i read an amazing piece called “Brain Damage” by D. Amster in volume II Issue IV of $pread magazine. this writer flips the academic feminist mission of women like gail dines (and, formerly, me) to “save” women in the industry, parodying this activity by fictionalizing a team of women whose mission it is to save women from academia. the preface
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Jan 31, 2013
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many of you have requested my Gail Dines series return; so, I will be working on republishing those. in the mean time, check out the three-part article about Dines by Ms. Blog. I got the most awkward and hilarious line of my interview included in part two! If you don’t know who Dines is yet, this should paint you quite
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Apr 23, 2012
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In 2003, “Beth Brigham” enrolled to study business, marketing and public relations at Simmons College in Boston, MA. Soon after, a documentary film screened in the prerequisite Communications course Media, Messages & Society, which featured nearby Wheelock College American Studies Chair and Professor Gail Dines, caught Brigham’s attention. When she realized Dines was speaking at a memorial for late “radical”
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Nov 23, 2011
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on the ex-mentor: coming soon…
many of you have requested my Gail Dines series return; so, I will be working on republishing those. in the mean time, check out the three-part article about Dines by Ms. Blog. I got the most awkward and hilarious line of my interview included in part two! If you don’t know who Dines is yet, this should paint you quite
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