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  1. 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 >

  2. 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 >

  3. 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 >

  4. 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 >

  5. BREAKING: At The California Women's Conference -- Stick a Fork In Meg Whitman (Done)?

    10/26/10 4:49pm by cynematic
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    Meg Whitman

    What started off as a lightweight chat among seasoned politicos (current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and gubernatorial candidates Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown) at the Women's Conference in Long Beach developed unexpected heat when Matt Lauer asked Whitman and Brown if they'd remove all negative ads from the airwaves -- and the crowd jeered Whitman.  Read more >

  6. Final Brown-Whitman Gubernatorial Debate: Did We Learn Anything New?

    10/13/10 12:36pm by cynematic
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    California governor candidate Jerry Brown

    Partisans for each will tell you Brown or Whitman "won" last night's third and final debate between the California gubernatorial candidates. (There's a good summary of the debate plus video at the LA Times.) But I look at it this way: did we learn anything new about the candidates in their most heated and personal exchange yet?  Read more >

  7. Community College Summit: the Answer to Unemployment Frustration?

    10/5/10 5:16pm by cynematic
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    Dr. Jill Biden speaks at the Community College Summit

    Today, Dr. Jill Biden, Vice Presidential First Lady, and President Obama hosted the White House Summit on Community College to highlight the importance of two-year colleges as a stepping stone to a college degree and a way for mid-career adults to retool or retrain.  Read more >

  8. Small Business Jobs Act: What Businesses and Bloggers Need to Know

    9/28/10 5:08pm by cynematic
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    President Obama

    If, like me, you're a sole proprietor or otherwise one-woman shop whose business is either based in social media, freelance writing, or marketing that makes use of social media for some other good or service you provide, you might experience all the struggles of a small business but feel left out of the jump-starts available for "bigger" small businesses. I like to think of us as micro-entrepreneurs -- too small to take on venture capital, not likely to get a bank loan for small businesses, but nevertheless hustling for paid work.  Read more >

  9. Senate Stalls "Don't Ask" AND DREAM Act. Will the Paycheck Fairness Act Pass?

    9/21/10 6:53pm by cynematic
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    Senators stall Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal

    Of the many bills up for a vote in the Senate, today's votes on two high-profile pieces of legislation succumbed to a Republican filibuster by narrow margins -- and a third bill of utmost importance to women in the workforce could face a vote in the next week.  Read more >

  10. Elizabeth Warren, Newly Appointed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    9/17/10 2:16pm by cynematic
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    Elizabeth Warren of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    If you read that your credit card has "two-cycle billing," would you know what that meant? Could you call your credit card issuer and contest the charge if you suspected it was unfairly applied? I'm decently educated, but I have to read these things three and four times to get the gist.  Read more >

cynematic

Full Name
cynematic
Member Since
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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