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Friends Kill Joy Together

My amazing colleague made me this awesome feminist needlepoint:

Needlepoint that reads "Friends Kill Joy Together"

It references Sara Ahmed’s concept of the feminist killjoy, which you can read more about on her blog or in her book, Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press, 2017). In short, the feminist killjoy kills joy by refusing to remain silent about sexism, racism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression, thereby interrupting the happiness of others, when that happiness is contigent upon not acknowledging these systems of oppression.

Crossing Disciplines with the CMBC Certificate Program

In this short clip (filmed in the summer of 2013), I share my experience with the graduate certificate program offered by Emory’s Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. The Center’s mission is “to foster inquiry, research, and teaching from multiple explanatory perspectives concerning issues and phenomena associated with mind, brain, and culture and their relations.”