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orichalcum at 11:13am on 09/01/2007 under career
orichalcum at 11:13am on 09/01/2007 under careerSo, the teaching manual for the roleplaying course suggests having your students imagine what it would be like to grow up during a lengthy war, as would the Athenians in 403 BCE, who had been in an on-off again war since 431.
My students are 18. The U.S. has been at war since they were 12 or 13. A third of their lives, and probably most of the period when they were aware of the larger world.
It isn't just a metaphor anymore.
Also, most random question asked me at the conference, during a lunchtime feminism roundtable discussion about the need to mix theory with activism - by a person who has never actually met me, and is a major scholar in the field:
"So, Orichalcum, you work on prostitutes. Have you gone out and done any actual work or outreach with real prostitutes, like the Hos' Collective?"
My students are 18. The U.S. has been at war since they were 12 or 13. A third of their lives, and probably most of the period when they were aware of the larger world.
It isn't just a metaphor anymore.
Also, most random question asked me at the conference, during a lunchtime feminism roundtable discussion about the need to mix theory with activism - by a person who has never actually met me, and is a major scholar in the field:
"So, Orichalcum, you work on prostitutes. Have you gone out and done any actual work or outreach with real prostitutes, like the Hos' Collective?"
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