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I'm going to go off-script for a moment and make some general commentary prompted by an essay over on Yaoi Playground. Apparently, there's some shipping crisis over in the Tokyo Ghoul fandom. I'm not going to pretend I know anything about what's happening there. Knowing ship wars from Bleach, I'm sure it's ugly af. But, Yaoi Playground's essay implied that gay/queer ship fans are particularly angry. As soon as I heard that, I have to admit, that my sympathy shifted 180 degrees.
Queer fans get the shaft a lot. And not in a good way.
There's a couple of things going on here that I'd like to address specifically from a queer point of view.
I feel like queer fans of shounen have been blind-sighted by sudden canon pairings a LOT. Naruto and Bleach being the most obvious and most egregious examples of this. Both Bleach and Naruto are shounen manga. What most queer fans read shounen for is the same thing I imagine all shounen fans sign up for: Explosions! Action! BIG-SWORDS! Cool fights! Honor and Justice! Big, obvious, evil bads! Random, unbelievable, but totally awesome power-ups!
Am I right, fam?
Romance, if it's present at all, tends to be very much of a subplot. Both Naruto and Ichigo had straight love interests, but that was not what the story was meant to be ABOUT, at least it didn't seem that way when the stories started.
Then, all of a sudden, at the end, there were marriages and babies and WTF.
I think straight fans should have been angered by those endings, too, and, from what I can tell, many of them were. Ending an action story with some kind of unnecessary time skip where there are marriages and babies makes literally no sense, and in fact does great harm to your story. You can tell J.K. Rowling I said so, too. I get the impulse to tie up all the loose threads, but unless you're specifically writing romance, what a good writer should focus on is making sure that the PLOT is complete: the bad guy(s) are defeated and the world/characters have changed/learned something.
Queer fans are particularly hurt by this impulse because no one ever thinks of us. (Exceptions being Yuri on Ice! and Legends of Korra.) But, 99.999999% of the time, no matter how hard you shipped their 'precious friendship,' the likelihood that the male hero is going to end up with their best male friend/rival is zilch.
The reason queer fans get angry about this isn't because we expect everyone to be gay, it's because there is LITERALLY NO REASON TO END AN ACTION MANGA THIS WAY. The manga can end without a canon ship tacked on.
You don't see queer fans being upset when the shoujo couple gets together, do you? (I mean, there are crazy fans, so probably you do, but…) most people know going into shoujo that they're going to get a girl falling for a boy! That's the main point of the genre. Romance novels, end with a romantic HEA. That's the deal.
Similarly, no one expects a yaoi hero to suddenly fall for a woman at the end (though I have seen that happen in yuri, so I guess there are exceptions to every expectation/rule.)
My point is, I think queer fans get particularly bent out of shape when a manga that is not otherwise marketed as romantic feels the need to slap on a straight romance.
Speaking of Harry Potter, this move also often feels punitive. I am pretty sure Rowling knew how hard a lot of her fandom shipped Harry and Draco. I'm also pretty certain that Kubo-sensei knew that most of his fandom preferred one straight ship over the other (all you have to do is see how the Bleach: The Musical was written to confirm. Similarly, if Kubo-sensei was ever in the audience when the fans screamed when Renji and Byakuya held hands briefly or when Kyouraku flirted with Ukitake, he also knew that he was purposefully breaking hearts when he broke those fan favorite gay couples apart.) I felt that, too, when Isayama-sensei tacked in a wholly unnecessary "no homo" comment on Reiner and Bertholdt in some of the later chapters of Attack on Titan. Like, it came so out of the blue, that my only conclusion is that the mangaka was reacting to fandom.
And, that's the second thing. We have to put up with a lot of queer-baiting. When I discussed this before in conjunction to Let's Take the Train Together, Shall We…? a lot of straight fans got bent out of shape. But, this is a real phenomenon. There are plenty of examples of queerness being used as a tease or as a joke, so that the straight/cis reader can be titillated and/or have a moment of "Oh, haha! People think they're a couple! How uncomfortable for them, teehee!" when the author has no intention of ever getting the two same-sex characters together.
Often, this happens in shows/manga that I really enjoy. An example I brought up on my comment over at Yaoi Playground, is Free! Iwatobi Swim Club/Eternal Summer. I loved that show for its queer subtext, but let's be honest: no one gets together at the end. No one ever explicitly comes out as queer. People will argue that's not what that show was about (it's about swimming!), but I will argue right back that the writers knew what they were doing and did so intentionally. There's a whole episode that's entirely subtextual where Nagisa has to "come out" to his parents and is kicked out. I mean, sure, you can read that entirely on its surface, but subtext only works if there's a there there, if you know what I mean?
Girl's Monthly Nozaki-kun has a lot of this, too. I also adored that story, and because it's a shoujo, I was not mad about the ending of the anime. But, there are definitely moments where there's a gay element that gets played up…. remember the dating sim episode? I loved it, but it was a wink-and-a-nod, not full on 'baiting,' per se, but it was queerness played for laughs.
These queer-baiting moments aren't meant to be hurtful, I don't think. I think they're just as the Wikipedia article defines queer-baiting: what they are is trying to draw in queer-friendly audiences. But, that being said, they are also done with NO INTENTION of ever making good on the queer ship tease.
Queer fans get double-slapped this way. We get your straight pairing rammed down our throats, while we're also expected to laugh along at hilariously awkward it is when straight people get mistaken as a gay couple.
I'm not even going to touch the odd fetishizing of our sex that happens.
My point is, if you run across a queer fan who is angry about a straight ship becoming canon? Try to consider the source. Some fans are just crazy, we all know that. But, sometimes this hurt we're feeling comes from all the other places where we were unexpectedly, or even intentionally, jerked around. We love our ships with the same passion you do. We hate to see ours broken, but was also have this huge history of having to be broken. It used to be that even gay writers wrote only tragic gay romances, where you could find love, but it had to be torn from you. Ukitake had to die, that was the only way to have pure queer love.
And we're sick of it.
Thank goodness for "Yuri on Ice!," eh, fam?


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"I looked up and here is the piece of paper floating down," said Jimmy Beasley, who found the photo of a young girl after the storm passed on May 24. "It landed within 10 feet of a weeping willow."
Beasley wanted to find who the photograph belonged to so he shared it on his Facebook page. The image was re-shared hundreds of time.
Our sister station FOX8's Chad Tucker shared it on his page and a few hours later Ashley Baity messaged him to say the young woman in the picture was her, taken when she was in eighth grade at Stone Mountain State Park. The image came from Baity's mother's home in Courtney, which was destroyed by the tornado, 35 miles away.
"I think it's crazy that it ended up so far," said Baity, who met Beasley Thursday morning. "The photo came from my mom's home that is just completely flat from the tornado."
Beasley met Baity with the photograph, a card and a new frame for her mom, who survived the storm with lacerations.
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Jeremy Boynes wrote: >>Using the "code is checked in" resolution to discussions is >> not a good precident to set. > The "I don't like what you did but don't have a working alternative" one > isn't either :-) I think the proceedural point is that you should have flagged your intent to try a single file approach before writing and checking in the code. Then both bad discussion styles could have been avoided. > If you turn the thought process around so that the 'merge' becomes > stripping all geronimo-namespace elements from the file, the sync is > trivial. It is much simpler than trying to merge the structure elements > of two partial files. Except if there are modifications to the standard elements of the files - with some modifications done in the standard file by developers/tools working on jboss/websphere etc and other modifications done to the standard elements in the geronimo file. > I don't see the problem here - if Jasper is using web.xml, then > a) generating it from a unified geronimo-web.xml is trivial > b) as all the geronimo elements are in a different namespace, > it would be easy for Jasper to ignore them (if it doesn't > already) I'm not worried about the geronimo elements. I'm worried about the duplicate content of the standard elements. Think of an IDE that is running a webapp itself. It is going to be parsing and/or generating web.xml. The developer adds some filters, adjusts some initparams, fixes some security constraints. They now want to deploy the results in geronimo, but have an geronimo-web.xml in existance. But they can't just regenerate that geronimo-web.xml because another developer may have been fixing their servlets using geronimo and may have added some filters, adjusted some initparams, fixed some security constraints etc. etc. If the geronimo using developer was forced to make those changes in the standard web.xml (instead of geronimo-web.xml) then the IDE developer will be able to use normal change control to merge the differences. If they just regenerate geronimo-web.xml they may blat over the changes of the geronimo developer. OK, you can come back with other examples of how changes in web.xml by the IDE developer will totally break a geronimo-web.xml. However, I think it is the case that both approaches ugly sync and maintenance scenarios. We can both come up with nightmare scenarios, so I don't think we can say one is better than the other for all uses and lifecycles. So given that I see no clear advantage, I believe it is best to go with defacto standard practises and good comp sci principals of normalized data. > c) you have already said you wanted to avoid duplicate parsing > which would mean exposing the POJO model to Jasper. As the > standard one is a generalization of the geronimo one, this > should be simple. Eventually. Don't hold your breath waiting for this. But the two files approach can still create a single POJO tree that we pass to a modified jasper. > I can probably get a simple loader done tonight - would that help? I am (or probably Jan) is happy to write the code for the web.xml loader (although I see the POJO model has been created/generated - thanks whoever). It's not a matter of writing the loader, it is a matter of designing the loader and the geronimo-web.xml schema. If you think having working code is good for the debate, then I'll write a web POJO loader that loads from web.xml and geronimo-web.xml? cheers
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:20 pm
Post subject: visitation
I have a 7 year old son, whom his father has only seen for 6 months after his first birthday. I have sole Custody and he has resonable visitation. I receive a certified letter in the mail on Saturday that he has contacted a attorney and his attorney told him to send me a letter stating he wants to come and pick up my son next Sunday for 4 hours so they can get to know each other. I have a problem with this I have taught my son not to go to strangers and now his father is a stranger and wants to walk up to the door say I'm your dad lets go?? I want some sort of ease into meetings first so I know he can be trusted. I called the father and left a message as so far he has yet to contact me back? HELP???
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I would not let your son go with him, offer to meet him somewhere in a public place, if he has a problem with that, then I would be concerned as to why he wants him alone for any amount of time. I would call an attorney and find out your rights. I have 2 daughters and my ex didn't see them for 7 months, that was 5 years ago now, I made arrangements to be with him when he wanted to visit the girls, it turned out to be a great visit, now for the past 5 years he has the kids every other weekend, and sometimes takes them for a couple hours during the week. I would say go with your gut, there are too many cases of parents running off with their child.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:21 pm
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I have a friend whom is wondering about her rights, she has custody of her son, but the father has visitation, he does not want to give her his home address, and in her papers it says it is in the childs best interest for both parents to have eachothers home address, home phone number and work number..Do you know if she can refuse to send her son with the father?
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:21 pm
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The father is not going with the court order.
She needs his phone number and address that is not too much to ask for.
She should get ahold of her attorney and get him invovled.
My son's father never showed up, go figured. I put my son through being upset and having nightmares, and why??? His father was the one who contacted me seems to me he is playing games, I have a phone call at 10:30pm from a pay phone and a women asked if this was "Elliot" household, which is my attorney's name, I don't know for a fact, but I am sure it is my son's fathers wife...... Why play games when it hurts the child. I am going back to court to try and take away his parental rights, at this point I don't care about the $52.00 a week for all the pain he is putting my son though.
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if your ex wants to see the child, he will have to be reaquointed with him. also, this can be considered abandonment. seek a profetional on this one! this is a traumatic experience for the child! a parent cant just walk in and out of a childs life when ever it seemes convenient. remember the best interests of the child.
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When a court determines the visitation rights of a noncustodial parent, it usually orders "reasonable" visitation , leaving it to the parents to work out a more precise schedule of time and place. Reasonable visitation allows the parents to exercise flexibility by taking into consideration both the parents' and the children's schedules. Practically speaking, however, the parent with physical custody has more control over the dates, times and duration of visits. He or she isn't legally obligated to agree to any particular schedule, but judges do take note of who is and who is not flexible. If you are inflexible, merely to vex your ex, it can backfire when you need to ask the court for something in the future.
The parents have to cooperate and communicate frequently, for the reasonable visitation approach to succeed. If you suspect right off the bat that reasonable visitation won't work, insist on a fixed schedule and save yourself time, anger, and possibly money. If you've already agreed to reasonable visitation and it isn't working out -- for example, one parent is consistently late, skips scheduled visits or doesn't inform the other parent where he or she is planning on taking the children -- you can go back to court and ask that the arrangement be changed.
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hi i am a 19 year old mother and i have a 6 month old son who is the happiest baby in like well in my family. the father is taking me to court for visitation and he has a past with drugs and jail. he has been tazered by a cop, and has violated probation more then once. he has been harresing my family and me for the past 2 months or so and i have not spoken to him for a month. i tried to get a restraing order on him, but since there is no violence in volved with this harrassment, then the cops cant do anything. he has threated my sisters boyfriend and has been writing my letters since he found out i had my son. he is not on the birth certificate, he was not apart of my life since the 3rd month which was when i found out i was pregant. i realized that i didnt want to feel like i was suppose to be with some one because i was having their baby, also i dumped because he lied alot to me and treated me like a taxi. i offically stoped talking to him when i was at work and my boss came up to me and asked me why the cops where calling for me. so i called my parents house and they said that the cops had been there asking if i knew anything about jesse the father and him stealing anything lately seeing as he was caught after his cerfew and dressed in all black about a block away from where a house was broken into. i was so stressed out i broke down at work and had to go home. i found out that night that he was doing crack and other drugs. i told him to leave me alone and didnt hear from him since then. he has been rehab and he had his mother talk my sister in to telling her everything about me and joey. my sister then moved into to the duplex next to them and after that jesse had my neice call me so ... anyways i have to go to court because i gave jesse a chance and believe that he would drop the potition on me and he didnt and he filled out a default out on me. and then set up a hearing. i have a hearing. about two weeks ago i got another hearing paper in the mail when i called the court house to see if this was real they said that they had no infomation on this date nor anyother. so it is a fake hearing. if you could i would like advice i go see my lawyer on wedsday because that is when i will have the 1000 dollars that she is asking for. i dont want this man apart of my sons life because what he did in the past what he has done to my family and what he has done to me. thank you
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I'm always interested in reading successful queries, especially memoir queries because they are so difficult to write–at least for me. I was so close to my story that it was nearly impossible for me to describe it with any degree of objectivity. It seemed easier just to write the whole darn book!
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I am the author of over twenty-five children's books published by Houghton Mifflin, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, and others. My newest book, Little Elfie One (Harper) will be out in September 2015. My first book for adults, Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp Through Jane Austen Classic, was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and BBC America. I am a writer and editor for womensmemoirs.com, and have published short stories and essays in The Antigonish Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary Mama.
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- Identify and Highlight the Central Conflict in Your Story
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If you are having difficulty identifying the conflict, think of your story cinematically. Close your eyes and imagine you are sitting in a theater watching your memoir as a film. What is the drama unfolding on the screen? How does the poster in the lobby describe it? What image is used to illustrate the essence of the story?
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The Department of Gender Studies proposes that Queen's University's interests and international reputation would be best served at this time by the creation of a full-time, tenure track position in Islamic feminisms, with additional emphases on social justice, anti-oppression, and intersectional scholarship. The strategic impact of such a hire would be immense. The growth of scholarship in this area is evident in recent hires and ongoing searches in Islamic Studies at major universities such as the University of Chicago, the University of Sydney, Australia, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Northwestern University, the University of Toronto, Wesleyan University, Georgia State University, and Harvard University. It is also evident in the development of new curriculum priorities internationally; see Harvard's list of fall courses on Islamic Studies at:http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/programs_courses/islamic_studies_related_programs.php
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A hire in Islamic feminisms is responsive to numerous points from the University's academic plan for the future.
The hire speaks to Goal 1.2, creating a unique Queen's experience, through fostering global learning and learning across differences.
The hire speaks to Goal 2.1, which is the development of Queen's as a research university that offers both high-quality graduate and undergraduate degrees in selected fields, and a rich undergraduate experience. The benefits of attracting an outstanding scholar in such an important emerging field are obvious in terms of both undergraduate teaching and supervision of graduate projects, e.g. we already have one MA student working on Turkish Islamic feminisms.
The hire speaks to Goal 3.1, fostering a rich, innovative and dynamic research environment, by attracting an outstanding researcher in a key emerging field.
The hire speaks to Goal 4.2, curriculum delivery with efficiency, in that both engages with our current curriculum and offers new opportunities.
The hire speaks to Goal 4.3, interdisciplinarity, by reinforcing Queen's commitment to recruiting and retaining interdisciplinary scholars, and thereby supporting Queen's interdisciplinary programs, of which Gender Studies is perhaps one of the most interdisciplinary, consisting of faculty from nine different research fields.
The hire speaks to Goal 4.4, international engagement, by promoting teaching and scholarship involving non-western thought and paradigms, by increasing opportunities for collaborative work with other institutions committed to the study of Islamic thought, e.g. take the model of Queen's ongoing involvement with Birzeit University in the West Bank (see http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-128411-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html), and by creating the potential for increased foreign enrolment and for new student and faculty exchange programs (e.g. consider the model of the Matariki network of universities).
The hire speaks to Goal 4.7, integration of inquiry, interdisciplinarity, internationalization, imagination, innovation and inclusivity, by providing an academic space for intersectional scholarship.
The hire speaks to Goal 5.1, community, by responding to Queen's culture of whiteness with a hire attuned to anti-racist work.
The hire speaks to Goal 5.5, sustainability of academic units, by reinforcing the strengths of a growing, thriving, interdisciplinary program.
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The Gender Studies Department is committed to interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, social justice, and engagement with non-western forms of knowledge. These commitments are demonstrated through our recent response to the Faculty of Arts and Science Planning Document and more fully explored in our Departmental Academic Plan.
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* Study of Gender as an analytic category requires interdisciplinarity. But interdisciplinarity does not require a consideration of gender. This positions us in a unique relationship to interdisciplinarity that is not attended to by most other disciplines/departments/faculties.
ii) Intersectionality
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* One of the great strengths of our department is our commitment to critical race and intersectional scholarship and future hirings and curriculum changes will be built upon this priority.
* We agree that all departmental faculty will demonstrate their commitment to critical race and intersectional scholarship by ensuring that all courses offered will have this as a focus.
* We agree that the focus of our new graduate program will include critical race and intersectional scholarship.
* We are aware of our weaknesses within the fields of critical race and intersectional scholarship, namely in the areas of Aboriginal and Middle Eastern feminist research and teaching. We are determined to make this a priority in future hirings.
Our response to the Faculty of Arts and Science Planning Document also states our commitment to this intersectionaltiy of race, class, gender and sexuality, as follows:
* Our longstanding anti-racism and activism is integrated into our curriculum.
* Intersectionality: power, race, sexual and gender diversity
* In a culture of whiteness, the paradox is that the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University is producing TAs who go to other institutions and generate an identity and reputation for Queen's. The whole campus benefits from the work of our TAs.
iii) Social Justice
Our department was founded as a result of an international feminist social movement. Thus, we have an enduring allegiance to incorporate social justice praxis into our vision, methods and pedagogy. This is outlined in the preamble to our departmental vision of 2001, as follows:
Our students, academic and non-academic staff focus on women's issues and experiences but in all facets of our work we strive to address more general issues of equity, power and social justice in ways mindful of the complexities of a diverse society.
This commitment is embraced in the everyday functioning of our department. Our fourth year practicum ensures that our students make meaningful connections to the larger social justice community and produce research that meets community needs. Our faculty are amongst the most popular on and off campus as speakers on social justice issues. Our staff have strong allegiances to social justice work in their communities. Our faculty work closely with social justice communities locally, nationally and globally, through their on-going research projects. And our students learn to balance academic and community engagement in their undergraduate and graduate programs in Gender Studies.
iv) Global and Non-Western knowledges
Due to our critical stance toward knowledge in the traditional disciplines, we in Gender Studies are open to self-critique for our Western-dominated understanding of knowledge, politics and social justice. In the last few years our Department has undergone considerable soul-searching about how we can best challenge our Western-based foundations and transform our knowledge, theory and praxis to reflect more global perspectives. Our hiring of a scholar in Aboriginal global HIV/health movements in 2009 demonstrated our desire to reposition our understanding of feminist knowledges. And our desire to hire a scholar in Islamic feminisms helps solidify our goal of being a leader at Queen's and in the larger academic community to develop a discipline that reflects the increasingly an interactive and global world.
Our decision to host Queen's Arab Studies program is part of this desire to reconfigure our department and our discipline. And our 2008 Departmental Academic Plan addresses this concern, as follows:
* We are committed to a global understanding of feminist research methods, feminist social movement politics and feminist theory.
* Feminism is a study of emancipation and must be global in perspective.
* Throughout our curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate level we will include Western and non-western cultures in our examples of feminist theory, methods and praxis.
Relevance to Diversity and Equity/ Inclusivity Report
Headed by Dr. Adnan Husain, the Diversity and Equity Task Force (DET) published the "Diversity and Equity Task Force Action Plan, 2010-2011" in September 2010. Offering an action plan on how best to implement recommendations made by previous equity and diversity reports, DET renders apparent some ways to engage with Academic Planning at Queen's, presenting a five-point scheme, as follows:
- the importance of defending equity and diversity "as Core Undergraduate Competencies";
- diversifying curriculum;
- piloting "interdisciplinary courses" which specifically address "equity, diversity, and social justice";
- reviewing Queen's National Scholar program with a focus on its "equity component";
- reviewing current capacities and support for internationalizing "research and curriculum" in the areas of "social justice/social difference" and "global/non-western cultures"
In proposing a position in Islamic feminisms, the Department of Gender Studies addresses all five of DET's recommendations for reform.
1. The position will make an important contribution to Queen's curriculum, specifically in the areas of equity and diversity. By offering courses on the nexus of gender, religion, race, and social justice, the incumbent scholar will create space for addressing issues of diversity and equity in relation to Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. His/her courses will attract students from diverse educational, racial, and social backgrounds and will respond to growing demand for such courses at every level of the university.
2. By introducing courses that educate students around relationships between Islam and feminisms (and, more broadly, gender, race, and religion), the incumbent will fill a gap in current curricular offerings at Queen's. To date, there is only one course on offer at our university that explicitly addresses Islam and feminism (GNDS 401); this is in spite of a vast increase in academic research and scholarship on the topic and the necessity for exposure to such materials for students at Queen's at all levels. Therefore, by offering and creating courses in the area of Islam and feminisms, a hire in this position will meet the goal of "diversifying" the Queen's curriculum.
3. Research in the field of Islamic feminisms is interdisciplinary by its very nature, drawing on academic expertise from a number of areas, including Sociology, Politics, Gender Studies, Literature, Religion, Development Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. The incumbent will likely have an interdisciplinary academic background, with research and scholarship agendas that showcase a strong commitment to issues of equity and social justice.
4. The Queen's National Scholar program attracts the best and brightest academic talents from across the world. While in suspension, DET's recommendation that the program be reinstated with a focus on "global and non-western cultures" can be met through the creation of this position in Islamic feminisms. Islam remains configured as outside of "western cultures." A hire with expertise in contemporary Islam as it is globally understood and practiced will meet the above stated goals. To ensure a "global" and non-western focus in its hire for a scholar in the vast area of Islamic feminisms, the department will highlight the importance of having a global focus and experience in teaching and research in "non-western cultures."
5. DET speaks of the importance of identifying "institutional and endemic challenges to teaching and research" in social justice and global/non-western cultures. One challenge to meeting this goal is the lack of expertise in the field of Islamic feminisms in the Gender Studies Department specifically and Queen's more generally. Teaching for social justice, equity, and diversity from global and non-western perspectives requires specialized academic cadre.
Relevance to Queen's culture and the Henry Report
The Henry Report states that Queen's University should challenge a "culture of whiteness" that has been ensconced in a "Eurocentric" curriculum, and has presented barriers to the success of faculty of colour in departmental culture, relationships with students, and review, tenure, and promotion procedures. A position in Islamic feminisms housed within the Gender Studies Department directly addresses these concerns by creating a position focused on global and critical race studies and specifically Islamic feminist studies, producing a more diverse curriculum and an open and inclusive atmosphere.
Our Department has a track record of hiring, retaining, and tenuring internationally-recognized and highly-successful faculty women of colour who are leaders in their fields and, most importantly, who specifically focus their teaching and research at Queen's on critical race studies. However, we remain aware that the conditions that in part led to the commissioning of the Henry Report – in which faculty women of colour working on critical race studies left the University because of an environment unwelcoming to them not only personally or culturally, but in their respective departments – require constant ongoing self-criticism. The Gender Studies Department is strongly committed to being/remaining an effective and welcoming home for faculty of colour to be supported in developing their national and international recognition as intellectual leaders in their fields. When filling a position in Islamic feminisms, we will strive to present a working environment in which, regardless of self-identification (racialized, minority, person with a disability), any new hire can feel confident he/she will not confront the unmarked structural barriers to a healthy working environment that led faculty women of colour to leave the University prior to the report.
Conclusion: Broader Implications of the Position
9/11 showed the Western world that new engagement is needed with the Middle East, with Islamic thought, and with non-western knowledges. Queen's historic leadership in the realm of policy means that Queen's must confront the new realities of the 21st century in its academic planning and hiring praxis, continuing Queen's mission to prepare leaders and citizens for a global society, as our letterhead boldly asserts. We understand the dilemma of numbers in the University at this difficult time. But numbers are not everything; sometimes, a bigger vision is more important. Marginalization of non-western work happens at the foundational level (curricular) and the instructional level across this university. We expect that this appointment will be transformative for our own Department and for Queen's.


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korver posted a City Journal entry in True EarthThe tour continues as we venture into North Africa, and our first destination is the ancient royal capital city of Fez, Morocco. In the heart of Fez's medina (an ancient walled city, without streets) you can find the stunning Chouara Tannery, one of Africa's most unique wonders. For nearly a thousand years, the locals have been tanning and dying their hides here - if you can get past the pungent odor (its suggested to hold mint leaves near your nose while visiting) it's a destination that you won't want to miss. After an extended trek through the Sahara Desert - we find ourselves at the shores of one of Africa's disappearing wonders, the once great Lake Chad. Climate change and overuse by the locals have turned much of the lake bone dry, and its estimated that the lake is only about 1/20 of the size it once was back in the 1960's. While much of the lake is long gone - there's still a number of small communities dotting the receding shorelines, with the locals adapting to the changes and making the best of what they have. We venture back out into the Sahara - and for anyone traveling in these parts, its vital to know where the closest oasis is. Water is a precious resource here - and it could be hundreds of miles before you find the next closest source. After traveling east through the seemingly endless Sahara Desert - we finally reach the Red Sea. This salty, hot sea is some to some of the most unique animals and underwater flora in the world, and the coral reefs here are quite amazing. While other coral reefs around the world are slowly dying due to climate change - the ones here are unique in the fact that they don't bleach and are extraordinarily resistant to rising temperatures. We travel into Egypt - and no visit is complete without a trip to the legendary Nile River. The world's longest river runs through the heart of the country, providing farmers much needed water and making this one of the most populated regions in all of North Africa. Riverboats run for much of the rivers length here, making it an excellent way to get up close views of the surrounding villages and archeological sites. The tour wraps up with one of the most famous landmarks in world and the only remaining wonder of the ancient world - The Pyramids of Giza. These unmistakable structures were built by the rulers of ancient Egypt back in 3000 BCE - primarily as tombs for pharaohs and queens. Despite the fact that their sparkling white limestone exterior is long gone, as well as many of the surrounding structures - they've stood the test of time like few structures on the face of the planet. Be sure to visit at night - the entire complex comes to life as the pyramids are lit up - an unforgettable sight. Don't forget to comment, like, and follow True Earth if you haven't already! -korver --- Previous Update: "Tour of Africa: West Africa" Big thanks to @_Michael, @RobertLM78, @scotttbarry, @Ceafus 88, @MushyMushy, @CorinaMarie, @Jonas_Chaves, @bobolee, @Odainsaker, @RandyE, @Manuel-ito, @mike_oxlong, @bladeberkman, @sucram17, @TMTS, @TekindusT, @Toby Ferrian, @redfox85, @metarvo, @mrsmartman, @SC4L0ver, @MAW, @Marushine, & @Golhbul for all the likes!


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|Detective LaRue - Letters from the Investigation: Dear Reader, As if I didn't suffer enough in obedience school, now I'm in prison! I assure you the whole thing is a big mistake. (Honestly, how should I know where the Hibbins' cats are?) With Mrs. LaRue vacationing in France, and the Snort City Police Department stalled by a string of canary burglaries, I must take matters into my own paws. Mounting an investigation to prove my innocence will be dangerous. It will require great cunning and bravery. I may be putting my life on the line. But that is a risk I must take in order to preserve my spotless reputation. Your intrepid detective, Ike
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|Dear Mrs. LaRue - Letters from Obedience School: Dear Anyone Who Will Listen, Have you ever been unjustly punished? Banished to your room? Denied your favorite foods? Then you will relate to the hardship and woe I'm enduring while locked up at the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy. This is a school for BAD DOGS, not good ones like your dear old Ike! Trust me when I tell you that I am being horribly mistreated here, and I grow sadder and lonelier (not to mention skinnier!) by the hour. Can somebody please tell Mrs. LaRue to come and get me right away?! Sincerely, The loyal and misunderstood, Ike LaRue
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