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Another teacher’s story

I got an email from Aleta Carpenter, with a recent story. I’ve got permission to post it here, and will add more soon. fyi – my students just watched and debriefed a “problematic moment” that came up in the original fishbowl discussion. They totally rock (!) and I had a few revelations, which I’ll be sharing…… Read more...

somehow, it works…

“It’s very public, what’s happening to her.” Oh attention-seeking one, do you recognize yourself here? 🙂
What’s happened to me in the last six months is also public. 20 pounds is noticeable. My students refrained from critiquing my dress at this level (ill-fitting, baggy, whoknows what adjectives they’d use. skank? Uh oh, THAT’s why I don’t try to talk … Read more...

social meanings of mullets

also known as a “Lady Bucks cut” (see the original comment). I don’t know if this site lives up to my friend’s claim of elucidating social meaning: they boil it down to aggressiveness. 🙁 Most of the people at the following site do not exactly appear as prime, representative specimens of the human race. Is that the point?… Read more...

a hockey symbol

So, Benjamin sees me today and asks, Do you call your hairstyle a mullet? I say, other people do, so I kinda go along with it. He said he’d just learned about it as a hockey symbol, that the Montreal Canadians all, at one time, had this short-on-the-top, long-in-the-back look. He said a few other things too which I hope … Read more...

I’m not the only one!

I had two anecdotes shared with me today about mullets – one about the Lady Buckeyes who all shared the same hairstyle (!) and another one from a student whose….cousin?….has a haircut “exactly” like mine but “doesn’t have a gay bone in her body”. 🙂
It’s encouraging that there actually ARE other women out there with this haircut. Tina had … Read more...

laughter

So, I’ve been thinking about this more since Gabi asked if it was a “feedback wrapping” (per the interpersonal communication curriculum utilizing Seashore, et al). I don’t think it was just my wrapping. I think folks might have recognized their own reactions, at least some of them. Today, while I was sharing some of this “story” with Uncle Sam, I … Read more...

maybe I’ll submit

an updated version to the First International Conference on Qualitative Research. Jung Yup shared the call, and I notice the first theme is autoethnography and performance. It occurs to me that this weblog in toto is a form of autoethnography….not to mention some of the specific categories and uses to which I’ve put it, most specifically with my interpersonal … Read more...