"deconstructing the self"

not really ever here

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:12:04 GMT

I am not really ever here and it occurs to me that I should give people a forwarding address (or you know online equivalent)..

Email: drunkontheory@gmail.com

Twitter: drunkontheory

away from the office

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:39:47 GMT

Bruce will be away from the office (AKA - the internet) until Nov. 16th. If you need reach him send an email and he will get back to you as soon as possible. drunkontheory@gmail.com

A Quote I really love!

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:30:22 GMT

Power is scary. With it comes responsibility. As with leadership, if you don't acknowledge that power is necessary then you won't do anything about re-imagining it. I think leftists have gotten very comfortable being critics of power. Criticism on the road to power may be useful, but criticism by itself, in our day and age, is actually an attendant to dominant power. "Look," the powers that be argue, "we have critics, that means you have freedom and democracy, right?" Criticism, by itself, is just self-serving politics: it makes the critic feel better about their non-compliance but changes nothing. Therefore I'm interested in moving past criticism and really thinking about what is necessary to win power. For without power you can't change things. And I'm in this game to change the world, not just comment about how bad it all is.

I, Robot?

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:15:07 GMT

In what appears to be undeniably an uprising of the machines, my iPhone and iMac have conspired to totally erase my address book. Please take a minute to send me whatever contact information you would like me to have of yours to my gmail address, drunkontheory@gmail.com

Thanks,

Bruce

catching up and odds and ends and going to Austin

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:23:40 GMT

So I am over the flu and what I have come to believe was a sinus infection that seemed to develop after I spent an entire night dealing with the explosion of a sprinkler in one of my residence halls. I am also starting to feel like I am keeping my head above ground with my workload. Life is starting to feel a little bit more under control.

Some brief updates:

1. Things with TYFA are going remarkably well. I am feeling more engaged and invested in the work and Shannon has really gotten to a place where she doesn't push me to contribute in any particular way but instead has taken to letting me set my own pace and my own focus. This is resulting, as it always does with me in stronger participation overall. Toni Severance is coming on board to focus on development. I couldn't be happier that she is getting more involved and think it will be good for her, me and the organization. For those of you who don't know she is the queer woman who was my assistant in my job as diversity coordinator/community manager at Antioch College and she is truly kick ass. Plus, she is a lot of fun.

2. School work is interesting for me right now but instead of talking about my frustrations let me talk for a minute about some of the things that I am excited about. I think I am producing some really decent stuff and enjoying my reading a lot. I am particularly enjoying reading autobiographical theory right now so that is cool. I just finished a presentation earlier today at the LSU Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Student Conference about Post-Colonial theories and partners of transgender people. It was really well received and Anna Louise Keating, who was the keynote gave me some really interesting feedback. It looks like I am going to be spending some time in the Gloria Anzaldua archives in Austin Texas soon to look at some of her unpublished manuscripts that dealt directly with transgender people.

3. Finally, after next week I have some exciting things happening. Spring break! Then I will be in New York for the American Educational Researchers Association Meeting for a full week. Then, I will be on a cruise with my mom for week and then I will have to come back an focus on finishing up school.

So if anyone lives in Austin or in New York say hi and get coffee with me when I am there.

Hillary Clinton and Britney Spears

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:00:09 GMT

I just posted about Hillary and Britney over on www.bilerico.com. Everyone should check it out.

Overwhelmed!

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:39:50 GMT

The term is really just getting started this weekend and I am feeling overwhelmed and over-extended already. I am sure that I will get through it but any positive energy that anyone wants to send my way they should.

and I worry about these things...

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:45:11 GMT

86%

Looking for payday loan?

Because Wes worries about these things....

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:43:22 GMT

53%

Want to be a xray technician?

A Poem a student wrote about me when I was Diversity Coordinator at Antioch

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:05:15 GMT

Bruce Parker

A voice above the chatter
clean-cut business style crisp against the ruffled casual majority
Speaking the concerns of all-
the Social emergency broadcast system
This is NOT a test...
this is the here, the now.
The voice of our conscience commanding us to FIGHT.

Understanding different perspectives
doesn't mean
you can't have your own point of view

Giving out the Algo awards, don't you see
It takes one to know one-
Bruce, you are Algo

transgender day or remembrance

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:57:47 GMT

I posted on bilerico about transgender day of remembrance. check it out?

http://www.bilerico.com/2007/11/three_stories_about_antitransgender_rela.php

Suicide of a Friend

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:31:44 GMT

http://www.bilerico.com/2007/10/a_death_in_the_family.php

My thoughts on ENDA

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:16:29 GMT

I posted my thoughts on the ENDA Breakdown from the past week over on bilerico. If you check it out you should comment.

http://www.bilerico.com/2007/10/throwing_the_baby_out_with_the_bath_wate.php

America Needs to Take a Stand Against Homosexuality?

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:17:51 GMT

So there is this bigoted article has me pissed off. Read my response on bilerico here.

nerd quiz

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:54:08 GMT

Bilerico Post Today

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:03:45 GMT

Because I am wanting to up my number of comments let me direct folks to my bilerico post today and ask you to consider commenting if you have anything to say about my post or the issues it was around. :)

Rent Character

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:56:15 GMT

What Rent Character are you?

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My apartment

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:36:40 GMT

So the other update that seems necessary is the joy of dorm apartment. Although, living in a building where I am in charge of 540 college freshmen is probably not exactly the same thing as living by myself it is really nice to have a lot of privacy. The students don’t officially move in until the 19th of August. Until then it is a little like living in a ghost house. I am enjoying the quiet and am equally confident I will enjoy the liveliness once the term gets started. The students are already starting to make their selves known via facebook. I am sure the term will be a blast.

One of the coolest things about my apartment is the air conditioning that I don’t have to pay for. I am keeping it set at about 68 or 70 pretty consistently. It is nice to be cool in the Louisiana heat and to be able to sleep under my down comforter at night. Although down comforters are pretty consistently better when shared life goes on. The apartment is a pretty good-sized living room that I will probably not use very frequently. I small tiny kitchen – that is even smaller than my kitchen in my last apartment. The bedroom is huge compared to what I expected and that bathroom isn’t too bad. The walls are cement and the bedroom has two large frame windows that look out over the lake. The view is amazing during the day and at night. It is hard for me to keep the blinds closed at all. Take a look in the pictures over on my myspace - www.myspace.com/culturequeerboi - and you will see a quick snapshot of it.

First Night in New Orleans

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:44:29 GMT

Last night, I went along with Sybil (Haitian Graduate Student friend from Purdue who came to LSU as well), Nina (My advisor), and Molly (LSU graduate who teaches at Teacher’s College in New York) to a White Satin arts festival in New Orleans. The drive from Baton Rouge to New Orleans is really pretty and I can’t help but think about Hurricane Katrina and the experiences of the folks trying to get out of the city. The drive takes only about an hour so we had some spirited conversation about the academy and New Orleans. Finding parking was not difficult.
We were soon enough lost in masses of white linen and straw hat wearing Southerners. We all got cocktails. Nina and I both got White Cosmopolitans. Although, I was not dressed for the occasion I felt fabulously Southern walking through the art galleries. It is easy to forget in throngs of white affluent and middle class New Orleanians that the destruction of Katrina still lingers for many of the black and white working class residents years after the storm. The racial and class divisions are so built into the everyday way that both Baton Rouge and New Orleans work that it is easy to lose yourself in the air of aristocracy that the white folks put off down here.
The art was pretty diverse. Two particular galleries are probably worth mentioning. The first had modern art that also included collages and the artist was a very tall very handsome forty something year old man who spent a lot of time talking with Molly and I about his art and his life. We each thought he was flirting with the other and we both thought that was great. Eventually, with deep blue eyes and a soft spoken voice he mentioned his wife who lives in Washington D.C. while he lives in Florida. Deflated but entertained both Molly and I moved on and finished that gallery up laughing. The other noteworthy gallery is called the River Gallery. It was a little bit off the main street that the other galleries so it wasn’t as crowded. The art was nice but not super impressive but the space was huge and totally airy. The ceilings were high and lofted, columns were spread throughout the room, and the walls were still brick. It was the type of place I would love to eventually live in if I were to stay in Louisiana.
After we finally got tired of walking around in the masses of people we turned toward walking around the rest of New Orleans. People say that if you were familiar with the city prior to Katrina you can tell the difference in the energy and the people. Having only been one time at 19 for Mardi Gras and spending a significant amount of that time drunk doesn’t really give me much of a comparison. I did notice that the population was a lot of white folks, which is a big change apparently from the way New Orleans was before. Racial issues here are so much more present and sometimes so solid you can almost reach out and touch them. The walk was nice it gave Sybil and I some time to reflect on the week that we have been here and what our hopes/fears are for the future. It was good to visit with her and to interact with Nina in a different environment.
Eventually, we walked along Bourbon Street where all the bars and drinking occurs. It was a lot of fun. The energy was contagious and I found myself wanting to be there with old friends who are more partiers than me. We kept walking and I noticed that sex was so present and totally on display in a way that I think would potentially make me feel uncomfortable to be in that environment with Nina or other folks who are supposed to be my supervisors. The night ended with us with us sitting at a little coffee shop having expresso and fried French donuts and talking about the day.

my tarot card

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:46:31 GMT

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

What Tarot Card are You?
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Research Says...

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:15:45 GMT

I teach in the college of education at Purdue University. Why on earth when research has proven time and time again that students don't learn well with early classes do they continue to schedule morning sessions. These are times that I miss Antioch for sure. When it was a struggle to get up in time to be in class by 1:30. Oh well....

I worked on my syllabi last night and figured out some ways to shrink the number of friday morning course sessions. Why you ask? Well simply put, this sucks. My students will be grateful. I hope they are grateful enough to actually read and come to class prepared on the days that we have class. If all goes well and they are really nice today. I am going to cancel one more of the classes. It is really for the best that Carrie is working with me on this course because if it wasn't for her I probably wouldn't have class at all. Thanks Carrie if you are reading this!!!

Okay anyway...

So this term is going to be crazy... In addition to teaching two sections of multicultural education and one special section of multicultural education that is focused on Global Issues and Democractic Education (with Sybil), I was silly enough to agree to teach a memoir writing class to around ten girls and one boy that I have had before. This course is one of the two most rewarding things that I have going on however. Also, I am teaching an independent study to Carrie and Ben about Social and Cultural Theory. This is also going to prove to be totally rewarding. However, the fact that I am teaching five courses and really have five distinct preps and am only getting paid for two of them is a little disappointing. Matt thinks it is a silly thing to be doing. I can't help but think... This is just how we roll...

In addition to my teaching load - I am taking Reconceptualized Curriculum with Erik (my advisor) - this class is going to be really interesting... Multicultural Education with Adam (my undergrad advisor) - he is always an amazing teacher.... Ethnographic Expressions with a new woman and I am totally enamored with her work and her energy - time will of course tell.... I am still carrying around a registration sheet for a directed reading with Erik that should be geared toward helping me complete my thesis. Now if I just knew what my thesis was going to be about... I am considering borrowing liberally from Nick. I am pretty confident it will either be about trans stuff or about democratic education.

Also, I am continuing my activism involvement. Regardless of how overwhelming it all seems. Again this is just how we roll.

Graduate School Search Kicking Off

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:02:27 GMT

Well, I am officially starting out my search for post-purdue and post-masters graduate programs. These are the programs that are currently on the list... Feel free to make suggestions...

Curriculum Studies
Lousiana State University
GRE SCORE - 1000 on verbal and qualiti
Application Deadline May 15
Deadline for funding April 1

Gender Studies
Indiana University
Application Deadline Jan 2
Deadline for funding is Feb 1

American Studies
New York University
Application Deadline Dec 15

Curriculum Studies
Purdue University
Rolling Admission
Deadline for Funding - Feb.

Social Work and Social Science
University of Michigan
Application Deadline Dec. 15

Race, Gender and Social Justice
American University
Application Deadline Dec. 15

Dual Masters of Arts in Philanthropic Studies and and master of Public Affairs in Nonprofit Management
IUPUI
Application Deadline Feb. 1

Pretty much a good description of me....

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:10:27 GMT

You Have a Sanguine Temperament

You are an optimistic person who is easily content.
You enjoy casual, light tasks - never wanting to delve too deep into anything.
A bit fickle, it's easy for you to change plans or paths when presented with something better.

You enjoy all of the great things life has to offer - food, friends, and fun.
A great talker, you can keep the conversation going for hours.
You are optimistic and sure of your success. If you fail, you don't worry about it too much.

At your worst, you are vain. You are obsessed with your own attractiveness.
A horrible flirt, you tend to jump into love affairs and relationship drama easily.
You're very jealous - which just magnifies the craziness around you.

What Temperment Are You?

another day....more work

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:10:53 GMT

Last night was my final night in tony's apartment. I have grown to adore his cat, "the jack nasty." This week has convinced me of two things...1. I want to live by myself and 2. I think I would do well to have a cat.

Today, my student Carrie and her boyfriend Dave (a future student) came down and we talked through alot of business that we have to take care off. Carrie and I are going to work on a piece together that deals in feminism and curriculum studies. Then she and Dave helped me talk through the upper level EDCI 490 class that I am teaching this fall and then possibly the most exciting development of the day is that Carrie and Dave are going to help me out with my friday morning multicultural education class. Carrie is going to be a more tradiational teaching assistant and Dave is going to lead the political project part of the class. Exciting, Exciting, Exciting news all around. I think there is some potential that they are going to focus on getting gender identity added to Purdue's anti-discrimination statement. That would be great news and make me proud of them. I am confident something good will come of it

Well, I should do some email organizatoin stuff and odds and ends and then eventually I end up packing at Tony's to go back to Thom's house.

Overwhelmed and Tired!

tired...

drunkontheory@gmail.com — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:00:46 GMT

Around a year and eight months ago pre-big breakup... I went to the Illinois Association for College Admissions Counselor training retreat because I was on the path to being an admissions counselor at Antioch College. It was an okay training. Most notably was this middle aged white woman with really big curly hair. She was wearing a power suit. Her training session was the first and she was supposed to get us motivated. She worked as a part time admissions counselor and was a single mother. In a fifteen year period she went from that position to being the vice-president at a small liberal arts college for enrollment management. Her life was remarkable and she had worked hard to make it without alot of opportunities. She said to things that stuck with me. The first was, "you always give a project to the person in your office who seems busiest because they will probably be the most likely to get it finished." and most profoundly, when this girl laid her head down and dozed off during her talk - the speaker walked up in front of her and slammed her hands down on the table yelling, "what's your problem?" The girl bolted upright and said, "I am tired." The speaker replied, "Tired? Tired? Girl, I have been TIRED since fourth grade."

Yea, I feel like I have been tired since the fourth grade. Today, I officially become an employee of INTRAA. I am now their advocacy coordinator. I designed the position and get paid very minimally but it is an exciting opportunity. Tonight, I spent a significant amount of time trying to organize my email inbox and my desktop to get prepared for the massive amount of work that I have coming my way. I have no idea why but this job fits perfectly with my issues about wanting to save the world.

My academic work has been suffering but I promised myself that monday I would ramp that up too. My social life has been taking a little too much time and that has to change.

Okay well, I am tired so I am going to bed. Do something to make me feel better.

Go to www.intraa.org and join the website as a member. In your description of why you want to join say you learned about the site from my profile.