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Artist Nell Wong among speakers at Radical Women conference
» Posted on August 6, 2008 09:53 AM. Link
On October 3-6, 2008 Radical Women is hosting The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism conference at The Women's Building in San Francisco. The conference features activists and scholars from Central America, Australia, China, and the U.S. The agenda includes panel...
Posted by MashaZavialova
What's so interesting about 'romance of color'?
» Posted on March 6, 2008 01:40 PM. Link
Romance novels—particularly those by women of color—are not just stereotyped tales about supermodel women and well-built men. At least, not always. According to Bowdoin English Professor Guy Mark Foster, these books can explore interesting issues of race, class, and ethnicity,...
Posted by qual0055
Educators and Parents: Find Children's Book Resources on VG
» Posted on February 29, 2008 01:57 PM. Link
Voices from the Gaps is not just about books for adults. We also have information for those who want to teach, or read, children’s literature written by women of color. Where to look? There are a number of children's-book reviews...
Posted by qual0055
Readers Can Vote for ‘Best of the Booker’
» Posted on February 21, 2008 02:31 PM. Link
To celebrate the Booker Prize’s 40th anniversary, you are invited to choose your favorite novel in a “Best of the Booker” competition. Nominees include all past Booker winners, including Indian novelist Arundahati Roy, who took the prize in 1997 for...
Posted by qual0055
Abu-Jaber at Spokane's 'Get Lit!'
» Posted on February 6, 2008 02:29 PM. Link
The Northwest's main festival for writers and readers is set for April 16-19 in Spokane, Wash. It promises to feature author presentations and readings, writing workshops and panels, author visits to schools throughout the region, youth poetry slams, and more....
Posted by MashaZavialova
Nominees for first-ever ‘Arabic Booker’ include Lebanon’s May Menassa
» Posted on February 6, 2008 01:45 PM. Link
Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Each of the finalists receives $10,000; the winner gets an additional $50,000. The shortlisted books were chosen from...
Posted by MashaZavialova
VG's Categories
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:30 PM. Link
What do you think about VG's categories for identifying the artists on the site? Are they useful for searching? What kinds of categories would you add to our lists? In particular, are there other "Axes of Affiliations" pertinent to the...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
First Entry
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
This is a test of the VG metablog. We're coming soon!...
Posted by DieterBohn
Almost ready to go live!
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Pretty much everything is up, just waiting on a few things and we have some more information to add to the permissions section. It's been a lot of work (a lot more than yours truly expected), but I think the...
Posted by DieterBohn
VG is Live!
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
The old site now points to the new VG. With the new site, adding content is a lot easier for us, so it will happen a lot more often. We're all pretty excited! Expect postings from the other VG staffers...
Posted by DieterBohn
Development chugging along
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Mostly I'm cleaning up the backend stuff now, making sure the templates from Movable Type are fairly transparent - i.e. its not totally obvious that many of the pages are built dynamically and come from a given template.
Posted by DieterBohn
Update on Development
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
We're still doing some testing. The target date for having everything up has slipped several times, mostly due to my own issues with the technology, but should be coming soon....
Posted by DieterBohn
Random Stuff.
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
We've had a couple of great meetings in the past week. First off we got some great undergraduate volunteers to help us out with getting our files organized and also doing some other work on transcription and editing and the...
Posted by DieterBohn
Archives and Work to be done
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
The more organized we get here at VG, the more we discover that there's so much more work than you might expect. But that's a good thing, it means we'll have regular updates and new content on a fairly constant...
Posted by DieterBohn
What's next for VG
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Just a quick post to let folks know what I'm working on to add to VG in the near future. Read on to see what's in the hopper and please comment with your own ideas!...
Posted by DieterBohn
Videos coming soon
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
The multimedia section of the site is still empty, but I've got fairly long video interviews of Rita Dove, Lan Samantha Chang, Lolita Hernandez, and Jessica Hagedorn that need to be made into clips and transcribed. It's coming soon. This...
Posted by DieterBohn
Under Duress
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
I'm new to VG, and just learning to work with the site content. Dieter's making me post to the blog. Lisa...
Posted by DieterBohn
We're testing the upload function
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Here are some webtrends info for our site. They're a little outdated, but still useful. Download file...
Posted by DieterBohn
favicon!
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
I added a favicon to the site. You'll see it in various places depending on which browser you're using. If you're using Firefox (which I personally recommend for a bevy of reasons, one of which it does probably the best...
Posted by DieterBohn
paula's never blogged before
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
I'm learning to do html, ha,ha....
Posted by PaulaRabinowitz
completely unrelated question
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Just wondering - forgive if this was discussed and discarded at a meeting I didn't attend - would it be possible to make it so that when one's cursor hovers over the banner at the top of the page (with...
Posted by RachelMordecai
Research Paper--VG's Criteria
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
MZ and LC: We are trying to understand who we are, what we are doing at VG (other than checking email and editing and posting pages), and what kind of entrance to the academy VG provides, and to define our...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Research Paper--Starting Out
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
The VG staff is collaborating on a paper we'll present at the 2005 MLA Convention on the panel "Theorizing Negotiation, Negotiating Theory." We invite users to join our conversation. Should we want to use your comments in our paper, we...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Research Paper-- Questions 1
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Some questions: PR pitched this presentation as "four women and a computer." In that case, would the computer stand for the academy? Or is it our and/or VG's users' tool for intervening in the academy from outside? Or does the...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
apologies
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
hi all - sorry i'm temporarily non-responsive. i'm taking care of a gravely ill dog, who's been my almost constant companion of 11 years. so i'm a little distracted - but i promise to be participatory soon....
Posted by RachelMordecai
VG Paper--4 personas
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
After some discussion and an offer by RM to be the "Gatekeeper/Border Patrol," here are the 4 personas MZ and LC suggest we use in the MLA presentation: 1. Gatekeeper/Border Patrol: focusing especially on issues of VG in the classroom...
Posted by MashaZavialova
LC's 'Secretary' Part
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Literary scholars, including Pamela Thurschwell and Christopher Keep, have written on the ideological impact of women’s large-scale entrance to the workforce as secretaries, in one form or another, in Britain and the U.S. around the turn of the twentieth century....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
RM's "gatekeeper" piece
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
VG pushes the traditional limits of the academy in several ways: it participates in the project of expanding the literary canon, it privileges the Internet as a site of scholarly production, and it is committed to publishing the work of...
Posted by RachelMordecai
MZ's part
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Rachel’s comment that a gatekeeper of the VG can renegotiate her/his own function as well as decide who gets admitted to the site suggests a higher degree of authority than an ordinary gate-keeper would have. My first idea was to...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
MLA Introduction
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Over the past two years, we have been working to redesign, update, and expand VG/Voices from the Gaps, a University of Minnesota website devoted to women writers of color, in terms of both the site's inclusiveness and its use in...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Upgrade to 3.2
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
We've recently upgraded our Movable Type installation to 3.2. So far everything seems to be working fairly well, though there are a few issues related to it being installed on a Windows server instead of Apache. I'm working on clearing...
Posted by DieterBohn
Voices from the Gaps as a Tool in the Negotiation Framework for Women
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
As a unique website filling the space between academic journalism and contemporary blog, Voices from the Gaps (VG) helps to navigate the literary spectrum for women writers and artists of color. However, while VG attempts to negotiate boundaries, it becomes...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
We've been working away
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
VG has seen a lot of new updates in the past couple of weeks! I'm also testing out adding tags to the entire system, so there may be a test post or three in the blog here in the coming...
Posted by DieterBohn
How's this for catch-up?
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
I worked with Jesse a few months ago bringing her up to speed on HTML. As promised, I'm publishing her practice HTML here on the blog. Cheers! edit: I'm testing tags out now...
Posted by DieterBohn
Sad News: Octavia Butler has died
» Posted on March 22, 2006 01:29 PM. Link
Octavia Butler has died. We have an artist biography here....
Posted by DieterBohn
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