"Shady Grove, My Little Love..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

To-day's funtimes project: try to find a synonym for "squicky" for an academic paper.*

(On the plus side, I've decided the topics for my two big research papers of the semester: for Cultural Anthropology I am going to write about different cultures' approaches to mental illness and how emotions are described by different cultures. For Women's Lives in Medieval Europe I am going to write about religious women whose relationship with God was sexual. I am excited! It's going to be cool. Now I just have to figure out which female historian I will write about for my historiographical report.)

*it's a paper about Australian colonialism in New Guinea. Squick squick squick.

Comments

[erinpuff]

Those sound like awesome papers! I don't know what I'm doing for any of mine yet, but for my music & religion class, I'm leaning toward doing something about Christian music as lefty resistance in the Salvadoran Civil War.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

My history professor pretty much straight out said we have to know our topics by Tuesday's class, so. But--oooooh. That is cool too!

[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

Well, you could define it within the text, and mention that it's a term often used in informal anti-oppression discourse? Maybe?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I went with "disturbing". >_>

[zero_pixel_count]

...I was about to suggest 'distasteful' and 'disturbing' :D

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Disturbing felt best. My notes were unhelpful, since they mainly consisted on me writing "YOU UTTER FUCKS" in between actual comments on the film.

[zero_pixel_count]

"Dear professor such-and-such, we are sorry quite proud to inform you that Soujin cannot write this essay as she is too busy exploding with righteous anger caused by the source materiel, &etc &etc..."

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I seriously kind of was. We were listening to interviews with these guys who had basically kind of traipsed in and then gone "WHAT U MEEN U NOT WANTS US HEER LET US CIVILISE U."

[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

That works! You could swap in 'distressing' a few times, maybe. Get the tonal shifts across a little.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Good idea.

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

Ooooh your papers sound so cool! (will you post them at all?)

Which female historians do you have to choose from?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I /love/ my classes this semester. >_> (! not unless you want to see them.)

I don't know yet. I need to check the book out from the library.

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

(! they sound so interesting!)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(if you want me to, I will post them. O_o)

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

(yay!)

also, look. ^__^

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

This makes me sososososo happy, thank you for linking me.

[nowgoesquickly.livejournal.com]

Can I read both of those papers when they're done? Both topics sound fascinating.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Dude. You can, if you really want to.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Repellent, abhorrent, repugnant, sickening?

<33 Busy busy Soujinbee.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I ended up using disturbing a lot.

I am! omg.

[allofthewords.livejournal.com]

*waves hi*

--you don't actually know me but I am a friend-of-a-friend through bewareofitalics who happened upon this post, and I just had to tell you that "religious women whose relationship with God was sexual" is seriously one of the most interesting things we covered in my own medieval history classes. Do you have any book recommendations, etc., at this point?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

At this point? No. Just people. Catherine of Sienna and Theresa de Avila spring immediately to mind!