October 2016

Check Out This University of Saskatchewan Gender Role Reversal Project

#Advertising, #Culture, #Video /

This culture jam is a school project that was created for a Women and Gender Studies class at the University of Saskatchewan by Sarah Zelinski, Kayla Hatzel and Dylan Lambi-Raine.It begs the question about the sense of our gender representations in advertising. If they are strange for men, they must be for women too, but

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What’s Gone Is Gone. Next Please

#AutoBiographical, #FlashNonFiction, #NonFiction, #Reflections, #Writing /

Security: When I was eight, Susan, a classmate, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered, and her severed fingers mailed home. I remember Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King getting shot. The Zodiac Killer haunted our region. The Vietnam War was raging. Horror was my childhood’s backdrop. My first friends: after moving to Sacramento in 1972, becoming

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My Worst Job

#AutoBiographical, #Brasil, #NonFiction /

How I Lost Some of My Life Once upon a time, I became a systems analyst for the now-defunct Banco Nacional. Dias, the R&D department manager, hired me, assigning me, the “resource”, to a gringo-hating division manager. They asked me to validate a network system to be installed in over 400 branches, a deal worth millions, the

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