Una Carta a Donald Trump

Señor Trump, Hola, mi nombre es Alcy y soy estudiante en Connecticut. Después de una investigación, aprendí que 35% de mujeres en el mundo han sufrido una ataque sexual o física (UN). También, 38% de las mujeres que murieron por asesinato, o fueron matadas por su pareja íntima (WHO). La violencia contra mujeres es una …

Misoginia

En el diccionario, la misoginia es definida como la aversión de desprecio y arraigado prejuicio contra las mujeres. Misoginia puede ser muchas cosas. Es la “Hola guapa!”del otro lado de la calle, es la “se lanza como una niña!”, y es las sucias miradas cuando llevas demasiada ropa o los silibidos cuando no llevas suficiente …

Refugees: some photos and words to close the 2015-2016 academic year

The 2015-2016 academic year is ending and it is time to think a little bit about what I have learned (what we have learned) about our “words” this year.  This year my students gave me the word “gender” and, truth be told, I continue learning about what the word means for others and I still …

Disfrazada (género: un autorretrato en sepia)

Saqué esta foto en Córdoba en abril 2016.  Una amiga me había prestado el vestido con la intención de que lo llevara a la feria de Sevilla, pero el día que fuimos a Sevilla llovía mucho y no me atreví ponérmelo por no querer ensuciarlo.  Otro día (un sábado), cuando todos los demás o dormían …

A photo: father (a tribute to fathers)

    Father.  Given my gender, I am a mother, but lately I have been thinking a lot about the role of fathers in my life.  Now that I am almost 46 years old, I have had the opportunity to see my own father with different eyes and to observe many of my male friends …

Pultizer prize winning photo, Gender, War and Romanticism

link to 2013 Pulitzer prize winning photography link to photo of Michelangelo's Pieta What attracts me about Romantic literature is the flowery and sensual language.  The rich linguistic detail and the tormented characters of Poe, Hawthorne, and Bécquer fascinate me.  Moreover, I love observing my students when they discover a literary passage that fills them …

Gender and photography (inspired by the New York Times Magazine, Dec. 2013)

  Can anyone please tell me, who left the elephant in the dishwasher? Or   Whose job is it to load and empty the dishwasher today? Many thanks to Erin for having shared her photo with me. Erin Stankiewicz, Untitled, 2015.

Gender defined 2015

A month ago I wrote my first draft of this entry.  I knew when I finished it that I didn’t like what I had written very much and that I wanted to redo it.  The honest revision suggestions from some of my female students convinced me to start anew.  And, in this way, I start …