Shelley M Park
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humor and seriousness
Thank you for this Maggie and James! Both the humor and the intellectual seriousness are welcome at this moment. And thank you for reminding me of Sontag's work on illness and its renewed relevance. I have no immediate answers to your questions, but ... -
Diversifying and/or subverting motherhood
Thanks for sharing your birth story with us. As you note, social media has fostered a normative script for birthing that can leave those requiring standard medical intervention feeling as if they have somehow 'failed' as mothers (before their c ... -
politicizing failure?
Thanks Rachel--both for introducing me to The LetDown, and for your astute analysis of it and other mom-coms that "lampoon individual failure." I agree that these shows could be read (charitably) as attempts to expose and critique the norms of ... -
Glamorizing vs normalizing breastfeeding
Thanks for these reflections on the McAdams photoshoot, Corrie. I agree that the buzz surrounding a white celebrity pumping while dressed in Versace requires an intersectional analysis. While celebrities may use their platform to advocate for breastfeedi ... -
alternative reading
Just a quick note to say that I like your alternative reading of the photo, Rachel! It is a provocative analysis of a provocative photo. I want to sit with the details a bit further. Right now, however, I'm thinking about how what you point to as a ... -
gaming the system
Thanks, Charlotte, for these observations about the different rhetorical framings of caring for children. Part of what is interesting in the dialogue surrounding the U.S. college admission scandal is that certain rich parents (read mothers) are now also ... -
savvy marketing vs politically subversive
A belated, post-semester response/clarification: I was not suggesting Oculus or Facebook were politically progressive or subversive! I am well aware of the fact that their goal is the accumulation of money and power. My point was not that their goals w ... -
A belated thanks Vicki. Now
A belated thanks Vicki. Now that I have finally finished the semester, I've had a chance to look at the link you sent. I've also got Fisher's book in my summer reading queue! I very much appreciate the references and insights you shared! ... -
Gender and imprisonment
Thanks for the reference to Kember's work, Dooley! I agree with much that you (and Kember) say here. Perhaps we could think of the imprisonment as a triangulated and highly gendered phenomena. What allows us to accept the imprisonment in the home ( ... -
corporal obsolescence or corporal transformation?
Thank you for this, Dillon! I have now become fascinated with Sarah Rothberg's work! You also have me thinking about what corporal obsolecence means. In sci fi tales of cyborgs, the organic fleshy body often gives way entirely (or mostly) to the cy ...