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Wednesday 23 May 2012

An Interview with Mara Keisling

The complete set of videos and resources is at http://conversations.psu.edu/episodes/mara_keisling_
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousFriday, May 25, 2012 9:59:00 am

    re: The video interview with Mara Keisling on "The T Word'" on the Penn State website:

    "Now, this transfunction..."

    [a student's hand goes up]

    "Yes?"

    "Why are you calling this a 'transfunction'? Isn't this an exception handler?"

    "Well, yes, it is; but we're trying to keep it simple for policymakers: so procedure calls, forks, inline code, threads, processes, interrupt-time upcalls, virtual machines, what have you: we now just call them 'transfunctions'."

    "Ah."
    ...

    To me, the "transgender blanket" is a semantic bog... ultimately engendering more fog than clarity of understanding, reducing sets of complex and not-quite-commensurate gender variant behaviors to a meme that doesn't quite qualify as a "sound byte"... merely... a "sound bit".

    Sincerely,
    - bonzie anne

    PS: I'll limit further comment on this topic to: *sigh*

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  2. AnonymousMonday, July 02, 2012 4:31:00 am

    could you please change the way you set up posts like this, where they automatically start playing

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  3. Zoe BrainMonday, July 02, 2012 6:20:00 pm

    I tried everything I could to prevent the autoplay.

    Now I commented out the Flash and inserted a Youtube link instead.

    My apologies, I took too long to give up.

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  4. AnonymousMonday, July 23, 2012 9:38:00 am

    Congrats on your transition, Zoe. I have recently come out of stealth bliss to take on a role as an activist for other trans women. I see you have many the same enemies I do: brennan et al., comodaldragon, and some of the wbt radfem sycophants. As another scientist and trans woman, I hope we can work together in the future to advance our mutual causes. Thank you for being such a strong voice thus far! ;)

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