects of study? What can we possibly learn from scrapbooks? The answers to some of these questions might be a bit surprising.
