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The Political Necessity of Mathematical Education

The Political Necessity of Mathematical Education.

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New theme

As you can see, I’ve changed my blog theme.  It was good while it lasted, but as this blog evolved from the personal to the academic (as it seems do all things I touch), I needed a more professional theme;

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Time for some general updates

It’s been a long time since I’ve made a post about, well, me.  Sorry, guys, I’ll try not to make it boring. I’m (sort of, unsuccessfully) reading up on stuff for that post about ACT UP that I promised months

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Posted in Blog News, Classics, Homestuck, Insanity, Nerd Stuff, Politics, Queer Life, Queer Stuff, Trolling

General Reading List for Trans* people and Trans* Allies: Print Books by Author

So, at Philly Pride on Sunday, I was with my straight-ally/adopted-big-sister C and another genderqueer classicist (tumblr: nonnobissolum) whom I’ll call Q.  So, inspired by some drag queens, C said, “You know, we should try to get RuPaul for your

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Phones

I hate talking on phones.  It makes it really hard to see the words.  I can’t see any written letters or look at a person’s face or even see images related to the words.  I have to translate the sounds

Posted in Insanity, Nerd Stuff

Against Transphobes: In Response to Roger Erdvig

Recently, I was searching the “trans*” tag on WordPress.  Most of the posts there were positive.  One in particular (read it here), by Roger Erdvig, was not.  Entitled “Boys will be boys…or will they?”, this post was blatantly transphobic, ageist,

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Posted in Classics, Delmore-Erdvig-Fowler Dialogue, Nerd Stuff, Politics, Queer Life, Queer Stuff

This is a pure nerd rant

So, sorry I haven’t posted in so long.  School and spring break happened.  After a week of intense boredom in a PA small town (seriously, the only good things that happened were two awesome burritos and the purchase a pair

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Rock, Paper, Scissors–TRICKSTER MODE!!!

Bryn Mawr Fencing meets Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.  On Thursday, practice went unusually well for me.  Apparently, the three major fencing tactics (direct attack, parry-riposte, and feint) can be thought of as rock, paper, and scissors.  Once you know of

Posted in Homestuck, Trolling, Uncategorized

All Finals Done!

I think I did okay.  But why do Greek verbs have to have SIX principle parts, and none of them the infinitive?  Now I just have to turn in a take-home section–that has to be tomorrow.  Not wandering around campus

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Finals

It’s finals week.  For me, that means, for the first time since August, I don’t have to get up before 10 to make an 8:45 class. (Why are intro language so early in the morning at Bryn Mawr it sucks!) 

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