I can’t stop thinking of my name written in all caps on the whiteboard in the main transfusion room of the cancer center. HITT. my name, her name. it’s at the top of the whiteboard because I’m the first person posted up in one of the many giant overstuffed recliners placed around the room. I’m…… Continue reading sickness & springtime
This post (maybe like all my posts) is a mix of things: personal history, reading summary, analytical musings of cancer and a society that perpetuates assumptions about women’s bodies. Yesterday, I picked up Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals for the first time, and I couldn’t put it down until I was finished. I was surprised…… Continue reading The Cancer Journals
“[T]he problem of constituting an effective deliberative democracy for the 21st CE, particularly in an increasingly multicultural society, will require sustained attention to the range of ways in which rhetoric constitutes and is implicated in the process of public decision making.” (249) This week, our readings focused on rhetoric, reason, and public morality. Goodnight jumpstarts…… Continue reading Technology and Deliberative Democracy
Accessing Rhetoric 