Monday morning I had the nicest calm breakfast, just me and my computer. Mmmmm! I crave things like bacon and hamburgers lately - after so many years of being a vegetarian, then a chickentarian, it still weirds me out to eat a hamburger. They go better with guilt, I'm sure.
I wandered all over this morning. I can barely even remember what the heck I did. The
then - lunch with Amhar and Melisande from Sacramento who is fabulously full of enthusiasm and I hope she always comes to wiscon! I tried to bully Amhar into volunteering to start the B.U. local chapter; I was not sure if she was excited or appalled by the idea.
I listened to most of an academic paper by the Katydid, on gender and how fem sf uses it to ... you know... to subvert the dominant paradise, I mean paradox, I mean paradigm... That Thing. Later she and I were taking the same shuttle to the airport and talked a lot about trying to do feminist work in academia. I complimented her boldness and bravery in doing that and told her that even the people trying to do it here had warned me it is difficult and would hurt me in an academic career. In her case (in G3rmany)- her department chair and advisor and someone else had called a special meeting to persuade her not to write about that topic because it was "not respectable." Ouch! "But I just refused to listen. They gave me money to be in the program - what are they going to do, kick me out?" And she makes an excellent living as an interpreter so was not worried about jockeying for academic position. All hail the Katydid!
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