> 1. I am a faculty member in Education at the University of British
> Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
> UBC is a somewhat conservative public institution which does odd things, like
> going to court to defend the right of the university to exist as a zone
> where normal human rights provisions do not apply.
> This is a true story.
>
> 2. Since I successfully fought for spousal benefits irrespective of
> sexual orientation for all staff at UBC, I have been subjected to
> extraordinary levels and kinds of discrimination-- especially by my
> colleagues in Education -- and most especially by those identified as
> "feminists" who are also white and "straight".
> This is a true story.
>
> 3. I work on issues of "inclusion"-- albeit a radical notion of inclusion.
> The systematic production of deviance in/by pedagogy is my aim-- the
> permanent distortion of "the normal". I am particularly interested in the
> roles played by new technologies in the production, or distortion of "the
> normal" and related educational implications. So I do work that is
> multi-disciplinary and have recently tried video production as an
> alternative to academic writing-- a welcome change.
>
> I have a great Dane who 5 weeks ago gave birth to 9 just like her-- eight
> boys and one girl.
> So much for "gender equity"
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