#master's project

[neragranic]

RE-POSTING THESE INDIVIDUALLY - Key Moment from my Master’s Project

Characters and environments are from my own IP, more detailed posts on my Millennial Tapestry tumblr

all art and characters belong to Nera Granic

[neragranic]

RE-POSTING THESE INDIVIDUALLY - Key Moment from my Master’s Project

Characters and environments are from my own IP, more detailed posts on my Millennial Tapestry tumblr

all art and characters belong to Nera Granic

[ankar93]

Focus areas of Interest

My main focus for now regarding my masters project is branding. Ever since a was a first year student creating simple forms using a grid system always fascinated me.

For me, it is really important to be able to communicate using simple forms that behind it have a bigger meaning. My strongest goal is to think more creatively by using simple forms to explain something dipper.

I believe that simplicity is the key to any visual symbol and can be applied to almost any area of design. My inspiration about this, comes mainly from the brand identities of the Olympic games. The design team in charge, can spend years evolving a project in order to express each country's cultural identity or a meaning behind each concept.

 In my opinion, a strong identity comes by taking advantage of the cultural history that each country has to offer. Usually something like that is used for the Olympic games thus forming a strong visual identity that is able to communicate with the visitors.

[konikslapka-blog1]

Proofing a physicist's Master's Progress Report and found the line "Python has a decent enough selection of modules designed for parallel processing." All I could focus on was "decent enough" and my It's-One-AM-And-I've-Been-Up-Since-Six brain chose the response of: "Decent enough? Are they tolerable you suppose but not handsome enough to tempt you? Are you in no mood to give consequence to modules that have been slighted by other programmers? You truly are the Mr Darcy of the Python world you know." THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T ASK ME TO HELP YOU AT ONE IN THE MORNING!

[sogeum-light]

DERP.

Ah, my dearest writer's block decided to bless me with its presence tonight. 

Process of writer's block: 

1. Type, type, type and realize nothing is good. 

2. Start deleting and end up with a blank page. 

3. Stare at the blank page. 

4. Scribble some ideas on a notepad. 

5. Execute the poorly-structured ideas from notepad onto Word.

6. Nope. 

7. Come to Tumblr to try to get that writing flow back —doesn't work. 

8. Ask myself why I bought coffee if I can't even think properly. 

9. Listen to Sam Smith. 

10. Go back to notepad and repeat #4. 

[ccboomer]

Academic-Minded Queer Tumblr!

Hello! My name is Sierra and I am currently working on my MA project, a 26 page research endeavor (ha, it sounds fancier now) that I want to write, focusing on the invisibility of "liminal" MOGAI/ queer folks** in Gay and Lesbian YA (trans, bi, intersex). If you would like to help me out, please keep reading! 

My project will examine the intersections of erasure found in young adult literature (YA lit) about MOGAI (marginalized orientations, genders allignments, and intersex) individuals. The project with aim to do # things: identify the erasure and exclusion in the LGBT community; the need for the emergence of the term MOGAI; and the way in which traditionally "liminal" MOGAI identities are erased in YA lit because of the system of publishing categorization, a system which was created with the historically exclusionary category of “gay and lesbian fiction.”

That being said! Because the paper is not very long, nor do I have a crapton of resources, I'm only going to be examining a few identities in YA lit. I'm planning on focusing on bi (my identity, therefore I feel most comfortable with it), trans (because the intersection of bi ladies and trans ladies cannot be ignored), and intersex.

I'm planning on using the Inheritance series by Malinda Lo to spotlight on bi ladies, Micah Grey series to spotlight intersex, and am looking for a ya book with a trans protagonist published by either a big ten publisher, or a mainstream (mass marketed) publisher. If you know a book or series that fits this description, please let me know! 

Also, if you notice anything that seems squicky or problematic about my project, please please please let me know! I am not perfect, and I am trying my best to merge social activism with academia because academia needs less cis straight white people talking about the (cis straight white) human condition. 

**I'm using the term "liminal MOGAI/ liminal queer folks" specifically to talk about the way in which identities which exist outside binaries (straight/gay, male/female gender, male/female sex) are automatically less visible, because they are appropriated by those who fall into those binaries, either purposefully or not. If you think this phrase could be changed, or is still problematic, please let me know! I plan on explaining how, despite being perceived as "liminal", the identities are not liminal, because liminality assumes a binary, but explaining how that perception of liminality leads to erasure. 

[dj-nobiwan]

BGSD Tuesday

Yesterday I got my daughter enrolled for high school (ugh, I'm old) and did the paperwork the government makes you do at least twice a year because Republicans hate helping people (SNAP recertification time). Today I got my son registered in a fraction of the time. Next year we're going all of us together on the second day.

This morning I've put in all the relevant school dates into Google calendar, for myself and the kids. We all start school on the 18th. 

Today, and for the rest of this week and next week, I am focusing on my master's project (the Art of Cyberwar wiki). I'm doing most of the writing in Word, because then I know how much I have and it's so much easier to edit. It is, right now, about 40 pages long. Many of the chapters have nearly nothing in them, and I'm just not going to be happy unless I can get the thing to 60 pages at least, probably closer to 70. I also have a 20 page analytical paper that goes with it. 

I feel like I haven't gotten nearly enough work done on this over the summer, and now I'm going to kick ass and take no names because I don't have time for you. A lot of other things happened and they are important, too, but I seriously must knuckle down. 

Oh, and I have a job interview tomorrow morning for a dispatcher position for the city. I'm actually pretty jazzed about that, it's good pay doing something that matters in the world, and I can go part-time until after I graduate. It's also public sector, so I can use it towards the federal loan forgiveness program. Because my student loans would make Tony Stark gasp in horror.