Category: The Queer Parallax of Affect
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How To
What we do as teachers, especially those of us in higher education, is usually invisible. The curricular development and day-to-day planning, among other things, seem to just happen. Sometimes it feels like we’re lip synching for our lives at the front of the classroom, the lyrics lying dormant inside our brains until we’re expected to…
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Why Love?
Here’s how I found out I harbored a very unpopular opinion. I was once asked to participate in a teaching workshop during graduate school. I was supposed to share my expertise after having taught many, many times. So there I was sitting with three (I think) other co-presenters talking to a group of graduate students…
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The Queer Parallax of Affect
Or, Feeling and Meaning Across Cultures. Young Royals broke my heart–and stitched it back up again. Many people seem to be healed, rehabilitated by their experience with Heated Rivalry. That happened to me with Young Royals. Because it’s a Swedish show, it wasn’t just the love story that got me but also the different way…
Javier Jiménez Westerman, PhD 