Today, I attended the Women, Action & the Media Conference that is put on by the Center for New Words in Boston. Yes, those are superfluous exclamation points in my blog title. I find\u00a0unnecessary\u00a0punctuation to be a viable means of personal expression. You wanna fight about it? ! ? . \u00bf \u00a1<\/p>\n
Going through the material that they gave us and thinking about what sessions I want to go to, I realized that I don’t really think about this sort of stuff all that often. And by “this stuff,” I mean the feminist perspective, the role of women in media, that sort of thing. I’m not sure why, I used to think about it all of the time. Somewhere along the way, some sort of switch got flipped in my brain and I just didn’t focus on that perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Working in \u00a0male-dominated fields (computer science, then IT, then A\/V), it has probably been a bit of a self-preservation method. If you start asking “What Would Bella Abzug Do?” all the time, eventually your male coworkers start to tune you out. If you’re lucky. I much prefer silence to open mocking. But perhaps that’s just personal preference.<\/p>\n
To be honest, that’s all horribly unfair to the majority of my coworkers who are lovely people and who I really should feel comfortable talking to about this sort of thing.<\/p>\n
I’m looking forward to learning a lot this weekend. I’m also looking forward to (hopefully) reawakening that little part of my brain that thinks critically about women’s issues and the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And if I manage to sell a few CDs? Well that’s just icing on the cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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