Category: Deep Cuts

• Fast Fashion: Patriot Act – apropos of our class discussion on The Tragedy of the Commons in 340
• I’m slowly compiling all the videos from the pop culture assignment in 347. See them here.
• Here’s an article on the domestic violence situation with Amber Heard and Johnny Depp we discussed in 347.
• The Makers documentary series on women’s’ rights in America through history.
• Loop on Disney+ – a short about a non-verbal autistic girl and a non-neurodiverse boy and how they communicate and see the world. Apropos of our discussion on neurodiversity in 378L and the ADA in 340.

Heal your brain:

• We Rate Dogs of 2019 – all the feels.
• Muppets being extra. Watch it with the subtitles on. Trust me.

We have collectively survived another semester! Yay us!

For my graduating students, I wish you a joyful graduation and transition into the next phase of life. I have cross posted a piece I wrote about these transitions for my personal site. As you might expect, since you know me, it is not profanity-free, but it comes from the heart. Feel free to read it here:

Unsolicited Advice for my Graduating Students

If you enjoyed or missed my painstakingly curated selection of cute/silly/stupid YouTube videos, you can access it here. Some of them I paid for and may not be viewable. I update it every semester so it will change over time.

I’m compiling a list of documentaries and influential films that I’ll post in the new year. Feel free to email me suggestions.

Thanks to all of you for a great semester!

• Check your straight party vote before you cast it because this meshugas has been happening.
• The friend of a friend warning about not having water for showering has turned out to be a hoax. Yay! Please recycle your bottles.
• Student-supplied article on racial bias in CPS removals in Austin.
• Article on the bi-racial/bi-cultural experience
• Article on the fallacies of binary sex – apropos of attempts to limit the definitions of sex

Podcasts:
Invisibilia: The Callout – Pretty much everything from Invisibilia is really good. This one is apropos to some of our discussions about callout hashtags like #bbqbecky and enforcing social norms.
Snap Judgement – Really interesting, well-produced stories about unexpected stuff.

Project Implicit
This website has a variety of cognitive tests that determine your implicit bias towards different groups of people. Implicit bias is non-rational and often unconscious. Understanding bias can help you be a better critical thinker and ally.

Trevor Noah interviews Tanara Burke, founder of the MeToo movement
MeToo was founded by Tanara Burke in 2006, specifically for people of color who are sexual assault survivors. She talks about the genesis of the movement.

Nannette: Hannah Gadsby
Ground breaking standup by a comedian from Tasmania who faced homophobia and violence in a country where it was illegal to be gay until the 90s. Trigger warning – she’s very funny but it gets super real sometimes as she struggles with the tension between humor and healing.

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Writing Hacks:
Effect vs. Affect – Grammar Girl
APA example paper
Lots of other stuff already on this website

This week’s edition of “I’m not crying you’re crying” (for Hamilton fans and broadway nerds)

Updates:

• My Monday office hours are canceled this week. The Wednesday hour at the GDC will happen as scheduled.
• 378L, 347, and 358 will NOT have a class meeting on Friday. I will be posting attendance assignments for Friday in the next 24 hours. Enjoy ACL/the OU game/studying/resting. Please check Canvas for your attendance assignment.

Interesting Reading/Viewing/Listening:

• When They Took My Son – Reveal Podcast on two stories of child separation. Several of you are doing your papers on this issue, so it’s worth a listen. Good, in-depth reporting.
• Definition and description of DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender) by a researcher at Stanford. A helping of logical fallacies with a side of cognitive distortion.
• About ACES: The Adverse Childhood Experiences Score is used as a predictor for a variety of emotional, physical, and social issues during childhood and adult development. This may be quite relevant to several of your papers and is a good search term as well.

Procrastination/Mental Health Moment:

• Lucas the Spider