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jawnbcI'm presenting a paper at a regional conference here on Friday. I'll most likely cruise in for my session, give my talk, hand out some copies, then slide on out. Lots to do, and a perusal of the programme means there's little of interest to me. Such is the life of an interdisciplinary research: ooh ah just a little bit from here. And there. And there. Ooh, a little bit more!
School Daze, heteronormative and homophobic gaze: school as hegemony for young queer men is the paper's title. It draws upon data from my post-doc research (on queer youth in Sydney and Vancouver), and there's some meaty stuff there. And I want to send out an article for review ASAP, so the conference paper is a good bridging exercise. I had aspired to send the article out by the end of September; end of October seems more likely. Please Mary, Mother of Gawd.
Speaking of whom...caught bits of a Hollywood telling of the Fatima visions last night. Looks like they corraled as many Mexicans as possible, used dark makeup to enhance the gringo actors' facial stubble on the rest, and never bothered to write dialogue that didn't sound wholly Merkun. Even Senor Bumblebee from the Simpsons would have been preferable. My favourite bit was the setup: baaaad socialists had tried to "supress" the Church in Portugal, a godless act of oppression.
I'll let you in on a secret: the Church was the biggest barrier to true democracy in most of Europe. If it weren't for "mother Church" Ireland would've been autonomous perhaps 300 years earlier. That so few Catholic kids made it through secondary school (let alone university) until after WW II ain't a coincidence folks: individualism is still considered a treacherous ethos in much of Catholic culture.
Though from the lads I've spoken to in my study, Catlicks ain't got a monopoly on homophobia neither.
School Daze, heteronormative and homophobic gaze: school as hegemony for young queer men is the paper's title. It draws upon data from my post-doc research (on queer youth in Sydney and Vancouver), and there's some meaty stuff there. And I want to send out an article for review ASAP, so the conference paper is a good bridging exercise. I had aspired to send the article out by the end of September; end of October seems more likely. Please Mary, Mother of Gawd.
Speaking of whom...caught bits of a Hollywood telling of the Fatima visions last night. Looks like they corraled as many Mexicans as possible, used dark makeup to enhance the gringo actors' facial stubble on the rest, and never bothered to write dialogue that didn't sound wholly Merkun. Even Senor Bumblebee from the Simpsons would have been preferable. My favourite bit was the setup: baaaad socialists had tried to "supress" the Church in Portugal, a godless act of oppression.
I'll let you in on a secret: the Church was the biggest barrier to true democracy in most of Europe. If it weren't for "mother Church" Ireland would've been autonomous perhaps 300 years earlier. That so few Catholic kids made it through secondary school (let alone university) until after WW II ain't a coincidence folks: individualism is still considered a treacherous ethos in much of Catholic culture.
Though from the lads I've spoken to in my study, Catlicks ain't got a monopoly on homophobia neither.
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Date: 2005-09-28 09:27 pm (UTC)It is really the most dysfunctional family that ever was.
I think that is why I have some a mixed view about the whole thing and why I don't leave the church. I figure there needs to be someone like me in the mix so I can make it better for others.
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Date: 2005-09-28 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 06:30 am (UTC)