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Men dancing together
By dogpossum On 1st March, 2013 · 2 Comments · In lindy hop and other dances, menz, same sex dancing
Lauren* hooked me up with this amazing clip
Yes, the first recorded film with sound featured two men dancing together.
*I only have Lauren’s email address to identify her, sorry – no linky.
I am so done.
By dogpossum On 15th February, 2013 · 8 Comments · In learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, same sex dancing, wimminz
Firstly:
I am so trashed. I am so wrecked. My poor, poor body. We raised > $2000 for the Taree Women and Children’s Refuge last night at One Billion (Jazz Dancers) Rising. It was an event run by a gang of women (with some male helpers) – which is really business as usual in [...]
Ladies first: sometimes we are triumphantly cycling to victory in our sports bras
By dogpossum On 8th February, 2013 · 9 Comments · In learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, teaching, wimminz
I’ve had a couple of emails about what was a fairly glib throwaway line about Nathan Bugh’s piece ‘Ladies First’ in my last blog post Gendering Dance Talk. This kind of surprised me, because I didn’t really think a lot about Bugh’s article in the first place, and I don’t have any sort of [...]
Gendering dance talk
By dogpossum On 7th February, 2013 · 4 Comments · In academia, learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, research, teaching, wimminz
My MA used lots of discourse analysis theory, which looks at the way language and words are used in written texts. I’ve also done some spoken discourse analysis work (which isn’t the same as linguistics, though there’s some crossover). I’ve been fascinated by the way spoken discourse analysis theory works in an online environment, where [...]
I’m going to wade into the discussion about bodies and lindy hop any second now. Because Parrot and Cat and Lindy Shopper and Aries have not only had a rowdy back-and-forth about bodies and clothing in dance, with high emotion and all caps (oh, that was probably me with the [...]
A Memo from Men Inc by Paul Chai.
Tag #men #masculinity #feminism #getshitdone
Feminism for me, can often be a profound discomfort with the way things are. The sort of niggling irritation that eventually just pours out as rage. Because shit is WRONGTOWN. I’m a white, middle class woman living in a developed city that’s wonderfully resourced, in a country that has free health care. Sure, [...]
Politeness, confrontation, civil liberty and rape culture
By dogpossum On 28th December, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, menz, wimminz
…another man…plonked himself at our table and started asking us detailed, personal questions, one at a time. We were tired, chewing in silence, not even talking among us, and this man’s insistent question-asking was not merely annoying, but excruciating. About 10 minutes into a conversation which consisted mainly of very polite silence on our side, [...]
Dealing with Problem Guys in dance classes
By dogpossum On 27th December, 2012 · 6 Comments · In learning, learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, teaching, wimminz
If you’ve ever done a lindy hop class ever, chances are you’ve come across a Problem Guy. Problem Guys are just that – problems. They interrupt the teachers. They talk while the teachers are talking. They instruct the follows in class (usually incorrectly) and they just. won’t. shut. up. They often move themselves up class [...]
