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No Child Left Behind Waivers and the Future of U.S. Education

10/3/11 9:00am by cynematic
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Earle Brown Elementary School in Minnesota

Three main variables in education policy -- all recently in flux and one still in need of details -- will affect how the nation's neighborhood schools are run within the next several months. President Obama has framed investment in education as having the potential to power a renaissance in American cultural and technological pre-eminence -- or, if we miss this opportunity, to toss aside decades of innovation as other nations out-achieve us.  Read more >

2010 Election: Ballot Initiative Results -- Marijuana, Personhood, Healthcare & More

11/2/10 1:41am by cynematic
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Prop 19 Cannabis sign

Hot ballot initiatives from around the country that we'll be tracking for you:  Read more >

2010 Election: California Governor (Whitman vs. Brown)

11/2/10 1:37am by cynematic
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BlogHer's been covering the California gubernatorial race between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown from both sides of the aisle. What, if anything, does this race have to tell us about women CEOs making the leap from business to public life? What about Whitman's campaign and her connection, or lack thereof, to women voters? We'll keep you posted:  Read more >

CA Women's Conference, Awkward But Good: Men on Work/Life Balance

10/28/10 11:58am by cynematic
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Among the 15,000 women at Maria Shriver's The Women's Conference, "Men Who Get It" were featured in their own roundtable hosted by news anchor Brian Williams. It may have been the first time four high-powered men awkwardly talked work-life issues while live-streamed over the internet. Williams self-consciously cracked, "Spanx are for when dad comes home at night"; missing were the usual complaints about menstrual pain.  Read more >

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Full Name
cynematic
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October 2007
About Me: 

I'm a writer-filmmaker and recovering academic.

I've been active in Asian Pacific American issues and culture since college; currently I'm on the board of directors of the Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE), which works to diversify Hollywood in all forms of entertainment media, even the web. My academic specializations were (not necessarily in order of importance): 19th and 20th century American literature, comparative multi-ethnic literature, APA literature and film, and women of color feminisms. I hold a PhD in English and an MA in creative writing from UC Berkeley. I've taught classes or guest-lectured at Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, San Francisco State, RISD, UC Irvine, and UC Riverside.

You can find my writing here

  • my own personal blog, P i l l o w b o o k
  • MOMocrats, the amazingly brilliant and funny group of bon vivants/political progressives who let me run with the women who run with wolves
  • my documentary film-in-progress (and accompanying non-fiction book-in-progress), WORLD ON A STRING
If asked to say which was hardest, giving birth, filing a dissertation, or funding and finishing a documentary film, I'd have to say the film. Nine months' gestation is a cakewalk compared to years of sitting on that egg, waiting for it to hatch!
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