Addis family make 7ft Dalek from 100,000 lego bricks While I, of course, applaud this initiative (it is a well known fact that Daleks are …
This is interesting
parquepatriciosailatan: As you very well know, this word is quite interesting, it can be used as a term of endearment (in fact my mum calls …
Also (yes, this is a rant)
I wish people who have not spent a considerable amount of time in Latin America would stop imparting their wisdom about what a “post racial” …
This is interesting
Non Spanish speaking people on Twitter trying to explain to me what constitutes racism in South America based on what British media tells them regarding …
I think part of what I mean to say is that publishing something implies consent to quote or cite it, whether someone is a feminist and whether it’s online or in a book. If the publication was somehow protected, not available to everyone without a password or something like that, then there’s an issue because the author of the paper is thereby making private communication public. Admittedly, I don’t know enough about the community to speak authoritatively, but as a researcher, I feel alright here
To me, it matters not so much from an academic perspective but in the larger context of how Women of Color who blog have to …
I’ve been thinking about your question yesterday and just read your new post on the topic of the academic paper and the bloggers. I think you raise an interesting point about the fact that the author doesn’t recognize her positionality, that she’s a member of the community she purports to study. But the main question, about whether she needed to contact the bloggers to get their permission is murkier: blogs are published work and, in publishing something, one must know it might be cited.
I agree with you and that’s why I placed the issue at the intersection of academia and feminism. From the academic perspective, you are right, …
Feminist blogging and academic research: when consent is murky
Yesterday I raised my ethical concerns about a White woman writing an academic paper involving the struggles of Women of Color in the feminist blogosphere. …