WITNESS ME, part 4

In my hero's boast, I laid out everything that I have to do from now until the end of the year.

One of the most difficult things I had on my list was managing my new career situation-- completing the two college courses I'd been hired to teach. This was something entirely new for me, and a positive direction for me to move in professionally, but the amount of work and need to adapt was challenging for me. I worked very hard at it, balancing it with all my other fairly intense committments, trying to learn how to be a good professor.

I have officially submitted grades for both those classes. I believe I have now fulfilled all responsibilities for the courses, to the satisfaction of all involved.

I have new classes to prepare for coming up. I have to get my syllabi in order over the next two weeks, not something I particularly want to worry about while in tech for two plays, but there's nothing for it. Still, I managed it once, so I guess I can manage it again.

WITNESS ME.

New post on Mrshawking.com -- "The power of the anger of women"

New post on Mrshawking.com!

"The power of the anger of women"

As big a fan of the superhero genre as I am, there’s a common trope in it that’s always gotten on my nerves. How often do you see a female character get angry about something, only to have that anger swept aside because the usually male hero’s efforts to save the world make it impossible for her to stay mad?

It’s something that’s bothered me a long time, as it’s an indication of a larger cultural pressure for women never to get angry about anything— to only have pleasant feelings that are comfortable for those around them, to focus on making others feel better. But our plays are meant to stand in direction contradiction to that, because the character of Mrs. Hawking is ALL ABOUT anger.



Read the rest of the entry on Mrshawking.com!