Category Archives: voice

How does one talk to a daily blogger – how does one talk to a daily reporter?

At least with a reporter – there are what seem to be guidelines established through years of practice (by reporters and related administrators) and rule-making around news-making and reporting. When a reporter meets us f2f for a story or is going to be amidst us in a public venue we are aware that we will [...]

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conceptual Quilting

to find out more about what it means to “quilt conceptually” according to rad Zabibha (born in 2006) and Cyb Tabla (born in 2004)
go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Brouwer/172/149/42
work in-progress – always
considering also linking to Diva’s earlier moo projects – at least those that are still accessible

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The sled thread continues…

The archives aren’t updated yet – but when they do you can find the discussion…
Meanwhile – cutting and pasting a part of my most recent post to invite anyone in-world to IM me to be a part of the group I am forming.
THIS discussion is to me about SL education and how we as educators [...]

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Excerpt from writing for “Disrupting Grand-narratives” writing group on Friday…

Finally. A moment to write. To quickly swiftly wiggle my fingers over the keyboard. When I took this job – did I think it would slow down my writing and research? Yes I was warned. But I also knew that if I did not write I would stop breathing…. So I cannot stop writing.
But [...]

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writing self – march 2007

వూరు
“Vooru” – I punch that into the Padma telugu transformer – remember that at the theory cluster meeting they asked me if that was a form of insult.
But of course I cant cut and paste it onto the word document – but it works here – so maybe I should continue the notes here and [...]

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“staging authenticities” by itineraries that never take us “home”?

what can I say?
whose voices am I consuming as I say
why can I not say
when you can
but yet you want their authentic voices
what I tell you cannot be trusted
that’s what you say
as if you had heard the authentic
yourself
then why do you need me to reveal it to you
if you know what it should [...]

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evidence – and evidence of what and for who?

so what is the nature of evidence in the academe – who is required to provide what evidence and why…

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how may you be made ready to hear the voice(s) you ask me/us to reveal to you?
why do you want us to reveal that “authentic” voice to you?
who decided that if I put something in quotes it becomes his authentic voice?
how may you be made ready to hear the voices you think you will hear [...]

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For Phyllis and Candice – so we can continue

Grandmother of the heights

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