I’m going to start by expressing my ideas here the way I do when I give talks, so if you’ve heard me do this bit and it bothered you– get ready to wade through it[…]
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Day 175: Cultural appropriation vs. homage/honoring
This is the logic of the Indian mascot. “It’s meant to honor you!” Passive aggression at its finest. To begin making my case here, I’m going to do something I used to do in my[…]
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Day 174: Identity Tourism
I promised at the end of yesterday’s post that I’d talk a bit more about how I’m utilizing Identity Tourism in my own research. It’s easiest to start by explaining what Lisa Nakamura means by[…]
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Day 173: The Challenges of Self-Definition
It seems like yesterday, but it was long ago. This is another story. I’m what people call a hybrid scholar. This is a thing that many people and departments claim to celebrate and to admire[…]
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Day 172: This is what happens when you don't think first
So today I saw this. It’s hard to find much from the originator of “The Chocolate Challenge” now that she’s left Instagram and deleted most of her social media posts. She did eek out this[…]
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Day 171: Writing Wrestling: The Failed Double-Turn Heard Round the Reddit
Here’s an article for some context of what I’m about to say. If you have heard me talk about wrestling at all, you know I don’t like Roman Reigns. It’s not that I don’t like[…]
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Day 170: Buying in vs. Selling Out (the Ol' Seth Rollins problem)
I work for — not to brag– one of the most innovative programs in the country. We’re small, but not THAT small (we have 400 majors and we are growing by the day). We do[…]
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Day 169: One of the weird quirks of teaching games
There’s a weird stigma that goes with teaching games. And no, I don’t mean the “do you think people are addicted to video games” question that I get every time I do a talk somewhere.[…]
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Day 168: Villains II: I'm not finished with you!
A story. Biggest secret on my blog (spoiler warning): I’m mostly Cherokee. We’ll skip the argument about what it means to be “part” something or mixed blood for now (it’s an argument I’ve made other[…]
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Day 167: Why the OA is a bad try at "premium" sci-fi
A few things before I start this post: I watched all of LOST. I didn’t like the ending, but I understood how the writers got themselves stuck there. Bad Robot tried to say it wasn’t[…]
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