SOC HUM EM Emilia C Feminism, Consumerism, and the Worship of “Choice” There is a common refrain in feminist circles about how women should not be forced to cook, clean, and raise childern, but that if they…
SOC LIF HUM EM Emilia C Call-out Feminism Made Me Bad at Relationships, bell hooks Feminism Reminded Me How to Love Feminist thought was a lifeline for my teenaged self. I had spent my childhood thinking that I was growing up to be a Person, someone to be…
SOC EM Emilia C You Live in Colombia. Do People Do a Lot of Drugs There? TLDR: 13% of Colombians have tried illicit drugs at least once in their lifetimes (Source), while 50% of Americans have (Source).
HUM LIF EM Emilia C The Case for Having Students Write Before They Outline (and the Confession that I Always Did) I work in a field (English teaching) that loves to have students turn in outlines before writing, but I have to confess that I couldn’t…
SOC LIF SPR HUM EM Emilia C Stop Congratulating Me for Raising Feminist Men “You’re doing such important work.” “Raising boys who respect women is feminism.” “Raising empathetic boys is so important.”
HUM EM Emilia C What I’ve Done to Get the Most out of My Preply Arabic Lessons (as an English teacher) I recently took up Arabic after about a ten year hiatus. I am about an A2, and I take one lesson per week. This is not a review of my…
HUM EM Emilia C Why I Vet Guests to my Interculturality Classes I frequently get suggestions regarding people I should invite to classes I teach, specifically classes with an element of interculturality…
AI EM Emilia C Cinco razones por las que no te entendieron en inglés aunque lo hayas dicho bien (y qué hacer para… Soy profesora de inglés desde 2007 y llevo ya una década en Colombia, viviendo en gran parte en español. Hablo y he estudiado varios…
LIF HUM EM Emilia C The Overglorification of Questioning I want to briefly question the glorification of questioning. Many adults recall fondly that they were children who “questioned everything.”…
SPT EM Emilia C Bogotá is not Chaotic I’ve lived in Bogota for about ten years. It is a city that is often described as chaotic by tourists and locals alike, and I am here to…
LIF SPR EM Emilia C It Is Almost as If I Have to Be the Change I Wish to See I don’t know if it is turning forty or (step)parenting for half a decade, but recently, I have had to come face to face with how little I…
