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  • Today I had a very productive visit to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, after a quick stopover at Random U to watch their cheating cheaters take another exam. (Actually, it was a 4th year class, so there were far fewer cheaters and they were...
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  • I caught "porning news" and "pornflakes" in the comments on the article. Maybe CHCH can be fined for exposing innocent children to gratuitous punning as well.
  • A couple of professors in the US have taken heat for showing their students porn. One, a feminist, showed an anti-porn documentary that included illustrative clips of hardcore porn. But if you check out the article, you'll see that the complaint...
  • It started as a routine visit to the dentist. Joey Stewart, 32, was in his downtown dentist office Friday morning getting a temporary crown. While waiting for it to harden, his dentist flipped on the TV to CHCH. Suddenly, Stewart and his dentist...
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    • Mark A. McCutcheon April 23, 2012 - 4:14pm

      HA! I am having great difficulty resisting the temptation to make any one of several no doubt inappropriate comments that suggest themselves in response to this story.

    • sarah beth April 23, 2012 - 7:19pm

      I caught "porning news" and "pornflakes" in the comments on the article.

      Maybe CHCH can be fined for exposing innocent children to gratuitous punning as well.

  • So Lander's film that I linked to was the one that won best short film last year. I found some stills from '98bit, which is this year's nominee. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxwelll/sets/72157629699534855/with/6882620766/  Also, among...
  • Haha. Yeah, the detailed description of the exam is a Pandora's Box blog exclusive. You can watch the porn flicks, but first you have to hear about my day. Bwa ha ha! (Huh. Actually that's a really heteronormative format.) I probably won't...
  • The post is SFW if you don't play the videos, but the videos, trailers for and clips from the movies screened at the Feminist Porn Awards' film night, are a bit steamy.  I kept meaning to blog yesterday and this afternoon, but didn't get...
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    • sarah beth April 20, 2012 - 10:44am

      Haha. Yeah, the detailed description of the exam is a Pandora's Box blog exclusive. You can watch the porn flicks, but first you have to hear about my day. Bwa ha ha! (Huh. Actually that's a really heteronormative format.) I probably won't tell rabble all about my breakfast fruit, either, even though it was awesome.

      Now. Questions.

      1) As far as I could tell, none of the students who were caught cheating suffered any penalty. It might have been because the cheating was limited to the very beginning and the end of the exam, but their phones and notes were removed when they were caught sneaking them in, and their exams were taken when they wouldn't stop writing (I heard a guy whining to his professor about not being allowed to finish his sentence and the professor mentioned he had to be asked three times to stop), but I didn't see anyone getting thrown out with a zero. It was a big exam, so I could have missed it, and maybe there were stiffer penalties for some of the egregious cheaters who had been caught midway during previous exams that the other invigilators told me about, but I didn't see anything, besides a firm word from a professor, that would actually deter anyone from trying whatever they thought they could get away with.

      2) We discussed them separately, but the specific overlap in this case is that the indexing terms, which Alan had collected and printed off for me (AU doesn't subscribe to the database -- and I think I noted in my last blog post that the "Q" is conspicuously missing from "LGBT Life"), aren't sensitive enough for either a pornographic index or an index designed for people who are looking for materials for copyright-critical or copyright-breaking reuse. The difference is in how much detail is used to describe the porn. There's indexing language like "WOMEN'S sexuality; LESBIAN sexuality" and then there's tags like "interracial, doggy-style, butch/femme, black femme, white butch, mature butch, strap-on, purple dildo, blue image," which would give a much clearer picture of the indexed content, suitable for a wider set of purposes. This also picks up on a difference between a cataloguing strategy designed for print books, and tagging conventions designed for the web. 

      3) On the panel, both N Maxwell Lander, whose film was most "artsy," and Erika Lust were asked about the "difference" between art and pornography. Lander's answer, which gets at a sentiment we've touched on a few times, that there's a poverty of language for describing sexuality, was that they (I didn't catch their gender, will have to double-check the program) can't really say what's pornographic, so would have a difficult time saying what's not pornographic. Lust's answer was about making films that "eroticize" porn; i.e., if porn is for showing sex, eroticizing porn is about making it about the characters who are having sex.

      Both of these answers express nice sentiments (I have a couple of well-spoken quotes from this part of the panel, but, while Angel's and Nenna's films were better suited to my angle for the article, I want to finish writing it and decide for sure what I'm not using before I put any direct quotes on the web), and they speak to things that are lacking in porn and how we 'read' porn, but I think I would have liked to hear them say "oh yeah, this is straight-up porn. Whatever technical skills I bring to the production process, my artfully edited gaze at such and such actor's breasts is exactly as 'perverted' as Buck's very open and 'unartistic' gaze at that dude's crotch." But nobody said that. Angel had some choice statements on the stigma of "porn" -- being related to the actual word, that is -- so maybe the potential for legitimation as "erotica" or "art" could be drawn on as a kind of survival tactic by the artists. Or maybe feminist porn wants into the art world. I don't know. But it's something they talked about. 

    • sarah beth April 20, 2012 - 12:41pm

      So Lander's film that I linked to was the one that won best short film last year. I found some stills from '98bit, which is this year's nominee. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxwelll/sets/72157629699534855/with/6882620766/ 

      Also, among what is quickly becoming a very strange set of thoughts and experiences as a graduate student: sitting in a theatre, watching porn with 200 or so other people, and thinking "oh! I bet my research supervisor would like this one!" (I was thinking of its late-90s rave nostalgia.)

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  • Unfortunately, their collection policy page says their policy is under development and refers readers to "the Report on Archives' Collection Policies Regarding Oral History Tapes" -- but I haven't been able to figure out who the document might be...
  • I'm bookmarking this because 1) seeing the name of the museum in a hilarious anti-racist blog was enough to stop me in my tracks, and 2) despite very different contexts, I think there are some parallels between this collection and the collections...
  • Raphael's recommendation of an illuminating text to accompany Derrida's Archive Fever. :)
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  • I put a lot of extra work into building relationships beyond the required ones for just getting a degree or taking a research course, but those relationships do come in very handy when I need access to a community (and material support for research)...
  • This is the framework I'm planning to use to make the data I collect in spreadsheets accessible to other researchers. It's a lot friendlier than just uploading the documents somewhere and letting folks ctrl-f (and more accessible, since I can...
  • The disappearances and murders of women on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside were a consequence of the displacement documented by Becki Ross, Jamie Lee Hamilton, and others in the West End Sex Work History Project.  This is also an accurate...
  • I am so excited about this.    But it falls before the deadline for the GSRF and the notice is too short for the Access to Research Tools award. So the question is: how do I get AU to foot the bill for it as a research trip?
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    • sarah beth April 10, 2012 - 4:04pm

      I put a lot of extra work into building relationships beyond the required ones for just getting a degree or taking a research course, but those relationships do come in very handy when I need access to a community (and material support for research) beyond AU.

      I may have found my workaround. My editor at a lefty news outlet is going to try to get me free tickets and a story assignment to cover travel costs. It's not as convenient as it would be to live in a magical world where AU covers all my research costs, no questions asked or deadlines imposed, but it doesn't involve hours of work proposing things, and I might not have to have to pay for it myself. 

  • sarah beth commented on the blog How to download a Youtube video? April 7, 2012 - 2:33pm
    It's been awhile since I used Firefox, but Flashgot was once a very useful extension for downloading Youtube videos: http://flashgot.net/. There's relatively-recent instructions here. If you're using Chrome, this looks like a similar...
  • Thanks, Josh! Of course I'm curious to hear about all five, but I'll let you decide whether you have the time and energy to describe all of them just for the sake of my curiosity.  In your comment on my grant proposal, you mentioned some ideas...
  • I was talking to [Reluctantly Redacted Name] today, and the vocabulary issue got even more complicated. She told me she had found some really hot queer porn (NSFW) by Googling "ethical porn." It's also a pretty practical search term, though in...
  • Well, I figured, should anyone ever complain, it will be a lot easier to argue that the anti-porn policy interferes with necessary research communication if I don't inadvertently get anyone fired when they click on innocuous-sounding links from the...