Women Writers and Banned Books–Reflections from the Brooklyn Book Festival

Posted by on Oct 10, 2013 in Technology Diary | One Comment

“Lois Lowry is a WOMAN!?” This surprised exclamation came from my best friend, looking at a bookmark I have tacked up on my wall from this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. And her surprise came as no surprise to me.     What do these Y.A. authors have in common? S.E. Hinton K.A. Applegate J.K. Rowling

Feminism and Health in The Hunger Games

Posted by on Oct 2, 2013 in Reading Response | No Comments
Feminism and Health in The Hunger Games

This post originally appeared on my blog Writing Not Raging about a year ago. I was inspired to write this post by a chapter in  Cyberfeminism 2.0 – “Beyond Democratization and Subversion: Rethinking Feminist Analytical Approaches to Girls’ Cultural Production on the Internet” by Rosalind Sibielski. Sibielski, talking specifically about the production of fan videos by […]

Insulin Pumps: Designed by men, for men?

Posted by on Sep 15, 2013 in Technology Diary | No Comments

Though my insulin pump is not a common piece of technology, for me it’s an integral part of my day-to-day life and the first thing that comes to mind for me when I think of technology (after the usual suspects of computers, smartphones, TVs etc.). What’s an insulin pump? For those of you who don’t […]

Revisiting “Writing Not Raging”

Posted by on Sep 8, 2013 in Introductions | One Comment

Hi everyone! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Kaitlyn O’Hagan, and I just graduated from Macaulay @ Hunter in May, where I studied history and public policy. I was super bummed that I would no longer be a student when this course was being offered, but excited to take it up as […]