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Corinna Nichols's avatar

Another excellent episode. I took a whole class about including that positionality stuff in the English/Rhetoric department (filling a req). GREAT critique and always a delight to listen to you!

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Colin Wright's avatar

Thanks Corinna! So glad you enjoyed it.

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Thoughts of a Canary Bird's avatar

Thank you guys for the effort. In a totally unrelated case, I object to Colin's use of the term "woke right" because there's no such thing. I do, though, agree with his point about not elevating Whiteness to counter-act racial division by the political Left.

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Colin Wright's avatar

Well, we can agree to disagree about the aptness of that term!

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Nikita Dorogavtsev's avatar

If they are using fiction, why do they actually skip the good literature? Ursula K. Le Guin "The Left Hand of Darkness" would work better, I guess :-)

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Nikita Dorogavtsev's avatar

Reading novels as an "academic" argument is used a lot in SoC8 as justification for voluntary body mutilation. eg. Handy, A. B., Wassersug, R. J., Ketter, J. T. J., & Johnson, T. W. (2015). The sexual side of castration narratives: Fiction written by and for eunuchs and eunuch “wannabes.” The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 24(2), 151–159.

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