One of the things I find myself wishing I’d done more in college is take more gender studies classes. I took a class about gender and sexual identity in cinema as an undergrad that was a psychology course, and I was intrigued by the new-to-me concept of gender performance, the idea that at least part of our gender presentation is acting out the parts of “man” or “woman” as we’ve been taught they look like according to our surrounding culture. I think I like wearing […]
A Different Take On The End Of The World
My husband and I sometimes will stream some nonsense TV show in the 30-45 minutes before we go to bed. We don’t really watch it per se, it’s just kind of on in the background. Alaska State Troopers is a show we do that a lot with, and so is Doomsday Preppers. The latter is more interesting than you might think…the kinds of people who are preppers aren’t always the kinds of people you would imagine would be into that sort of thing. Sure, there […]
Millennial Malaise in San Francisco
I may have graduated from college almost ten years ago (eep!) but I went straight to law school after that, so I really only started to have that post-graduation trying-to-figure-it-out experience about 6 years ago. It took me a couple years….I spent nine months trying to find a job as a lawyer, doing a couple stints of book rush at the college bookstore to score some pocket money, then once I got into litigation practice I washed out (I have no problem admitting I couldn’t […]
What Ever Actually Happened To The Nazis, Anyway?
If you’d asked me, after high school, what history looked like from World War Two on, based on what I’d learned in class, I’d have probably said something like this: WW2 started in Europe, but the US stayed out until Pearl Harbor was attacked. There’d be a brief aside about Japanese interment on the home front, but once we got into the war overseas, America kicked ass and took names. We won the battles and liberated the concentration camps. Then there was the Cold War, […]